Religulous (2008)

Genre: Documentary

Directed by: Larry Charles

Cast: Bill Maher

Time: 101 minutes

In this documentary, comedian and TV personality Bill Maher travels around the world to explore various religions and talk to their believers. Over the course of 101 minutes, Maher discusses Christians, Muslims, Hasidic Jews, Mormons, Scientologists and more.

First off, if you are a fervent religious person and religion is a very sensitive subject for you, you might want to stay away from Religulous. As you would sense from the title, this is not an essay on the virtues of religion.

I will give Maher credit: He does seem to have a lot of knowledge about the subject matters he is criticizing, which gives the whole thing a lot more weight. Yes, the point of view is one-sided, but that is what documentaries usually here: You pick a point of view and you run with the ball.

I absolutely loved this documentary. It made me laugh out loud abundantly. While I am not a very religious person, religion is a subject I find interesting, especially when it comes to studying the people involved, Religulous offers a good dose of just that.

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