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Religulous
I don't find religion 'religulous,' but I did find myself chuckling and hooting throughout much of this documentary. The film was never dull. It irked me a bit that Maher spends over two-thirds of the film debunking Christianity when there are other world religions that could be the butt of his satire. In my view, he (like so many others) has Christianity in his sights throughout the bulk of the film for a number of reasons. First off, mocking zealous 'Bible Belt' American evangelical Christians isn't exactly much of a hurdle; they make themselves easy pickings. Second, Christians are supposed to turn the other cheek and if they don't do that, as Maher himself is quick to point out in his film, they are hypocritical and judgemental. Finally, in our current political climate, mocking Judaism and Islam is delicate and pretty much taboo, but it wouldn't stop a true satirist for whom nothing is sacred. So the anti-Christian bias of the film was predictable and a little tedious. Nonetheless, for all his irreverence, Maher has something to say, and it ain't pretty. The last four minutes, in which Maher launches into his diatribe against ALL religions left me a little queasy. He goes about it with such a firebrand zeal and fervour that he started to resemble the very fanatics he had been taking such pains to ridicule. And his blathering on about the supremacy of 'rationalism' left me a little confused. The age of reason, after all, manufactured all of those weapons of nuclear, biological, and chemical mass destruction that Maher has blaze across the screen in the closing minutes of his film.
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