Bill Maher’s “Religulous” is set to release this coming October. The host of “Real Time” ridicules every major religious faith, according to this article from FoxNews. According to this column, Maher seeks to make the point that, “that the world would be a better place without any religions, that wars would be eliminated and there would be universal understanding.”
Right.
Feel free to check out the trailer to the film here, and visit Maher’s parody site set up to complement the film, Disbeliefnet.com by clicking the link. I’m not sure if I’m up for seeing this film as of yet. I’m sure Maher has found plenty of fodder across the religious spectrum which makes for easy jokes. I mean, as a Christian I can’t help but laugh at us sometimes.
I’m sure Maher’s film will appeal to a broad swath of cynics and skeptics who already concur with Maher’s viewpoint, and who are already extremely familiar with tired lines of argumentation as to why religion is bad and how secular humanism would clearly lead us to the utopia that we’ve longed after for all of human history. I don’t expect his film to make a killing, or a dent, in public discourse–at least not for the better.
I’ve heard him talk about his opinions on Leno and O’Brien. I was not impressed with his ill-informed logic. I’m keeping my $10.