Openly Obscure

I decided to write a review about a recent movie I watched starring Bill Maher. I'm sure only a few of you have actually heard of the movie, Religulous, and more likely that less of you have even seen it. It's hard to get away from the current brain washings that we have grown up with and the fact of the matter is, while we think we know all the answers anything we do not know is told to us by others. While watching this movie, Bill would interview various priests, rabbis and imams and half of the time they would not be able to answer the questions that Bill would have for them! You would think that these men of God who have been studying their respective texts would have answers to the most simple questions. I'm not going to delve too into it but if you are interested, then you should watch the movie. Here is a preview from YouTube and I've copied and pasted the script for the last few lines:

Bill Maher: The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses, the world actually could come to an end.

Bill Maher: Plain fact is: religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge, and having key decisions made by religious people, by irrationalists.

Bill Maher: By those who would steer the ship of state not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken.

Bill Maher: Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it, are our intellectual slaveholders - keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction. Religion is dangerous, because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.

Bill Maher: Most people would think that it is wonderful when someone says: "I am willing Lord, I will do what ever you want me to do", except that since there are no Gods actually talking to us, that void is filled in by people, with their own corruptions, and limitations, and agendas.

Bill Maher: And anyone who tells you that they know what happens when you die, I promise you, you don't. How can I be so sure? Because I don't know, and you do not possess mental powers, that I do not.

Bill Maher: The only appropriate attitude for man to have about the big question is not the arrogant certitude that is the hallmark of religion, but doubt. Doubt is humble. And that is what man needs to be considering that human history is just a list of getting shit dead wrong.

Bill Maher: This is why rational people, anti-religionists must end their timidity, and come out of the closet, and assert themselves, and those who consider themselves only moderately religious, really need to look in the mirror and realize that the solace and comfort that religion brings you actually comes at a terrible price.

Bill Maher: If you belong to a political party, or a social club that was tied to as much vicartry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. To do otherwise is to be an enabler - a mafiawife. With the true devils of extremism that draw their legitimacy from the billions of their fellow travellers.

Bill Maher: If the world does come to an end here, or wherever, or if it limbs into the future decimated by the effects of a religion inspired nuclear terrorism - lets remember what the real problem was: that we learned how to precipitate mass death, before we got pass the neurologist disorder of wishing for it.

Bill Maher: That's it. Grow up, or die. (Taken from IMDB)