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Bill Maher is the smartest guy in the room in Religulous
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by Scott Rice -
SGN Contributing Writer Religulous Opening October 3 Do you ever get tired of living under the shadow of perpetual conflict instigated by all those religious zealots ready to die - and, more importantly, kill - for their particular version of God? I do, and so does Bill Maher, thank God. That's why he made a very funny movie about it. While Religulous is a ridiculously funny documentary, Maher seldom shows outright disdain for the people he interviews. He shoots the gap between condescension and curious affection fairly well. You always know he thinks he's the smartest person in the room. In fact, the people he interviews believe the same thing (or try desperately to convince themselves of it anyway). The difference is that Maher usually is the smartest person in the room - by a long shot. Maher admittedly draws largely on the extra-crazy edge of the world's religious communities. However, this only serves to put the more conventional versions of religion; those folks who worship together, vote together, and walk among us incognito, into a clearer context: they're just crazy-light. This religious stuff resonates with many Queer people, too. I mean it's no fun to realize at 13 that all your friends and family believe that God doesn't care much for you, and thus, neither do they. So, we'll all be interested to know that Maher takes up the Queer cause and interviews a couple of Gay Muslims. He also interviews a "recovered" Gay man and the sexual tension (I'm not kidding) is palpable. This might have something to do with Maher's rather prominent package and the fact that, oh yeah, you can't cure Queerness. And all this time I thought Maher got to have sex with Playboy bunnies because he was famous. And I'm a little tired of having organized religion shoved down my throat all the time. How many televangelists does one God need? When did AM radio get hijacked? What's up with megachurches and bomb-toting extremists of every ilk? And these same folks have the nerve to tell me I shove my sexuality down their throat. Well, the last time I shoved my sexuality down a straight person's throat it was at a truck stop outside of Killeen, Texas (this is a total fabrication meant to titillate and enrage). Another thing that makes Religulous a timely documentary is the current attempts to fudge the lines between church and state by our own religious right-wing-nuts. George W. already thinks he's a tool of God (just leave off that prepositional phrase and the sentence becomes accurate). Now we have Sarah Palin and her Wasilla witch-hunting self a possible 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency of the U.S. of A. She doesn't need a newspaper or magazine because she has the Bible, by Gawd! And while it's easy to believe a higher power would be the only way for these two nitwits to get so far, that doesn't solve the problem of original sin. Make no mistake, these folks want to bring you eternity insurance whether you want it or not. Check out Religulous opening Friday, October 3. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen all year. I mean fall-down-laughing funny in a good-natured way that's still going to piss some folks off. And it's nice to find out there are actually tons of us out there who are sick of organized religion. |
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