Religulous (2008): Bill Maher's take on the current state of world religion. (7.7)
Director: Larry Charles
Stars: Bill Maher
So, this is a critical and humorous look at the religion and its place in today's society. Interestingly, it doesn't look at two major eastern religions Hinduism and Buddhism. Well, fair enough, today's western society is mostly concerned with Christianity (with all its permutations), Judaism and Islam. My problem with movies like this is that they all try to find the contradictions within the religious texts and teachings, and try to disprove certain things. No, that's the wrong tactic. Take a giant step away from the faith and religion as a concept. Look at how absolutely bloody stupid the whole thing is and point that out. Actually, this move does do that to a certain degree and that's why I am giving it a notch higher rating that I would have otherwise. Yes, at some point in the past, there was a place for faith systems. But today, those fantasy systems do more harm than good. It will take another thousand years before the whole concept goes out of fashion, but movies like this will help. My Rating: 7.0
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