Religulous Film Review
Religulous Film Review
The Film Religulous is a film that follows political humoristic and author Bill Maher. Bill Maher goes around the world, travelling interviewing people about God and why they believe in religion. While Bill goes around, we discovered that there are so many other religions and with such different meanings. So many people believe in so many different religions which one can be the right one? That is what Bill's point was, one of the people Bill interviewed talks about how she believes in the religion, when Bill goes further into the question she can't answer any of them but all she had to say is that she believed in the bible, even after Bill showed so many different written of it. Do people really believe, or pretend they do?
Religion is not positive towards society. There are many different types of religion and many people discriminate against one another. In reality, we will never know what religion is really the true one. This all because there are so many different writings of bibles, that many people don't know what to believe in or not. Is religion dangerous because it allows human beings who don’t have all the answers to think they do? Religion is dangerous, because it allows humans who don't have all the answers at all to think they do. As an example, when Bill talks about how people tell you they know what happens when you die, they don’t, and as Bill says, neither does he, why? Because he doesn't know, therefore he can't talk about something that he has no idea about. Often the rightest answer is "I don’t know". Is " I don’t know enough of an answer"? I believe often I don’t know is the right answer. Most people think they know the answers so they say what they think is right or believe in. But how can you be sure of something, if you have never witnessed it or aren't God?
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. Those who preach faith, enable it and elevate it and as Bill mentions it, they are intellectual slaveholders, keeping man kind to a bondage of fantasy and nonsense. Is being good to "save one's ass" a legitimate guiding principle? No, you should only save yourself. Some people only believe in religion so that they don't go to hell. Should you save them? Of course not, only yourself because you truly believe in religion and you are not taking advantage of it. Is having no faith a luxury? When Bill mentions this in the film, he mentions how some are fortunate enough to have a fortunate life. He gives the example, when you go to a prison and you hear a guy say, that the only think he got is God. So really those who are good in