RELIGULOUS The word is a combination of religion and ridiculous and is Bill Maher's take on this subject.
I've always enjoyed Bill Maher's sense of HUMOR. His political satire shows on TV are biting & often extremely accurate. He brings interesting political types to awareness...... I don't go to many movies, I'd seen some religious groups making youtube videos asking for a boycott on this one. And recently I've heard Maher say some pretty strange things about faith and superstition.... SO I decided to see the movie and write a blistering review of it. WELL, I've seen it and I would say unequivocally ************************************************* Any person of FAITH will have NO problem with this movie. ************************************************* I thought the best part was when the truckers prayed over Bill Maher.... Bill Maher thanked them for being Christlike. But remember one trucker got angry & left when Maher started asking questions after church service. This movie is a great threat to people with only BELIEF as a guide. Bill Maher didn't make any distinction between FAITH and BELIEF which in my humble opinion was his big mistake. Faith is the result of EXPERIENCING ultimate reality (GOD) and from a point of KNOWLEDGE having FAITH that GOD is the correct reality even when we don't yet experience GOD 24/7. BELIEF - is a WORKING knowledge that something is true. You might believe milk/apple cider vinegar/honey is good for your body, You might believe the Phillies/Lakers/Steelers are the best sports team. You might believe every word in the BIBLE is directly from GOD. And beliefs DO help us grow. BELIEF is the cast to help mold us to the better values we want for ourself. But lets not become a cult of the CAST! We use structures to grow our FAITH, we get strong enough for FAITH to live in us. When we're strong and healthy we can walk without a cast. That doesn't mean we won't be walking with GOD, it just means SOME BELIEFS, some structures may have fallen away in importance. How big is your GOD? That's the title of a book I haven't yet read, but I like the idea. I think however much we travel on the spiritual path, our concept of GOD just keeps getting BIGGER and BIGGER. "Where were you when I made heaven and earth?" GOD ask Job in the Old Testament. With our limited little human knowledge we might really NOT KNOW all the answers. That's OK. Jesus said to Love GOD and to Love your neighbor as yourself. It seems to me if you try to love the people that are hard to love, with God's help you WILL be expanding GOD in your life. Tim Lehaye, G.W. Bush, Donald Rumsfield and Sarah Palin share the BELIEF that we need a big war in the middle east so the second coming of Jesus will happen! I'm pretty sure Jesus never said that! I think there are probably as many paths to GOD as there are people. It doesn't seem very smart to think you have the ONLY TRUTH in your little bucket. FOR SURE, whatever you believe is TRUE FOR YOU at this point in time..... but GOD has that tricky trait of always EXPANDING. PLEASE LET GOD EXPAND IN YOUR LIFE! In the aspect of letting GOD expand, it doesn't seem like Bill Maher's movie is a very good idea....to poke fun of religion. But if BELIEF rather than FAITH has taken over as RELIGION maybe it's an OK idea for a comedian to do what he does best. Hello Fairfielders. I didn't write this for you guys as I know you're much more "snarky" than my 100 first cousins I actually wrote this for...... but remember the Foo Bird!
