Comments on: Religulous: Why you as an ‘experienced nontheist’ don’t need to go see it

By: Chad

Chad — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 21:21:52 +0000

Bill Maher. Enough said. The man simply isnt funny, nor is he in any way, original. Watching His “Real Time” program on HBO is like watching “The View”, where Maher plays the role of Joy Behar. The only difference is that Joy Behar has a bigger set of balls.
This isn’t to say that argueing against religion can’t be funny, becaus it can (George Carlin was the best at it). But Mahers feeble attempt at it was a miserable failure. That’s why it lasted like 36 hrs at the box office & went straight to DVD.

By: Shaun Dmello

Shaun Dmello — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:01:19 +0000

Must say that I love it! The reason it works and was so effective because its a light take on religion with the characteristic humor lightening the entire matter, almost trivializing it, but then jolting you severely in the end. The points that most criticize are in fact what make it so much more damning for religion. The entire atmosphere is that of a light hearted humorous take on religion, with a final revelation that shakes you out of your indifference.
Maybe it helped that I'd never seen or heard of Bill Maher before, which was why I could watch it with an open mind. Either way it works to show how absurd and ridiculous religion can be and how destructive and dangerous that which to us is funny can be. My girlfriend was sort of an agnostic fence sitter, which I have no problem with, but thanks to Bill Maher she's an atheist too.
In the context of Bill Maher, I've started watching Real Time, and although I find him as mediator and interviewer to be too opinionated and vindictive, the show is extremely stimulating, with discussions and debate of great interest and relevance, as opposed to those in most other shows. And whatever you say, no matter how much you dislike his style of humor, he does provoke reactions and debate.

By: Jon P

Jon P — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:56:42 +0000

That's the problem right there. Bill Maher might've thought that he was putting forth another weapon in the war against Mass-Delusion/Religion, but really he's putting something out there which Christians and others suffering from mass-delusions can enjoy. That shouldn't be the case if Maher had done the job well.

By: Nies

Nies — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:40:59 +0000

I'm a Christian (OH NO, sound the alarms!) and I thought it was funny.

Mainly because of how stupid it was.

By: db0

db0 — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:34:27 +0000

Thanks for the review. I was considering seeing the movie but for some reason it just did not do it for me. I think you pointed out the things that irritated me about it adequately

By: Art Martin

Art Martin — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:52:41 +0000

Boy, I enjoyed the hell out of the movie and so did my atheist sons and my "spiritual" wife. Your problem is that you went to the movie not liking Bill Maher to begin with and it's obvious that distaste filtered your viewing.