Religulous by Larry Charles (2008)
11 October 2008Damn I am so far behind on my reviews! Ha, need to start catching up, and soon. This film is Bill Maher’s pain against religion in the modern age. A documentary, but very slanted, because Maher admits to not believing at all in religion, but the thing he is he brings facts to the table that many of the people he talks to are not aware of. I really enjoyed this film, and just think it is too bad because the people who really should see this film, will never see it, because of who made it. And in fact it is a well done, and funny and enjoyable film, and Maher does not just go after one religion here, but them all.
Some of my personal highlights in the film are Bill talking two Vatican priests, both of whom seem to be the most reasonable people he talks to. One is a Vatican Astronomer and talks about how modern science didn’t exist when the bible was created, so you can’t take it literally. And another is a priest who laughs at people who take the bible as absolute fact, and not a collection of moral stories.
There are some scary things too, like the Jesus land in florida, the man who is making a museum that shows that the Earth is only 5000 years old, and that man lived with Dinosaurs, and even worse is the Arksansas Congressman who admits he might believe that Earth was crated 5000 years before, and admits they don’t have an IQ test to get in Congress. Scary!
Maher travels the world, talking to Muslims, and Jews and Christians, and tries to get them to explain some basic things to him, as he points out facts, like Christianity paralleling earlier religions, Jesus being much like an Egyptian story in the book of the dead. And another of my favorite moments when he talks about the founding father’s disdain for religion, which makes the current climate so much scarier.
This film at the least should open a dialogue about the current trend of religion and politics intermarrying, when they are supposed to be separate, and when we have presidents who believe they have a divine calling, the world can be a very scary place.
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