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[Hey Hey]

Anyone seen this?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1173494/

[Lindsay]

Comic Bill Maher's "Religulous" Questions Foundation & Power Structure of Religion
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CB, do you write as an atheist?

BTW, I saw Bill Maher's "Religulous". I found it very amusing and no threat to unitheism. More of a vindication. I agree with the following:

From early reviews, it's clear Maher isn't denigrating religion, nor casting his own beliefs or lack thereof, on those who faithfully worship a deity. According to Maher, his film core mission is to question why people do the things they do in God's name.

Why do they hate others who don't attend the same church?
Why do terrorist groups flourish claiming to be doing God's work?

These observations may be scathing in their content, but also hilariously delivered. After all, Maher is first and foremost a comedian. Comics can always get away with more than most of us. From Lenny Bruce to Richard Pryor to Howard Stern, agile comic minds concoct deliriously funny bits from the mundane. They're all the more rib tickling, because they're culled from our lives and the culture at large. Religion is certainly fair game, since it touches all of us on some level.

In today's world of fractured belief systems where brother and sister of differing faiths quarrel, where religious extremism has shed so much blood many simply accept it as the way things are, people must talk about what can be done. I don't agree with everything Bill Maher says, but I'm excited to see someone ask the real big questions in such a big way like Religulous.

If we all were brave enough to ask more questions of our political leaders, our religious leaders and of ourselves, we'd have more answers. At the very least, we'd not expect to get honest answers from those who may have hidden agendas and motivations, which compel them to ensure a constituency or a flock is kept complacent, silent and unquestioning.