Religulous Movie Review

After working out and watching the first half of Monday Night Football last night, I decided to go watch Religulous at the Regal Cinemas on 7th & Pike in Seattle. I tossed my Trade Joe’s Peanut Butter Filled Pretzels in my backpack and trotted on downtown.

Religulous is a movie directed by Larry Charles starring Bill Maher, the comedian. Larry Charles was the director of Borat and filmed Religulous in the same way: Maher simply went around the world interviewing and talking to people about their various religious beliefs, although many of them did not know that they were being made fun of. Religulous manages to find a variety of interesting people to interview about their religions; from a senior priest at the Vatican to Senator Mark Pryor from Arkansas to Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda (a man who believes he is the second coming of Christ and has over 100,000 followers). Bill Maher takes a friendly approach to all of his interview subjects, asking them questions and allowing their bungling answers to show the terrifying foolishness of organized religion.

I STRONGLY recommend that everyone go see Religulous with an open mind. You should know going in though that Bill Maher is poking fun at the expense of many religions and you may be offended… or you may even leave the theater with a different opinion on religion. I challenge my religious readers to go watch this movie with an open mind: you have attended church services several hours a week for your entire lives so one hour and a half long movie won’t be enough to reverse all that indoctrination, right?

Religulous was a moderately funny movie to me, but brought up some very good points on problems with religion. I applaud Bill Maher and his giant pair for getting up on a global stage and publicly declaring what most agnostics and atheists think: Religion is a fraud carried on by human charlatans who are causing massive harm to humanity.

My guess is that most religious people who watch Religulous will laugh at how ridiculous all of the other religions are and will get angry when their own religion gets lampooned. Muslims may even try to blow up poor Bill Maher.

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