Movie Review: Religulous
I don’t watch a lot of movies, but I like to talk about them anyway, especially the really special ones. Recently, my husband rented Religulous with Bill Maher, and boy, would I like to talk about this movie.
Religulous is billed as a Comedy / Documentary, and that is a good description. The premise is Bill Maher traveling around the world, speaking to various people of various religious beliefs and their dissenters. I will note that he sticks to the Abrahamic religions; a lot of brands of Christianity, including a fascinating trip to the vatican that left me liking Catholics a lot more than I thought I would, Islam and Judaism. (Which for some reason I almost typed as Jediism, and that is a completely different thing. Bill Maher did not talk to any Jedis that I noticed.)
I have always liked Bill Maher, and this movie proved why. He’s witty, he makes no apologies for his own beliefs, he’s just a little caustic… In short, he is the way I sometimes wish I had the nerve to be: he says what he thinks without ever worrying about hurting anyone’s feelings, even to the point of calling someone ridiculous right to their face. His views on religion (and a lot else) seem to mesh very well with my own, which is probably one of the reasons I enjoyed this movie so much. But I do think that even if you’re a more religious person that me (in other words, at all religious, even a little bit), as long as you can stand to look at your faith from an outside perspective, and have a sense of humor, you’ll probably enjoy this movie.
And did you know that the Vatican has an observatory? The former director is one George Coyne, a Jesuit Priest and one seriously cool cat.
Anyway, check it out:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0815241/
