Review – Religulous

Bill Maher brings his personal brand of unfunny comedy to bear on the subject of religion, ultimately concluding that anyone who has a faith of any kind is at best an idiot and at worst downright dangerous. Just as Ben Stein’s Expelled is a recklessly irresponsible attack on science, this is a dishonest salvo fired from the opposite side of the field. Most of Maher’s jokes aren’t funny, and for the most part he manages to select obvious fanatics rather than calmer, more sensible people of faith. Further, just about every interview has obviously been cut to make the subject look bad (or look worse in the case of the interviewees who would have looked nuts under the best of circumstances). Overall this once again proves that propaganda defeats its own purpose by making even a partially true argument look like a total lie. See if desperate