This was a great documentary film! I've never been a huge fan of Bill Mahr but he did a good job with this very touchy subject matter. I was brought up in a religious (Baptist) home but I was never really commited to the religion because I had questions like the ones presented in this movie when I was younger. I couldn't understand how people believed some of the stories in the bible, like talking snakes, & burning bushes, yet stories about Santa Claus & the Tooth Fairy were ridiculous to them. Was that wind that made me smile God/Allah/Muhammad/etc. or was it just, in fact, wind? Everyone has questions about religion, about the obvious "gaps" and "stories" in religious texts. This movie explores some of those questions. Watch it! It's not bias or blasphemous, although Mahr is very cynical. The movie IS, however, thought provoking! Don't watch it coming in with a strong opinion, just watch it, listen to the arguments, and think for yourself after.
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Bill Maher interviews some of religion's oddest adherents. Muslims, Jews and Christians of many kinds pass before his jaundiced eye. Maher goes to a Creationist Museum in Kentucky, which shows that dinosaurs and people lived at the same time 5000 years ago. He talks to truckers at a Truckers' Chapel. (Sign outside: "Jesus love you.") He goes to a theme park called Holy Land in Florida. He speaks to a rabbi in league with Holocaust deniers. He talks to a Muslim musician who preaches hatred of Jews. Maher finds the unlikeliest of believers and, in a certain Vatican priest, he even finds an unlikely skeptic.
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Way to go writing about a controversial topic, especially with us living in the bible belt. I felt similar as a kid going to church every Sunday. I definitely had my doubts.
ReplyDeletehaha i'm happy to know I wasn't the only one! you know if you question religion here and you get what I call the S.E.O.D-Side Eye Of Death aka O_o lol
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