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Colorado Magazine October 27th – November 2nd, 2008
Oct 27th
It’s time now for Colorado Magazine with Jann Scott, Colorado’s number 1 TV talk show host, In this show it’s our Halloween Special, first up its Backyard Birds with the Boulder Birdman: Steve Frye from The Wild Bird Center in Boulder, Doug Duncan gives us some Winter Tips for auto maintenance, The Sky Guy tells us all bout Comets and Shooting Stars. They’re back: Swatch Watches in Boulder and the only place to find them in the western states is at the Swiss Chalet Watch and Clock Shop. Scott Creevy shows us how to make his Pumpkin Breads, Hotshots by Dan Culberson reviews the movie Religulous, and it’s Jann Scott boxing on Personal Training with Rick Jones, then we wrap up the show at the Boulder’s Farmers Market all coming up next on Colorado Magazine.
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“Religulous” Lecturing to the Nonreligious
Oct 9th
Lecturing to the Nonreligious
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
RELIGULOUS (rhymes with “ridiculous is a very funny and thought-provoking documentary about the major religions of the world (with a passing nod to Scientology, even) and how fundamentalists and religious extremists can be seen as, well, ridiculous.
Comedian and satirist Bill Maher narrates the film and conducts interviews all over the planet, talking to leaders and followers of religions in a humorous and thought-provoking attempt to convince the audience that the religions and their followers are, well, ridiculous to believe in such claptrap.
As Maher says right at the beginning, “If there’s one thing I hate more than prophecy, it’s self-fulfilling prophecy.”
Maher himself knows more than a little bit about religion, as he tells us, because his mother was Jewish, his father was Catholic, and his family went to Catholic church every Sunday until Maher was 13, and then they just stopped.
We see Maher talking with his mother and his sister, too, and when he asks his mother about this, he asks her why his father just suddenly quit the church, and she answers, “I don’t know. We never discussed it.”
Maher also questions why believing in something without any evidence is “good” and then answers his own question with “It’s like the lotto. You can’t be saved if you don’t believe.”
And, of course, many people actually believe that. However, Maher also tells us that 16% of Americans say that they belong to no church and are therefore nonreligious.
The graphics are quite good, and many of the interviews are accompanied by film clips from old biblical movies as commentary to what is being said or claimed to be “true.”
We learn that in Italy, which is a very religious country, in a time of crisis, Jesus ranks only sixth as being called upon for comfort by the people. Maher then gets thrown out of the Vatican there.
He also gets thrown off the property in Salt Lake City when his film crew draws attention to what he is doing. If the religious believers don’t watch out, they could be accused of not having a sense of humor.
Although quite humorous, the film ends on a rather serious note as Maher covers religious predictions for the end of the world.
RELIGULOUS (rhymes with “ridiculous is not preaching to the choir so much as lecturing to the nonreligious.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
Religulous – Movie Trailer
Sep 6th
Borat director Larry Charles follows host Bill Maher as he travels the continents interviewing various subjects about God and religion.