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...memorial service held Friday afternoon, friends, family, and colleagues spoke of Maher??s witty and personable nature as well as his time in the British Royal Navy and the summers he spent in Nova Scotia with his family...
...oppose same-sex marriage, and do not believe that the messiah will only come when the children of Israel inhabit their whole homeland. Despite their near-constant presence in newsprint and political media, evangelical Christians constitute only 26.3 percent of religious adults in America. Yet, if Bill Maher??s recent film “Religulous” and a wave of secularist polemics are any indication, extreme religious views are being used to justify the wholesale abandonment of all religion...
...Maher??s odyssey begins and ends in Megiddo, Israel, where some Christians believe the world will come to an end. The film starts out as rocky as the desert terrain on which Maher stands, clad in a sleek black suit, ready to take on modern religious extremists. Maher then appears driving in his car, engaged in a vain monologue that is unfortunately spliced throughout the film, causing it to lag. Luckily, most things that come out of Maher??s mouth tend to be downright hilarious—you just have to get past the fact that...
...what really makes the film are Maher??s interviews with the religious elite, including Dr. Jeremiah Cummings, a bling-blinging sugar daddy of a preacher who defends his wealth by citing Jesus’ possession of “fine linen.” Another notable subject is Ken Ham, president of the creationist group Answers In Genesis, whose bold statement, “If you believe in evolution, you’d have to believe women came from ape-women,” clearly puts an end to evolutionary theory. There’s also Jos?...
...must not forget John Westcott, the “ex-gay” founder of Exchange Ministries, who believes nobody’s gay and yet gays are born gay and are actually gay because of their insecurities, despite Maher??s rebuttal that it takes a lot of security to walk out of the house in assless chaps. The two make peace in the end, as Westcott bounces over to Maher to give him a hug to the underscoring of the “Brokeback Mountain” theme song. This moment is almost matched when...