Religulous

Religulous, Directed by Larry Charles written by and starring staring Bill Maher, is a comedy that is intended to display what the movie perceives as the big questions of religion.  Which also results in Bill Maher insulting the majority of the people in the world.  The Movie focuses on Christianity and Islam with a few divergences to various inquiries about other religions.  The major questions that the movie asks of Christianity are: why, if so many things stated in the bible are so unreasonable and there is so little evidence that there is a presence of God, do people believe in Christianity? Why is it so important to the church that homosexuality is considered a sin, especially given that it is only mentioned in the Old Testament and that Christ preached about acceptance? Why do so many Christians go to such length to deny the theory of evolution?  And why is a combination of religion and government so common?

            The film demonstrates that the culture of faith is often a sub-culture of the over all culture, as is the case I the United States, and because of this the logic of the culture is much more commonly called into question.  While the movie has many political implications, what the film mainly does is to question the logic of the culture of faith.  One of the movies presumptions is that the existence of God is illogical, however the basis of basis of logic within the culture of faith founded upon the existence of God.  The simple answer to all of the questions asked by the film is that people of faith believe, the logic of the culture of faith is bases around the understanding of the existence God.  

Works Cited:

Religulous. Dir. Larry Charles. Perf. Bill Maher. Film. 2008.

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