Quote Originally Posted by The Stranger View Post
ye that was hilarious, but i mean more on the level of arguments, does Maher make any good points. I mean, he made fun out of a lot of stuff but did he actually say something worthwhile?
the movie is more of a mocking joking movie, more preaching to the choir than a serious debate piece.

a couple of ideas do make it through I think, for example in the scene in the trucker chapel, Bill points out a couple of obvious inconsistencies in the bible, and he doesn´t do it in a nasty or snarly way, he simple says 'ok, but x, y and z are not mentioned anywhere in the bible, why do you follow these ideas?' and the conversation immediately breaks down with a guy that clearly thinks you can´t even question any of this stuff, that's interesting.
but the really interesting part comes after this, Bill gets into a conversation with another trucker, that has a bit of a colorful story (ok whatever) he goes through it and then hits Bill with one of the classic lines religious people always try to use on atheists - "but what if we are right and you are not? we will go to heaven and you won´t"
Here Bill takes that apart brilliantly, pointing out that if you are being good and following these rules just in case they might get you ahead then you are not really good or moral...you are just basically "buying a lottery ticket" because, "hey you can´t win if you don´t play".
this is actually something that comes up quite frequently when you talk with supposedly religious people...that seems to act more as people playing the odds than actual believers.



also the IQ moment for everyone's enjoyment: