Have you ever seen Religulous?

[Tobin S.]

I'm out near Seattle and parked right next to this deal right here:





There are several of these across the country. I think the one in the film was located in Arkansas, but I'm not sure about that. Somewhere down south. Remember the "You're disrespecting my god" guy? I thought that was funny and sad at the same time. It's about 8:30am pacific and I think services start here in a little bit. It might be fun to go in there and raise a little hell, but I don't think I have the gonads. I wonder if the preacher man will sense my evil presence and try to save my soul?

[onager]

1. Christ already has his own transport...

If you go in, be careful. As I remember from Religulous, one of those guys got downright threatening to Maher.

[ZombieHorde]

2. My wife bought the DVD, its pretty funny.

I probably would not go in just to fuck with them. Sometimes people go to church to overcome the horrible feelings which come from divorce or the death of a loved one, I wouldn't want to mess around with those feelings.

[rrneck]

3. I laughed my ass off.

Maher is really good at funny snark, but I don't take him all that seriously. He's selling his bullshit just like all the rest of them.

If I went in and checked it out I'd probably find the experience tedious. Unless I were a practitioner of that faith it wouldn't have any meaning for me. If I met anybody in there outside the context of the mobile chapel, they'd probably seem fairly nice and generally cooperative, but if they started proselytizing to me, I'd consider them arrogant and rude.

[sakabatou]

4. Saw it. Pretty funny.

[frogmarch]

5. I saw it, but I

don't remember seeing a God truck in it. Maybe I was taking a bathroom break or making popcorn. The next time I watch it, I'll look for the truck. (I'd be embarrassed to be associated with such a thing! :-))

[onager]

6. IIRC, that part is near the beginning.

I wouldn't mind seeing it again. Last Xmas I tried to get some of the relatives to watch it with me, when I was back home in Jesusistan. They were all afraid they'd be struck by lightning and refused. I'm only partly kidding.

One complaint - I wish Maher had provided a little more detail/context for the Orthodox Jewish stuff. If I hadn't known of their rules about work during the Sabbath etc., I would have been even more confused. Knowing at least a little about the culture, I was still sort of confuzzled.

And sort of on-topic...

Last week I watched a documentary where we atheists might have gained a couple more new members. But certainly not in a way we can celebrate.

The documentary is Deliver Us From Evil, the story of the truly loathsome Father Oliver O'Grady. O'Grady was a serial child molester who kept being moved from parish to parish in Central California.

There was some political fallout because the Bishop who kept protecting O'Grady was Roger Mahony, later Cardinal of Los Angeles.

In one scene, the father of a victim who O'Grady raped when she was 5 years old finally explodes: "There is no God! I don't believe in a God any more! All those rules, they're just made up!"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814075/

[Tobin S.]

7. I've seen Deliver Us From Evil, too, and I also recommend it

It seemed evident to me that O'Grady feels no remorse for what he did or even thinks that what he did was wrong. Listening to him speak is chilling and downright disgusting at one point.

[realisticphish]

8. It's hard for me

to disassociate Maher from his anti-vax and anti-medicine opinions.

Sometimes I think he's an atheists just because it can piss people off. I don't know.

Doesn't change the humor, of course :)

[TZ]

9. Yep. I won't give him any of my money or time.

Because he does far more damage with his anti-science nonsense than his anti-religious comments help.

[realisticphish]

10. this is why

I was (and still am) upset with the Richard Dawkins Foundation for giving him an award

[Tobin S.]

12. This is not so much about Maher as it is someone far more important:

Me!

[TZ]

13. LOL!

Point made, Tobin! :)

[EvolveOrConvolve]

11. Ditto

(is it okay to say "ditto"?)

I just can't take Maher seriously anymore because of some of his nutty ideas.

[and-justice-for-all]

14. Why does jeebus need an 18 wheeler?

:eyes: