Review of Religulous (2008) by Shane S — 17 Jun 2010
This documentary doesn't know what to say, really. It speaks for agnostics and liberal Christians, but it also screams at those same groups for being ignorant of the world's problems as caused by them. When somebody tries to reform said religion, they get their throat slit. When somebody tries to tell how unoriginal the birth of Jesus is, they argue with passages from the Bible saying that Jesus is so original.
"Yeah," seminal talk show host Bill Maher states hypothetically, "About as original as a Sonic recolor.".
The truth of the matter is that religion is much like Sonichu the Electric Hedgehog Pokemon: it's made solely to give us comfort without us really knowing that it's a bunch of stupidity masked by all these good deeds. And the stupidity includes Ken Ham's Creation Museum (which I want to go to), the former Blue Notes member who states that Jesus was a rich guy who made up Communism so he could have a bit of a laugh, and those people who bar Jews from the Temple of the Rock just because it used to be their land.
And adding in that bit about Scientology and Mormonism made me laugh hard. Religion strives to be crazy. After stealing every idea it can, let's take two people who strove to make fun of religion but soon turned into dictatorial zealots themselves and apply their religions to modern life.
So, can we just shut up about who's the true God and who's not? Can't we all get along as humans?
This review of Religulous (2008) was written by Shane S on 17 Jun 2010.
Religulous has generally received positive reviews.
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