Rating: R
Movie Release Date: October 3, 2008
DVD Release Date: February 17, 2009
Plot 411: Bill Maher travels the world and questions religion in all its forms.
Review: Bill Maher is pretty irreverent in this documentary that takes him around the world. He interviews people from different religions - Catholics, Christians, Muslims, Mormans, etc. - and asks them about their beliefs. He questions the role of religion and its place in an educated and logical society. Most of it is pretty funny if you don't take relgion too seriously. However, if you're a conservative anything, you'll probably be deeply offended. I found it interesting that Maher is half Jewish and half Catholic but one of the biggest skeptics and doubters out there. It seems that most people who are religious early in life are the biggest skeptics in adulthood. The doc showed that all religions are pretty whack and basically used by people to accomplish their own ends or explain the unexplainable. The fact that so many people can believe completely in any one thing is pretty amazing, if that one thing is not religion. If it is religion, no one questions the illogical nature of it all. Weird.
Watch It: For an extended comedy routine that pokes fun at practically everyone, especially fanatics.
Skip It: If you're quite fine being devout to any particular religion. Many of y'all don't have a great sense of humor.
Movie Release Date: October 3, 2008
DVD Release Date: February 17, 2009
Plot 411: Bill Maher travels the world and questions religion in all its forms.
Review: Bill Maher is pretty irreverent in this documentary that takes him around the world. He interviews people from different religions - Catholics, Christians, Muslims, Mormans, etc. - and asks them about their beliefs. He questions the role of religion and its place in an educated and logical society. Most of it is pretty funny if you don't take relgion too seriously. However, if you're a conservative anything, you'll probably be deeply offended. I found it interesting that Maher is half Jewish and half Catholic but one of the biggest skeptics and doubters out there. It seems that most people who are religious early in life are the biggest skeptics in adulthood. The doc showed that all religions are pretty whack and basically used by people to accomplish their own ends or explain the unexplainable. The fact that so many people can believe completely in any one thing is pretty amazing, if that one thing is not religion. If it is religion, no one questions the illogical nature of it all. Weird.
Watch It: For an extended comedy routine that pokes fun at practically everyone, especially fanatics.
Skip It: If you're quite fine being devout to any particular religion. Many of y'all don't have a great sense of humor.
2 comments:
too funny, but i also do that "bless me Father, for i have sinned.. it's been 40 years since my last confession".. joke.. it goes on..
"soooo, how do you want it? by decade, category, or specific sin? how 'bout if we do it the other way.. i didn't kill anyone, pretty much everything else, i did at least once"..
oh, and the other question i like to ask is, "what's the big secret?" why not have signs by the road with daily instructions? and when you say that to even marginally religious people, they're just baffled that you don't seem to get whole blind-faith-in-a-mystery-deity value proposition..
the problem with me listening to Bill Maher is that it's like listening to myself.. i already know what he's going to say.. at any point, does he just come out and say, "you people are friggin' nuts?"
see, the funny part about religion for me is two things.. one, that i believe in Some sort of higher power, although not in any anthropomorphic kind of way..
and the other is that each religion has as one of its tenets that theirs is the "only way" to get to heaven.. all the others are going straight to hell..
in Cat-lick grammar school, they told us that our non-Cat-lick friends were going to hell.. we laughed, "but Sister, these are really good people... no, Sister, you're not listening, they're better people than we are".. "doesn't matter, not going with"..
oh, and for babies who die before they're baptized, there's limbo.. but since only pre-baptismal babies get to go there, who's watching the babies?
oh, and purgatory is like hell, only temporary.. like what kind of temporary.. so, how hot and how long? like a really hot stove for like a minute? *touches gingerly* ahhh, oh shit!.. oops, another 15 min. on the stove!
Maher is right.. religion is a joke.. and a bad joke at that.. but don't say that too loud..
like God needs to franchise, and if hesheit did, would pick those a-holes to run the place..
don't get me started.. ha ha love Bill Maher.. his take on romance is pretty funny, too..
Yeah, the limbo for babies. I never did get that one.
Maher brings up a good point about how some people are only religious "just in case" religion is right. It's like they're trying to cover all their bases.
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