As you may already know (or have seen it), Bill Maher – with director Larry Charles (from ‘Borat’) – has made the new movie Religulous. It came out on October 3. In an interview, Maher described his approach to the movie as confronting people of faith. He said, “In America, every politician gets on the stage and as many times as he can, he reassures every audience that he is a person of faith, that faith guides his decision-making, that faith is the most important thing in his life. The more he says this, the more applause he gets. And I just wanted to ask, why is this good? why is faith, which I define as suspending critical thinking, a good thing, especially in your job?” According to John Leland, “Mr. Maher said he intended the movie as a call to action, not to convince religious people to join his camp but to stir the nonreligious to unite,” while the director approached the movie as non-fiction comedy rather than as a documentary. Interestingly, Bill Maher has also said, “anyone who's religious is extremist.”
