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canuckistan · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 1:25 pm Post subject: Bill Maher's "Religulous"

An enjoyable reminder of how gullible/utterly stupid too much of the human race still is.

crash bang · Joined: 11 Jul 2007 Location: gwangju

should a mod be making such an inflammatory statement?

canuckistan · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 1:34 pm Post subject:

Crash Bang, you're a funny guy!

crash bang · Joined: 11 Jul 2007 Location: gwangju

now theres something we can all agree on!

Chuvok · Joined: 25 Jan 2009 Location: Russia

I've seen it. A few good laughs, but he's no Michael Moore.

He claims to be a catholic throughout the movie (his father is catholic, mother a jew), but he seems quite jewish in his sympathies.

curiousaboutkorea · Joined: 21 Jan 2009

mole · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Act III

Silly quote from mole's Mum:
"Wasn't he a comedian before he went into journalism?"

canuckistan · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 3:55 pm Post subject:

DC in Suwon · Joined: 14 Dec 2008

He repeats himself over and over again.....and I have the same feelings/beliefs he does:

"I just don't know."

He's wondering how people can believe such proposterous stories.

ernie · Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Location: asdfghjk

"If you're going to a better place, why not kill yourself now?"

curiousaboutkorea · Joined: 21 Jan 2009

I think there's some confusion on this thread about what Atheism is. There's a big difference between Positive Atheism and Negative Atheism.

Positive Atheism is the belief that there's no god.

Negative Atheism (which is what the majority of Atheists are) is no belief in god. That is, an absence of a belief. The Negative Atheist says, "I don't know."

Bill Maher is a Negative Atheist.

flakfizer · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 5:22 pm Post subject:

I once saw Bill Maher in a USA Up All Night movie called, "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death." It was intentionally campy. Good for about two laughs-in other words, his funniest work to date.

crash bang · Joined: 11 Jul 2007 Location: gwangju

im always amused by the churchies who pray for other churchies to surive some horrible illness, or give thanks to god for sparing so and so's life

ummmm what are you so afraid of? arent you and your friends going to heaven?

i dont say this to make fun. the members of my mom's church (many of whom ive known for the better part of three decades) are some of the dearest, kindest, most decent ppl i know. i just believe there is a flaw in their thinking

greedy_bones · Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Location: not quite sure anymore

The movie was alright, but it would have been better without Bill Maher. He's pretty much an Atheist despite his repeated statements to the contrary. He just doesn't understand what an Atheist actually is.

While I agree with most of Maher's stances on government and religion, he just comes off as a douche when he's talking about his stances. I much prefer John Stewart and Stephen Colbert. I'm also not big on PETA, but that's another topic entirely.

The movie was much better than any Michael Moore movie, though. Michael Moore is a hack.

curiousaboutkorea · Joined: 21 Jan 2009

I stand corrected. From what I gather, he never does say he's an Atheist explicitly. I had stated the contrary that he does say he's an Atheist.

Yet, he still is an Atheist, because he lacks any religion. One doesn't have to claim to be an Atheist to be an Atheist, unlike religions in which one has to claim to be a Catholic to be a Catholic. Atheism isn't a religion, it's the absence of it.