Religulous (2008)

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Beautiful, moving film.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Two groups support anti religion materials in west media 1. East dictators that don't want military intervention in their countries to stop their bloodshed. So they should kill consciousness in west. 2. Those who think, it is good for Science. I tell them My bully dumb & godless brother ruin my life. Two innovation (one of them could stop med. malpractice) will be buried with me (cancer in a third world country) stronger brain means smaller muscle

How did I never heard about this gem before? A friend that knows I am a convinced atheist told me I had to watch this and that I would like it. 8 years after the making of Religulous I finally had someone that told me about it and oh was I pleased! I literally had a smile on my face from beginning till the end. Bill Maher asks the perfect questions to the believers of any stupid religion and their answers are just hilarious. The fact that you can see that they know they are wrong, when Bill Maher replies to their answers with a silly but true answer or question is just hilarious. This is by far the best documentary I ever saw on any subject. It's not about getting a proof about the existence of a God, but just the opposite. It's about making the people see they are scammed since centuries and they continue being scammed now. Most of them actually know it but are just too afraid of death you could make them make believe whatever you want. Some are just eternal idiots that will never change their mind about religions, but those are also not the smartest puppy out of the litter let's say. If you are like me a convinced atheist you will adore this movie. If you are a believer of whatever religion, you will be or ashamed you ever believed in those nonsenses, or it will open your eyes and you will change your mind, or you will be scandalized and will continue being a dumb sheep of society.

Most of the questions were directed towards people who rely on their beliefs to take them past the challenges that are offered to them the next day. In that sense, what I see is a set of people who are being deliberately questioned and provoked.Then there is this belief that one person says he doubts everything and is so certain that there is no god. Not that there is no need to venture into "that question", but hasn't it become fashionable now a days to be so certain about what you say (judgmental) and still be not sure about what it takes to solve those problems.If Bill needs proof of why people believe in got, please walk into an Intensive Care Unit, or to the gutters where the less fortunate live and try solving their problems. To which, he can always say, "That's not my problem" or that "They deserve it" or that "I pay my taxes". What about the soldiers on the field. When they stare death in the face or as is common today, when death creeps on them in the form of a suicide bomber, what do you think they need most? What about the people who are on the verge of having their homes and houses torn apart. Why are so many people writing about the disparity between the rich and the poor? Do you have an answer Bill? To which you can always say, does God give an answer to them. Which leads me to think about what Einstein said "We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them".There are also a lot of factual errors in the way he portrays Krishna. He was not a carpenter and neither was he baptized. As for Mithra and his birth date, no where in the bible is it written he was born on the 25th of December. Why then is there this pointless debate about the dates. And on checking about Horus, I find nothing that's similar, except for someone who wrote the stories up. You could say the same thing about the bible and about the whole stories, but then you are as guilty as those who you accuse of plagiarism.All the same, there are points we can always agree to, which is, there are people who exploit others in the name of religion and you need know about them. On this one aspect, I do agree with Bill.

Brilliant work by Bill Maher. When I first heard about this, I was expecting a boring documentary featuring a lot of debates but Bill Maher has done a great job in making it both funny and thought provoking at the same time. Not only does he clearly refute their claims, he also does it in a way that makes it both hilarious and interesting.The documentary exposes the blindness induced in the common mass by religion and thereby points out why it is harmful.This documentary is a must watch for everyone. This movie is not just a mockery of faith, instead it is about empowering the average person to think, to question ideas and beliefs rather than blindly following it and also to show empathy and compassion towards others even if they are slightly different rather than condemning them with a black and white definition of good and bad just because it is said so in the religious texts.So, to conclude this movie is mainly against the social evils that is going on in the name of faith which hurt not only other humans but also the planet as a whole.