Religulous (2008)
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- R
- 1h 41min
- Documentary, Comedy
- 03 Oct 2008 (USA)
- Movie
Bill Maher's take on the current state of world religion.
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Awards:
- 2 wins & 1 nomination.
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Cast
| Bill Maher | ... |
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Tal Bachman | ... |
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Jonathan Boulden | ... |
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Steven Burg | ... |
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| Francis Collins | ... |
Self - Director, National Institutes of Health
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George Coyne | ... |
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(as Father George Coyne PhD)
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Benjamin Creme | ... |
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Jeremiah Cummings | ... |
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Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda | ... |
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Fatima Elatik | ... |
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Yahuda Etzion | ... |
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Reginald Foster | ... |
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(as Father Reginald Foster)
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Mohamed Junas Gaffar | ... |
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Bill Gardiner | ... |
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| Ted Haggard | ... |
Self (archiveFootage)
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Rabbi Halperin | ... |
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Ken Ham | ... |
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| Dean Hamer | ... |
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Mohammad Hourani | ... |
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| Jeffrey Hunter | ... |
Jesus (archiveFootage)
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| Nelson Leigh | ... |
Jesus (archiveFootage)
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Julie Maher | ... |
Self
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Kathy Maher | ... |
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Aki Nawaz | ... |
Self
(as Propa-Gandhi)
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| Andrew Newberg | ... |
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(as Dr. Andrew Newberg MD)
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| Fred Phelps | ... |
Self (archiveFootage)
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Mark Pryor | ... |
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Shmuel Strauss | ... |
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Ray Suarez | ... |
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Jimmy Turkmani | ... |
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Ferre van Beveren | ... |
Self
(as Reverend Ferre van Beveren)
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Yisroel Dovid Weiss | ... |
Self
(as Rabbi Dovid Weiss)
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John Westcott | ... |
Self
(as Pastor John Westcott)
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| Geert Wilders | ... |
Self
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| Jim Bakker | ... |
Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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| Osama bin Laden | ... |
Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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Kaya Bousquet | ... |
Model (uncredited)
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| George W. Bush | ... |
Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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| Kirk Cameron | ... |
Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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| Johnny Carson | ... |
Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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| Larry Charles | ... |
Self (uncredited)
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| Tom Cruise | ... |
Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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| Jerry Falwell | ... |
Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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| Billy Gibbons | ... |
Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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| Charlton Heston | ... |
George Taylor (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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| Dusty Hill | ... |
Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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Benny Hinn | ... |
Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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| Mike Huckabee | ... |
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| Kim Hunter | ... |
Zira (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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| Michael Jackson | ... |
Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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| Bishop Don Magic Juan | ... |
Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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| Larry King | ... |
Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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| Joe Lieberman | ... |
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| Marilyn Manson | ... |
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| John McCain | ... |
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| Pope John Paul II | ... |
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| Elvis Presley | ... |
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| Prince | ... |
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| Oral Roberts | ... |
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| Pat Robertson | ... |
Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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| George C. Scott | ... |
Abraham (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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| Gene Simmons | ... |
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| Britney Spears | ... |
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| Paul Stanley | ... |
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| John Travolta | ... |
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| Theo van Gogh | ... |
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| Max von Sydow | ... |
Jesus (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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| Ye | ... |
Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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Directed by
| Larry Charles | ||
Written by
| Bill Maher | ... | (written by) (uncredited) |
Produced by
| Jesse Johnston | ... | executive producer |
| Leila Lak | ... | field producer: England |
| Alexandra Lambrinidis | ... | associate producer |
| Bill Maher | ... | producer |
| Kevin O'Donnell | ... | line producer |
| Flavia Oertwig | ... | field producer: Italy |
| Lisa Rudin | ... | associate producer |
| Charlie Siskel | ... | executive producer |
| Jonah Smith | ... | producer |
| Alon Tuval | ... | field producer: Israel |
| Palmer West | ... | producer |
Cinematography by
| Anthony Hardwick | ... | director of photography |
Editing by
| Jeff Groth | ||
| Christian Kinnard | ||
| Jeffrey M. Werner | ||
Editorial Department
| Thomas J. Cabela | ... | assistant editor (as Tom Cabela) |
| David Egan | ... | first assistant editor |
| Evan Goldstein | ... | post-production coordinator |
| John Klos | ... | final cut pro systems support: Big Time Picture Company |
| Asim Matin | ... | assistant editor |
| Jeff Mee | ... | first assistant editor |
| Aaron Peak | ... | colorist / on-line editor |
| Silja Tõnisson | ... | first assistant editor (as Silja Tonisson) |
| Leroy Wolf | ... | color timer |
| Mike Ford | ... | post-production associate (uncredited) |
| Micky Hohl | ... | post-production assistant (uncredited) |
| Neil W. Smith | ... | digital intermediate supervisor: Hollywood-DI (uncredited) |
Production Management
| Chelsea Barnard | ... | field supervisor |
| Tommaso Colognese | ... | production supervisor: Italy |
| Craig Conolly | ... | unit production manager (as Craig J. Conolly) |
| Jan Diederen | ... | field supervisor: The Netherlands |
| Brad Goodman | ... | post-production supervisor (as Bradley M. Goodman) |
| Kevin Kolovich | ... | production supervisor: England |
| Alexandra Lambrinidis | ... | field supervisor |
| Mary Prendergast | ... | post-production supervisor |
| Charlie Siskel | ... | unit production manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
| Craig Conolly | ... | first assistant director (as Craig J. Conolly) |
| Charlie Siskel | ... | first assistant director |
| Dale Stern | ... | first assistant director (as Dale S. Stern) |
Sound Department
| Jeremy Brill | ... | sound mixer: additional photography |
| Rick Camara | ... | re-recording mixer |
| John Cannon | ... | first assistant sound editor |
| Jason George | ... | supervising sound editor |
| Scott Harber | ... | sound mixer |
| Geoffrey G. Rubay | ... | re-recording mixer / supervising sound editor |
| James Wright | ... | sound consultant: Dolby (as Jim Wright) |
| James Bailey | ... | foley artist (uncredited) |
| Fabrizio Donati | ... | audio restorer (uncredited) |
Visual Effects by
| Scott M. Davids | ... | visual effects & graphics supervisor: Yard VFX (as Scott Davids) |
| Jalal Jemison | ... | digital compositor: Yard VFX / graphics animator: Yard VFX |
| Benjamin Locke | ... | graphics animator: Yard VFX / main title animator: Yard VFX |
Camera and Electrical Department
| Anthony Hardwick | ... | camera operator |
| Ryotaro Kinno | ... | first assistant camera (as Ryo Kinino) |
| Mark Schwartzbard | ... | camera operator |
| David Mickler | ... | camera operator: behind the scenes (uncredited) |
| Sam Moon | ... | camera operator: "c" camera: England (uncredited) |
| Owen A. Smith | ... | camera operator (uncredited) |
Costume and Wardrobe Department
| Jason Alper | ... | stylist: England |
Location Management
| Alon Farago | ... | location manager: Israel |
| Aaron Millar | ... | location manager |
Music Department
| Neil Cross | ... | composer: additional music |
| Michael Dittrick | ... | music editor |
| Richard Henderson | ... | music consultant |
| Chris Robertson | ... | music clearance: Diamond Time |
| Ben Zales | ... | assistant music editor |
Transportation Department
| Lori Chavez | ... | transportation coordinator |
| Eli 'Kiko' Cohen | ... | transportation coordinator: Israel |
| Jeff Hyland | ... | driver |
| Tom Jenkins | ... | driver |
| Shalom Kleiman | ... | driver: Israel |
| Gianfranco Renzoni | ... | driver: Italy |
| Meir Tabcznik | ... | driver: Israel |
| Massimiliano Taglioni | ... | driver: Italy (as Massimilano Taglioni) |
| Jared Robbins Transpoman | ... | transportation captain (as Jared Robbins) |
Additional Crew
| Fouad Abughosh | ... | field coordinator: Israel |
| Robyn Adams | ... | researcher |
| Giosué Arcuri | ... | production security |
| Chelsea Barnard | ... | researcher |
| Bhanu Bhatnagar | ... | production assistant: England |
| Roberta Brodsky | ... | field coordinator |
| Cara Casey | ... | field coordinator |
| Sophie Charles | ... | researcher |
| Kate Coe | ... | archival researcher |
| Michelle Cornelius | ... | assistant: Mr. Maher |
| Peter Dally | ... | international legal contracts |
| Classietta Davis-Foreman | ... | field coordinator (as Classietta Davis) |
| Mike Diaz | ... | production assistant |
| Jan Diederen | ... | researcher: The Netherlands |
| Tal Fiala | ... | account executive |
| Amiran Gicelter | ... | international legal contracts |
| Max Gottlieb | ... | production insurance: Frankel & Associates |
| Alan Grodin | ... | legal services: Weissmann, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman, Grodin & Evall |
| Octavia Hartland | ... | production assistant: England |
| Gill Havivi | ... | production security |
| David Lawrence Herrmann | ... | production assistant (as David Hermann) |
| Lauren A Jackson | ... | travel coordinator (as Lauren Jackson) |
| Mano Janssen | ... | international legal contracts |
| Armand Killan | ... | international legal contracts |
| Mary Knowles | ... | booker |
| Dalit Koren | ... | production secretary: Israel |
| Calum Latham | ... | production assistant: England |
| Anjani Mandavia | ... | legal services: Weissmann, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman, Grodin & Evall |
| David Mickler | ... | production assistant |
| Mark Monto | ... | security |
| Massimiliano Mostardini | ... | international legal contracts |
| Shannon Murphy | ... | assistant: Mr. Smith & Mr. West |
| Dana Ostroff | ... | production accountant |
| Timothy Scott Ralston | ... | screening operations executive |
| Lisa Rudin | ... | assistant: Mr. Charles |
| Kathy Sarreal | ... | legal services: Weissmann, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman, Grodin & Evall |
| Estee Seward | ... | assistant: Mr. Maher |
| Julie Shapiro | ... | production travel: Travel Corps |
| Noam Sharon | ... | researcher: Israel |
| Marc R. Sinderman | ... | production accountant |
| Matthew N. Sugarman | ... | legal services: Weissmann, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman, Grodin & Evall (as Matt Sugarman) |
| Rieko Takagi | ... | production assistant |
| Greg Wishnev | ... | researcher (uncredited) |
Thanks
| Cliff Dorfman | ... | special thanks |
| Ned Goldreyer | ... | special thanks |
| Julie Maher | ... | in loving memory of |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Blue Sky Media (2007) (Albania)
- Blue Sky Media (2007) (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
- Blue Sky Media (2007) (Bulgaria)
- Blue Sky Media (2007) (Croatia)
- Blue Sky Media (2007) (Hungary)
- Blue Sky Media (2007) (Kosovo)
- Blue Sky Media (2007) (North Macedonia)
- Blue Sky Media (2007) (Montenegro)
- Blue Sky Media (2007) (Poland)
- Blue Sky Media (2007) (Romania)
- Blue Sky Media (2007) (Serbia)
- Blue Sky Media (2007) (Slovakia)
- Blue Sky Media (2007) (Slovenia)
- A-Film Distribution (2008) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
- Ascot Elite Entertainment Group (2008) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
- Icon Film Distribution (2008) (Australia) (theatrical)
- Lionsgate Films (2008) (United States) (theatrical)
- Metropolitan Filmexport (2009) (France) (theatrical)
- Village Films (2008) (Greece) (theatrical)
- Blue Sky Media (2008) (Czechia)
- Sandrew Metronome Distribution (2009) (Finland) (DVD)
- Sandrews (2009) (Sweden) (DVD)
- Senator Home Entertainment (2009) (Germany) (DVD)
- Showtime Networks (2009) (United States) (tv)
- Sony Music Entertainment (2009) (Japan) (tv)
- TVA Films (2008) (Canada)
Special Effects
- Yard VFX (title graphics & visual effects)
Other Companies
- ABC News Video Source (footage courtesy of)
- AP Archive (footage courtesy of)
- AbelCine (lenses and cameras)
- Allstock (footage courtesy of)
- BBC Motion Gallery (footage courtesy of)
- Big Time Picture Company (final cut pro systems support)
- Budget Films (footage courtesy of)
- Cable News Network (CNN) (footage courtesy of)
- Classic Images (footage courtesy of)
- Corbis (footage courtesy of)
- Diamond Time (music clearances)
- Dolby Laboratories (sound mix)
- EFILM (digital film recording)
- FILM Archives (footage courtesy of)
- Film & Video Stock Shots (footage courtesy of)
- Fintage CAM (collection account management)
- Footage Bank (footage courtesy of)
- Frankel & Associates (production insurance)
- Global Imageworks (footage courtesy of)
- HBO Archives (footage courtesy of)
- Historic Films Archive (footage courtesy of)
- Hollywood-DI (digital intermediate services)
- ITN Source (footage courtesy of)
- Image Bank Films by Getty Images (footage courtesy of)
- Journeyman Films (footage courtesy of)
- Landov (footage courtesy of)
- Lions Gate Records (soundtrack)
- MacDonald and Associates (footage courtesy of)
- Micdi Productions (music editorial services)
- Micdi Productions (post-production sound services)
- Modern VideoFilm (dailies transfer)
- Modern VideoFilm (post-production services)
- NBC News Archives (footage courtesy of)
- Soundelux (sound design & editorial)
- Streamline Films (footage courtesy of)
- The Conus Archive (footage courtesy of)
- Thought Equity (footage courtesy of)
- Todd-AO Studios (sound re-recording services)
- Travel Corps (production travel)
- Vanderbilt Television News Archive (footage courtesy of)
- Video Tape Library (footage courtesy of)
- Visual Icon (exclusive clip and still licensing)
- WPA Film Library (footage courtesy of)
- Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin (legal services)
Storyline
| Plot Summary |
Bill Maher interviews some of religion's oddest adherents. Muslims, Jews and Christians of many kinds pass before his jaundiced eye. Maher goes to a Creationist Museum in Kentucky, which shows that dinosaurs and people lived at the same time 5000 years ago. He talks to truckers at a Truckers' Chapel. (Sign outside: "Jesus love you.") He goes to a theme park called Holy Land in Florida. He speaks to a rabbi in league with Holocaust deniers. He talks to a Muslim musician who preaches hatred of Jews. Maher finds the unlikeliest of believers and, in a certain Vatican priest, he even finds an unlikely skeptic. Written by J. Spurlin |
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| Taglines | Do you smell something burning? See more » |
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| Parents Guide | View content advisory » |
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Box Office
| Budget | $2,500,000 (estimated) |
| Opening Weekend United States | $3,409,643, 05 Oct 2008 |
Did You Know?
| Trivia | The film used the fake working title "A Spiritual Journey" in order to obtain interviews with religious leaders. They were unaware that Bill Maher was involved in the film until he arrived for the interviews. See more » |
| Goofs | Bill Maher conflates al-Hajaru al-Aswad, "the Black Stone" with the Kaaba, which is the building in which it is housed. There are several devotional objects in the Kaaba and Muslim pilgrims face the building rather than the stone. See more » |
| Movie Connections | Features Brigham Young (1940). See more » |
| Soundtracks | Crazy See more » |
| Crazy Credits | After the credits, there is one last clip of Bill Maher with his mother and sister. He tells them "I'll see you in heaven", and they laugh. His mother says "who knows," and there is a title card "In loving memory of Julie Maher, 1919-2007". See more » |
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[last lines]
Bill Maher: The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses, the world could actually come to an end. The plain fact is, religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having in key decisions made by religious people. By irrationalists, by those who would steer the ship of state not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken. George Bush prayed a lot about Iraq, but he didn't learn a lot about it. Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it are intellectual slaveholders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction. Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do. Most people would think it's wonderful when someone says, "I'm willing, Lord! I'll do whatever you want me to do!" Except that since there are no gods actually talking to us, that void is filled in by people with their own corruptions and limitations and agendas. And anyone who tells you they know, they just know what happens when you die, I promise you, you don't. How can I be so sure? Because I don't know, and you do not possess mental powers that I do not. The only appropriate attitude for man to have about the big questions is not the arrogant certitude that is the hallmark of religion, but doubt. Doubt is humble, and that's what man needs to be, considering that human history is just a litany of getting shit dead wrong. This is why rational people, anti-religionists, must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves. And those who consider themselves only moderately religious really need to look in the mirror and realize that the solace and comfort that religion brings you actually comes at a terrible price. If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. To do otherwise is to be an enabler, a mafia wife, for the true devils of extremism that draw their legitimacy from the billions of their fellow travelers. If the world does come to an end here, or wherever, or if it limps into the future, decimated by the effects of religion-inspired nuclear terrorism, let's remember what the real problem was that we learned how to precipitate mass death before we got past the neurological disorder of wishing for it. That's it. Grow up or die. See more » |