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I urge all religious peoplePlease watch this documentary/film.
Bill Maher - Religulous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL...&v=xlTwwr-WEVo
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Re: I urge all religious peopleIt's very funny, but also scary when you realised these people are actually out there(Original post by Design_Me_A_Tom)
I'll watch this later today, I like Bill Maher!
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Re: I urge all religious people'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.'(Original post by chickenonsteroids)
Why don't you summarise it for people?
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Re: I urge all religious peopleOnly watched half of it, but to me this makes me confirm my suspicion that religious people are stupid and willing to believe in anything. I found it unbelievable what some people are certain is true, also I have never failed to find flaws in a religious persons reason they believe in God.(Original post by teek)
Please watch this documentary/film.
Bill Maher - Religulous
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Re: I urge all religious peopleI think my favourite part is when that guy says 'you don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the senate'(Original post by Sheep)
lol I watched this like a year ago, it's pretty hilarious
it's not the sort of video to convert people to atheism really
it's more just for laughing at how ridiculous religion is
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Re: I urge all religious peopleI watched this a year or two ago, and actually found it pretty funny. Some of the points he makes are fairly convincing, although you should take it all with a pinch of salt. He deliberately picks out nuts and crazies to emphasise his points, which may be representative of some towns in deep South USA, but isn't exactly true of the wider world. Also, Bill Maher is a well known cynic, so he can be quite demeaning towards people he doesn't agree with. Nonetheless, a funny film, and probably worth the watch.(Original post by teek)
Please watch this documentary/film.
Bill Maher - Religulous
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Re: I urge all religious peopleyeah ahaha(Original post by teek)
I think my favourite part is when that guy says 'you don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the senate'
I was in tears
I also loved the part from 19:10 to 19:30 on youtube -
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Re: I urge all religious peopleIt's not a documentary, it's a comic piss-take of the most retarded of the religious population.
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Re: I urge all religious peopleThe people are still real - that's what makes it scary at the same time! And its not just the people in it, I mean for example they somehow got enough funding to build a $27 million (if i remember right) creationist 'museum'. Now that is frightening,(Original post by Alpharius)
It's not a documentary, it's a comic piss-take of the most retarded of the religious population.
Very funny, but also scary that these people exist.
Documentary may be slightly the wrong word though -
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Re: I urge all religious peopleMeh, the documentary is meh insofar as I'm concerned. He deliberately hunts down and provokes the most extreme religious people he can find (he didn't even tell them he was the interviewer most of the time, just walked in and they either had the choice of getting filmed refusing to talk to him or realise they're about to be deliberatly provoked for a show designed to mock them.)
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Re: I urge all religious peopleI admit, some are extreme, but others, whilst extreme, still hold some reasonably widespread, (within their respective religious communities) ideas.(Original post by big-bang-theory)
Meh, the documentary is meh insofar as I'm concerned. He deliberately hunts down and provokes the most extreme religious people he can find (he didn't even tell them he was the interviewer most of the time, just walked in and they either had the choice of getting filmed refusing to talk to him or realise they're about to be deliberatly provoked for a show designed to mock them.)
Some crazy people have some crazy views, it's not really a damning comment on religion as a whole.
Plus, interviews such as the one with the vatican priest, and the astronomer, I think are also really interesting -
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Re: I urge all religious peopleI wouldn't say it was the most retarded of the religious population, I saw it more as just the average religious people(Original post by Alpharius)
It's not a documentary, it's a comic piss-take of the most retarded of the religious population.
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Re: I urge all religious peopleYeah but masquerading the documentary as a serious look at religion or something particularly revelatory (woot there are some crazy communities that don't integrate properly with the world around them, who knew?) isn't exactly accurate.(Original post by teek)
I admit, some are extreme, but others, whilst extreme, still hold some reasonably widespread, (within their respective religious communities) ideas.
Plus, interviews such as the one with the vatican priest, and the astronomer, I think are also really interesting
Then I would suggest you actually talk to some religious people you haven't found online.(Original post by Sheep)
I wouldn't say it was the most retarded of the religious population, I saw it more as just the average religious people
