August 20th, 2007
So Bill Maher has made a movie about religion. To be released around Easter. The documentary, tentatively titled Religulous, sounds unbelievably brave. After all, you’ve seen the enormous price people in Hollywood pay for even beginning to question the pieties of religious zealots. This is why we have artists–to speak truth to the powerful.
Anyway, Maher had this to say about the movie, “We talked to everybody. We went everywhere. We went to every place where there is religion. We went to Vatican City. We went to Jerusalem. We went to Salt Lake City. And I think I’ve insulted everybody!”
Christians, check. Jews, check. Mormons, check. Yup, that’s everybody! There’s no other important religious group worth mentioning that maybe deserves some fun-poking and that might react badly to being ridiculed. And thank goodness the film will be released around Easter and not some other holy period.
Nobody has seen the movie yet. And maybe Maher really is an equal-opportunity offender. But if he is, I’ll be pretty surprised. After all, why go after a religion where offended believers really might kill you when you can get the same thrill beating up on people who never push back.
Update: More bravery from Britain’s entertainment industry–” BBC drops fictional terror attack to avoid offending Muslims.”
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