Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Religulous

I hate to think of myself standing in a cemetery wearing vintage sunglasses and a veil made of polyester spiderwebs.
That's another odd statement to add to my collection, up on my wall with all my eccentricities; instead of the degrees that someone should display.
I'm not old enough for degrees, I'm playing dress-up in other people's realities; pretending to be some great intellectual.
Nuff said.
Now about religion (interesting documentary, I recommend it; although I don't have the authority to recommend anything).
In the film Bill Maher (renowned comedian) travels around the world asking questions about religion.
Throughout the film he tries to prove how ridiculous religion can be.
Parts of the film I disliked or didn't agree with, such as religion being completely unfounded.
He didn't focus much on Eastern religion, the primary focus of the first half of the movie were different sects of Christianity.
The rest of the movie dealt with Islam and Judaism, with a small part about the Church of Cannabis in the Netherlands.
It was interesting, however I disagree with his view that Islam is a purely violent religion; if you study it, you realise that it's mostly just people who twist it into something violent.
I also disliked that he left out Paganism, Buddhism, Hinduism, anything other than the three monotheistic religions.
Though he makes a few references to ancient Gods from various parts of the world.
At one point we even get to see Bill Maher smoke a joint in Amsterdam.
I learned a lot from the film, especially about Muslims in the Netherlands and beliefs of the Mormon Church.
There are many interesting people who are interviewed for the movie, such as a Puerto Rican man claiming to be the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Gay men, Scientists, a former Satanic Priest are a few of the people interviewed.
So go watch it, Bill Maher adds his humour through the entire movie; I laughed a lot, I promise you'll enjoy it (and hopefully learn something).
Fun fact: 93% of Scientists are Atheist or Agnostic.

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