Religulous

**Bearsy** · 09-16-2008 11:48 PM

Known for his stance against religion, Bill Maher's views on the various world religions are explored as he travels to numerous religious destinations, such as Jerusalem, the Vatican, and Salt Lake City, interviewing believers from a variety of backgrounds and groups, including Jews for Jesus, Muslims, polygamists, Satanists, Hasidic scholars and even Rael of the Raelian Movement.
In the trailer and documentary Maher also interviews research neuroscientist Andrew Newberg, MD, (author of Why We Believe What We Believe) who brain-scans people at the University of Pennsylvania as they pray, meditate and speak in tongues.
Maher admitted to lying about himself and his film to obtain interviews: "We never, ever, used my name. We never told anybody it was me who was going to do the interviews. We even had a fake title for the film. We called it 'A Spiritual Journey.' It didn't work everywhere. We went to Salt Lake City, but no one would let us film there at all."

Although I think Bill Maher is an egotistical asshole, I'm gonna go see this, cause it's nice to see a movie take religion head on.

:peace:

**Sandform** · 09-17-2008 01:17 AM

Been there done that.

Oct 3rd yay...

Monday will be fun too.

**Neruo** · 09-18-2008 07:53 PM

I am looking forward to that movie. Bill is a pretty funny guy.

**Patrick** · 09-18-2008 07:59 PM

Awesome. Only thing is, very few religious people will watch this movie.

Maybe I'll take my deeply religious friends, and tell them it's a movie reinforcing the idea of religion.

**Sornaensis** · 09-18-2008 09:25 PM

Buy one ticket to Religulous and get your complementary Jesus Light Switch!

**SomeDreamer** · 09-18-2008 09:48 PM

haha, looks awesome

**Neruo** · 09-18-2008 10:24 PM

Originally Posted by Seismosaur

Buy one ticket to Religulous and get your complementary Jesus Light Switch!

Didn't I post that picture a few days ago?

It is one extremely awesome picture

The girl is even looking angry, because Jesus only wants to play doctor with little Timmy.

**Sornaensis** · 09-19-2008 09:22 PM

Probably.

It is awesome. I found it on my desktop yesterday so I uploaded it to FileFront

**GestaltAlteration** · 09-19-2008 09:41 PM

Originally Posted by Seismosaur

Buy one ticket to Religulous and get your complementary Jesus Light Switch!

Ugh. That's ridiculously messed up.

**Sisyphus50** · 09-20-2008 12:08 PM

I hope there is more interest in The Scene for bootleg copies of this to be circulating than Ben Stein's piece of propaganda crap. These kinds of political/social films don't get played by cinemas in my city, so downloading is really my only alternative to seeing them until they come out on DVD.

Bill Maher can go over the line occasionally, but I think he's got the right idea about dealing with the increasing religiosity of the American media. He just doesn't take any bullshit.

Originally Posted by Bill Maher

I believe in God, I just don't believe in religion. Religion is a beaurocracy between man and God

**Neruo** · 09-20-2008 05:38 PM

Originally Posted by GestaltAlteration

Ugh. That's ridiculously messed up.

I think jesus looks pretty hot on it.

**EchoSun13** · 09-20-2008 06:22 PM

I liked how they put under the fat guys name, Ex Jew for jesus....

**Sandform** · 09-21-2008 06:16 PM

Was farenheit 9/11 any good?

**Bearsy** · 09-21-2008 06:57 PM

Yeah it was alright.

Better than Sicko, but not as good as Bowling For Columbine...(imo)

**Serkat** · 09-22-2008 12:24 AM

Anything with Michael Moore in it immediately loses all credibility.

**RockNRoller123** · 09-22-2008 02:33 AM

Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick

Awesome. Only thing is, very few religious people will watch this movie.

I'm very religious and I'd love to go see it!

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