That means I can be a senator and get good money and make decisions that influence the country....but I'm not good at the art of lying ._. Unfortunately..
Those in the plane where blessed in asholism and bullshiting. Praise the lord, or the humans that make a living on selling smoke to those ignorant and naive centuries ago!!!
@@charmicarmicat2981 it’s for real televangelist, and he for real did this. Obviously, in a delivered attempt to dupe people into thinking he can speak in tongues and is, therefore the voice of God.
A:"It worries me that people are running my country who believe in a talking snake" B:"You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate." He just completely destroyed the Senate, Christianity and himself.
It's funny to think that 15 years ago, I would not have brought myself to watch this documentary. Well, that was then and this is now. I've see it at least 5 times!
This ties into the greater problem of religion... it separates for no reason other than "My God is better than your God." The saddest part is that us, atheists and agnostics, are labeled the REALLY crazy ones because we don't need to talk to the sky every time we're low on gas or our pet is vomiting.
I've never thought about it that way before !I think I'll stop calling myself an atheist and just react as if for the first time to anyone who talks about their god.
if everyone really thought about it, everyone is born an atheist. It takes religious people to indoctrinate and warp children's minds for them to be affected by the neurological disorder that is religion. it is so sad.
This documentary helped me come to terms with being an atheist ! I felt so alone in my lack of belief and this movie made me realize IM NOT ALONE..... AND IM RIGHT ! Ha
@@peaceful_warrior7627 what isn't real or true. What is true, is hard to prove and defend, but nonsense is rather easy to expose, and modern religion is full of it.
@@peaceful_warrior7627 lol ok I will. The sun doesn't set in a muddy spring like the Quran says, and it claims we can't enter the heavens above the sky yet humans have been on the moon and are currently in orbit around earth like on the ISS. Therefore Islam isn't true, just like Christianity which also makes similar claims like there being a magical firmament that separates the waters above from below, yet there's no ocean up in space.
My biological family are mainly 'born again' fundamentalist christians. My dad was convinced that metal music was 'satanic' and wouldn't allow Black Sabbath records in the house for years, not until I was in my late teens. This isn't hicksville in the US in the 1950's by the way. This is England in the 1990's. He seemed to think the records had some kind of evil power and I think he said that it could summon demons. He allowed my older brother to have metal records eventually but when my brother did something he didn't like he would punish him. Once I remember my dad smashing up all his Iron Maiden records- and he had all of the albums including the singles. My older brother was an artistic and creative person and I remember him making this costume with one of his mates- that too was deemed 'satanic' by my dad and was destroyed on a bonfire in the garden. He also did this amazing mural of the Iron Maiden mascot, Eddie, that covered his bedroom door and the wall surrounding it. It was destroyed for the same reason. Unfortunately, my older brother is no longer such a non-conformist. He doesn't question things anymore and he actually goes along with all this christian nonsense and is somewhat of a religious conspiracy theorist who watches God TV etc and reads the Bible and believes in all the prophecy bullshit. It's like something has sucked all the creativity and individuality out of him. I remember him laughing when Israeli troops going into Gaza was on the TV. I remember him saying that homosexual people should be put in prison like they are in parts of Africa. When I was about ten years old my family took me on a 'holiday' in Sussex. It was in the middle of nowhere in the countryside in Sussex in a big manor house. It was a complex, there were different buildings, the place was called Ashburnham. What I didn't realise, what they didn't tell me was that this was a religious holiday. I figured that out only when I got there and everyone was going on about Jesus. The parents were separated from the kids and we had to attend these groups with christian minders who made us do these activities based around Jesus and the Bible, they were basically religious teachers. Everything was related to Jesus and stuff from the Bible, even playing football and watching films. It was basically brainwashing. It was horrible and I couldn't leave and had to endure the whole thing even though by then I didn't really believe in christianity. My mum believed in all this and believed it stronger than my dad at times (for a time he wasn't deeply into it and questioned it- something she would mock and berate him for) but sometimes objected to the way he treated her as the patriarchal 'head of the house', a title he was keen to remind us of, especially in his deeper religious phases. He once explained to my mum that according to the Bible it was allowed that if a women hits a man, it is written that he is allowed to cut off the hand of hers that struck him- and he was serious, finding it amusing also. I have been a witness to every kind of bigotry and chauvinism you can imagine from my biological family, genocidally racist views included. My Dad, in a discussion I had with him about the Iraq war, stated that the Iraqi children who died because of the sanctions that were imposed on Iraq in the 1990s was a punishment from god because of stuff in the bible that he thought was real. They all believed that arabs were evil and that they were 'satanic' and that Israel had a right to oppress and kill the Palestinians and take all their land and attack whoever they pleased. I remember my Mum ranting furiously about how gay people thought they could do as they liked but would "get what was coming to them when after they die". They were very zionist and they would 'talk in tongues' which was really creepy. I am convinced from what I have experienced that their belief and the way they practice their religion is a type of mental illness, aswell as fanaticism. Myself and my other brother don't believe in it and have nothing to do with the family anymore.
I'm in awe of your comment; it made my day. You're a very strong person, and I would be humbled in your presence. I can't say I would survive that kind of brainwashing if I lived in a family like that. My father and I no longer speak because I rejected Christianity. He, too, attempted to convert me many times..strange church events out in the middle of nowhere..all these people with fake smiles on like eerie robots..punishment for disagreeing, and the list continues. I feel great having liberated myself. I'm happy for you as well. It's like breathing again. True freedom of the mind and soul.
I went to that "museum" omg it was so entertaining I could hardly contain my laughter. While everybody was reading the plaques I was amused how everybody was taking it so serious. The first thing you see walking in is a dinosaur next to a mannequin, priceless!
The best part of this movie is when he's talking to the Muslims about hating women and they say oh no we love women they even have their own corner over there xD
That senator just outed himself and every other congressman in the universe. I guess what the Senate does on a daily basis simply is not rocket science...
Literally the #1 best documentary of all time that I have seen hands down. So informative, mind-blown, true investigative skills that give a profound insight on religion and that age old question "Does God exist"?
You know I laughed at this but then I stopped with a thought, these people really believe this absolute nonsense, and then a sobering thought came over even that, these people HAVE INFLUENCE over other people!
"these people really believe this absolute nonsense, and then a sobering thought came over even that, these people HAVE INFLUENCE over other people!" Welcome to MY recurring full-bore, wake-the-fuck-up-shrieking-and-drenched-in-sweat nightmare, Michael. That thought TERRIFIES me.
Chris Johnson There's a damned good REASON there is supposed to be separation of church and state. History is just FULL of some pretty grim examples of what happens when there isn't. I don't want religion to be the basis of political decisions, PERIOD.
+HotshotGTar Holy frack I think you've stumbled upon the real reason why God keeps punishing us! IF you're going to start a religion based on this revelation, ping me I'd love a nice high priest position.
The funny thing is the black stone is a reminiscence of the pre-Islamic Arabic religions of worshipping things in nature and should be considered as quite un-Islamic but ok.
mike wiitala Jesus gave us "Love your enemy" "Treat others as you would have them treat you". Could air travel have been possible without Christian morals?
spaciousky That's the general Christian exhortation. Forgiveness, however, does not constitute approval...or being a proverbial doormat. In Christian theology, the individual to whom the offence is done will still be hurt...grievously, but it takes great courage to let go of the hate and put in its place the love of God. I still would be angry as hell at the terrorists. But others may perform the superhuman act of forgiveness. 'Tis said the act of forgiveness, rather than being weakness, is strength; a way that few will undertake.
Chris Seals The difference between islam and christianity, is that islam doesn't lie about being violent. More people have died in the name of this guy jesus and god than in the name of allah.
During the senator's scene at the beginning, their faces are priceless. Maher looks like he's stuck with a madman, and the senator gives this hilarious look of dread.
I saw lots of people look at Bill, just speechless, in this film....the only time I saw BILL with that look was when the dude said, "You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the senate"......
Interesting that you bring this up. All right, let's conduct a thought experiment. Abraham Lincoln (along with the anti-slavery abolitionists) believes in his heart that the peculiar institution of slavery is morally wrong. Likewise,Martin Luther King, Jr. (along with the participants of the Civil Rights movement) believe that institutionalized racism is morally wrong. They both say, "I believe it because it makes me fell good about myself. But I don't want to push that belief on other people." If this was the attitude that Abe Lincoln and MLK took on their beliefs, it's far from likely that slavery and racism would be uprooted from American society. When it came to these two evils, they could not just stand by and let slavery and racism destroy the fabric of America. They had to act, which meant pushing their beliefs of the person's human dignity on the society because those institutions of evil were dehumanizing to human beings. If people like Abe Lincoln and MLK and others who simply believed what they wanted to believe, but did not put it into practice, then we can forget about equal human rights under the law and the dignity of the human person.
DavyTheEntertainer abe and MLK needed to "push their beliefs" because slavery and racism interferes with other people´s rights. but if someone were to just hold racist views but would not act on them - meaning, would not beat or kill blacks and other minorities, but only like maybe avoid contact with them, than it´s different. same with religion. if someone just believes in god, but would not want to kill people or make hate protests for disagreeing with religion, than i don´t see much problem.
Unfortunately, I live 20 minutes away from the Creation Museum. Be glad, if you don't live near it and have to see dumb ads for it. Although there aren't many fundies in Northern Kentucky, the few who live in this area are extremely annoying and rather cult-like.
I live close to holy land and see alot of crazy shit they have one free day and some legit mulisms from the gaza strip and dumb family's and people that are just curious about the place i am quite suprised the mulisms didn't try to blow it up yet
Personally, I am very impressed with Bill Maher's provocative documentary, "Religulous." It helped me to understand what the reality of organized religion has been about. Furthermore, I take serious pride in being an ATHEIST as well.
Religious people are known to have the schizotypal personality disorder which is a mild version of schizophrenia. Stanford University professor Robert Sapolsky has a good lecture on it.
4:20 That Priest (and the odd skimming through Aquinas) makes me oddly proud of having been raised a Catholic. Doesn't make up for all the bunk, hatred of sex and women, and child rape, but at least there's a faint trace of real intellectual tradition in that religion (the odd Galileo aside). Dawkins interviews him, too. It's a great conversation.
religion is something stupid people use to feel smart. like the idiot coal miners... all of them are m'urican cristchinz so if you ask them how the coal ended up in the ground in the first place, they'll all say the same shit: 'god put da coe in da ground fer us to use'
The woman saying she's "gonna go out on the rapture, and come back on a white horse" looks SO MUCH like Ellen Burstyn in the throes of speed-induced psychosis in the movie Requiem for a Dream.
The Robert Tilton footage is great. For those who don't know, he was a televangelist quack who nursed a cocaine addiction with the 20th century equivalent of medieval indulgences. Diane Sawyer exposed him on ABC's Primetime Live in 1991. Query "Farting Preacher" for a funny parody of him.
I knew once an old granny who didn't sleep well at night because she waited for Jesus coming as a thief at night to rapture his people. Christians sometimes, or all the time don't make sense, I just hope that granny flies up in a white horse.
I see a lot of good natured people being raised and taught not to question authority but to simply belief blindly. I honestly feel like if people would be taught HOW to think as oppose to what to think this world wouldn't have religion.
