Religulous by Bill Maher = Zeitgeist on quaaludes

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How/why do the titles of posts get changed long after the OP loses the ability to modify their post?  I have noticed posts I've  written which have found their way into threads with titles I likely wouldn't have even opened.

theads get merged, split, title changed all the time.  Is there a particular request that you have?

[sociostudent]

I watched this movie with my husband, and I hated it while he loved it. We've chosen not to actively debate on it, it's so controversial. As the grandchild of pastors myself, I find it very deceptive to non-religious viewers (showing ONLY the extremes of religion and nothing else) and offensive to people who are of any religion whatsoever and he saw it as an accurate, unadulterated expose on how stupid and unnecessary religion is.

[RickT]

theads get merged, split, title changed all the time.  Is there a particular request that you have?

There was something awhile back that caught my eye but I'll point out things in the future.  I just don't see why a thread's title would be changed when no merger happens but whatever.

Sociostudent, as for showing extremes of religion?  I don't think he even touched the fringes. 

I hated Zeitgeist (both) but I thought Religulous was fairly good.  Zeitgeist went on about some ridiculous high tech society which will never exist, while doubt and uncertainty are the main messages of Religulous.  I was raised Catholic, went to a Protestant school, was a youth faith leader and would have considered myself born again in my early 20s, but the more I thought about what we're told to accept on faith, the more ridiculous it all sounded.  Do I hope there's something beyond this life?  Yes.  Do I think it has much if anything to do with the stories told in any of the world's religious texts?  Doubt it very much.


It's the surety of the believers, that nonbelievers are screwed... whether they live a good life, are charitable and caring for their fellow man or not, which gets my goat the most or that atheists are automatically NWO stooges who only care about themselves.

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I'm not up on this guy but according to this post.
 He is a punk with a sharp tongue.

bill maher is ann coulter without the makeup and wig.

watching "religulous" would make your mind up about the guy pretty quick.

[grapecrusher1]

bill maher is ann coulter without the makeup and wig.

watching "religulous" would make your mind up about the guy pretty quick.

It is clear that anyone who believes in fictitious beings like ghosts, fairies, or gods would be offended by Religulous and as an instant reaction would write it off as it humiliates their current manufactured paradigm.

Religion is nonsense --  the Opium of the Masses

An important mechanism to control the hoi polloi

One of its important aspects is division and not just against other established religions but amongst themselves.  Have you read some of the threads here where these whackjobs are quoting verse with bizarre intepretations to support a given position.  Where, by the virtue of the quote coming out of a particular book written by men trumps all other points.  Supposedly salient beings think this is rational.  Hilarious but sad.

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Bill Maher is a total douchebag regardless of what your opinion of religion is...he's a pompous ass, and he's wrong about almost everything political, so why would I care what he has to say about the spiritual?  You can only find him interesting if you have a completely "left" and "atheist" point of view.  Maher himself serves as a divider of people...if you aren't with him you are a paranoid, religious zealot and probably conservative.

BTW...the control mechanism of religion is being passed over to science.  For instance...


Carnegie Touts Green Credentials Of Genghis Khan For Slaughtering 40 Million People
http://www.infowars.com/carnegie-touts-green-credentials-of-genghis-khan-for-slaughtering-40-million-people/


No more sacrifices to Gods...just earth. 
Gotta get the number of people down to a "balance with nature". 
Bill Maher loves this idea as long as it begins with the people he disagrees with.
Just as lame as dying to conquer the Holy Land, IMO.

[grapecrusher1]

Bill Maher is a total douchebag regardless of what your opinion of religion is...he's a pompous ass, and he's wrong about almost everything political

No argument from this keyboard

[Geolibertarian]

watching "religulous" would make your mind up about the guy pretty quick.

I actually liked that documentary. The problem is that Maher is so blinded by his own self-righteous arrogance, he doesn't realize that he himself exhibits all the signs of a brainwashed cult member:

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I actually liked that documentary. The problem is that Maher is so blinded by his own self-righteous arrogance, he doesn't realize that he himself exhibits all the signs of a brainwashed cult member:

that is exactly what i meant...

im not religious myself but i understand that people should be able to carve totems, handle snakes and preach divine betterment due to bizarre scriptures..... the most interesting problem is that the people that demand the right to worship one of the hundreds of gods we humans have envisaged do not afford me the same understanding... they now insist that the god they chose out of the hundreds available is the only god and all other religions and religious learning must be killed and/or destroyed.

abstaining and not picking a god is even worse because they think your a pussy because you didn't pick a side and they cannot scream scripture at you because you have no scripture to scream back and it makes them look like a raving lunatic zealot when they scream scripture at non conformist no god idiots....


i better shut up.         

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Only a minority of religious people are this brand of self-righteous idiot that goes around quoting scripture and condemning people to Hell.

Yes, they are very vocal, but there is a similar crowd in every group...even atheists.

They are to be ignored.  Bitching about them, is just playing their game.

They think you are stupid for not knowing scripture and you think they are stupid for quoting it. 

Two slaves arguing about who is more free.  Humorous, but not worth watching.

[Djævlen]

Thought the movie was spot on (until the very end where he gets into the "evil muslim" hype). Not a fan of Maher, but dont shoot the messenger.....and please save your "atheism is a cult/religion" bullshit.

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and please save your "atheism is a cult/religion" bullshit.

Ignore it if you want, but it's the religion the media is pushing these days.

[Djævlen]

Ignore it if you want, but it's the religion the media is pushing these days.

i see absolutely NO evidence of that. The media is only pushing anti-muslim propaganda.

[Michal Ptacnik]

i see absolutely NO evidence of that. The media is only pushing anti-muslim propaganda

The media are pushing watered down everything, because the media serve and create the masses, they serve the idea of averageness. If the average masses want crystals and supperstition, they get these things. There is no pushing of new age ideas that I would be aware of here. Our people here are usualy not Christian, so it is clear why Christianity is not in the media here, and the media keeps some veneer of neutrality, safe for the aforementioned bias against extreme islam, which is understandable.

[Michal Ptacnik]

But yes, if you want it this way, while atheism is by no means a cult, it is a religious outlook. And it is the easiest outlook you can base your presentation on if you want to seem neutral.

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i see absolutely NO evidence of that. The media is only pushing anti-muslim propaganda.

The media is anti religion for sure.  They don't just bash Muslims, they also bash Christians.  All Christians are lumped in with evangelists and pedophile priests.  Name a character on television who attends church regularly...The Simpsons.  What image are they giving?  

Admittedly, the Jews get a bit of a pass, due to history.  But, Zionist Israel has done little to make that faith look respectable.  Our media is slowly starting to talk about Palestinian genocide.

Back in the eighties, when religion was still being promoted by the media, you had all kinds of shows where the family attended church and socialized with their minister.  The only shows promoting religion now, are shows like Paranormal State where science is being used to validate ancient beliefs of ghosts and demons.  They will regularly have a priest "familiar with exorcism" on these shows.  To me, shows like Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures and Paranormal State are serving the clear purpose of transferring the faith of the masses from several gods to one...science.

Not that science equates to atheism, but science recognizes no God.  Although, lately, it has become "kosher" to convince us that we are the product of aliens.  Whether it is Richard Dawkins telling Ben Stein or the History Channel talking about Ancient Aliens.

But yes, if you want it this way, while atheism is by no means a cult, it is a religious outlook. And it is the easiest outlook you can base your presentation on if you want to seem neutral.

That is true.  But, I see little difference between atheists and the religious...they are both more than willing to view the opposing side as dimwitted. 

Cultists always refuse to recognize the opposing viewpoint as potentially valid.

[Kilika]

The vast majority of the time when media says "Christian", they show Catholics!

How many times in movies and tv shows do they portray christianity as Catholic? Almost exclusively. No question it's a false message the media is sending.

[birther truther tenther]

Bitching about them, is just playing their game.

You're exactly right.

That's why this should be the last post in this thread.