Anyone who knows me knows I'm not a religious person. Sure, it's probably due to my mom never sending me to church as a kid, and you know what, God bless her because I'm happy to not have faith. And to those who do, and to those who can't understand why anyone wouldn't, I can't point to you a more adequate summation of my feelings on the topic than this film. I scored some advance screening tickets from Aint It Cool News to see this last night in downtown Chicago, and when I left all I could think were 2 things: 1) Everyone should see this movie and 2)no one who needs to see this movie will actually see it. To be honest, I don't really like Bill Maher. Had I not landed free tickets, I probably would have gone to Eagle Eye or something. Love that Shia. But even though Maher comes across as an irreverrant, self-righteous bully at times, his message is totally spot on. Like me, like a small but growing 14% of the country, he is very concerned about the place religion has in an ever-intellectualized world and the stagnating (and more importantly destructive) effect it has on human society. I'm not going to laud it for being a very tight, well structured poignant documentary that is the must see movie of our times, but it's pretty damn close. Bill Maher has questions, the same questions I have, and he's out there getting some important people to try to answer them. Sadly, the answers are simply not good enough. I don't want to say much more. Definitely go see it. Even if you have faith, if you have an IQ above 100 you'll probably have some questions yourself.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Religulous
Anyone who knows me knows I'm not a religious person. Sure, it's probably due to my mom never sending me to church as a kid, and you know what, God bless her because I'm happy to not have faith. And to those who do, and to those who can't understand why anyone wouldn't, I can't point to you a more adequate summation of my feelings on the topic than this film. I scored some advance screening tickets from Aint It Cool News to see this last night in downtown Chicago, and when I left all I could think were 2 things: 1) Everyone should see this movie and 2)no one who needs to see this movie will actually see it. To be honest, I don't really like Bill Maher. Had I not landed free tickets, I probably would have gone to Eagle Eye or something. Love that Shia. But even though Maher comes across as an irreverrant, self-righteous bully at times, his message is totally spot on. Like me, like a small but growing 14% of the country, he is very concerned about the place religion has in an ever-intellectualized world and the stagnating (and more importantly destructive) effect it has on human society. I'm not going to laud it for being a very tight, well structured poignant documentary that is the must see movie of our times, but it's pretty damn close. Bill Maher has questions, the same questions I have, and he's out there getting some important people to try to answer them. Sadly, the answers are simply not good enough. I don't want to say much more. Definitely go see it. Even if you have faith, if you have an IQ above 100 you'll probably have some questions yourself.
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Yeah, you're right, I didn't expose you to religious hypocrisy by sending you to church, but what I was hoping for was that you would search for higher meaning on your own and find that not all things are tangible. I believe anyone with, as you say, an IQ over 100 would explore other realms of reality before expounding on their lack of faith. For the record, I struggle greatly with the decision I made for you.
Love you, Mom.
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