God is in the next big chess game --- "The Absurdity of Religion, Religulous" Review

Friedrich 2021-12-24 08:01:42

As a person who has a certain degree of skepticism about everything and a history lover, it is really a joy to be able to watch Religulous. Bill Maher, a descendant of Jews, used a very witty way to shoot this documentary. Some At that time, I was really worried about him. Ah's interviewed so many people of different denominations (Christ, God, Mormon, Islam, Cannabis), and many of them were fundamentalists. Watching him tease those fundamentalists, and I was almost beaten, and some people prevented them from taking good shots and blocked it. It is a miracle to be able to make this film.

I suggest you watch this film. I like to explore the continuation of the history of human civilization from the doctrines of various religions. For example, there are some interesting things in this film. Jesus Christ was born on December 25th. In fact, this is the theory that the Persian Empire shaped a god of creation in this way in more than 600 BC. Another example is that a virgin became pregnant and ascended to heaven three days after death. This kind of event is also reported in the records of ancient Egypt. Thinking about this, it's pretty amazing. Human beings should have originated from East Africa, so there are so many similarities among various sects, but this kind of attitude of not accepting the account and being self-sufficient after assimilating it, let's forget it. . .

Meng Fei said a funny joke in If You Are the One. The security guards of every community are philosophers because they think about three basic questions of philosophy every day. Who are you? Where are you from? Where are you going? In fact, everyone will slowly think about this problem, but many people have converted this problem to the power of religion. Belief is a kind of sustenance in times of doubt, but this kind of sustenance does not abandon your id and your pursuit of the superego.

Having said that, I really like a group of people. They are, on the other side of the mountain and the sea, there is a group of Greeks. They are lively and smart, they are naughty and clever, they are great pagans in human history, they Inaugurated the history of Western civilization. Think of the Greeks as joyful. They joyfully believe in polytheism, such as the great Athena. . . . The saints of the goddess, they even dared to fight against the gods non-stop. The Roman Empire has inherited this belief. They enjoy life, take a bath and love to be clean. They often think of this, compared to those poor children in the Middle Ages, such as Louis XIV who did not take a bath.

There is nothing wrong with faith. The terrible thing is that if you have more faith, you feel that your invasion is full of divine brilliance, and then people think that you are a heretic and you are not saved. This attitude has killed too many people in the world, but often, There are too many people with this kind of thinking. They don’t question why God didn’t make mankind perfect, they don’t question why God kept destroying the world in the first period of time. On the one hand, he was very kind and mean, on the other hand, he was stingy. Why don't you come out to mediate? In the film, a woman said: god has his plan. This reminds me of a very familiar sentence. Borrow it, please bear with me, please be quiet, and trust God, he is playing a big chess game.

"The only appropriate attitude for man to have about the big questions is not the arrogant certitude that is the hallmark of religion, but doubt. Doubt is humble, and that's what man needs to be."

Keep your skepticism, because people Thinking is very important. If this God can build the Babel Tower because of the improvement of human beings, and gain the equivalent existence of God, thus destroying the Tongtian Tower and causing humans to fall into disputes, then where does his kindness begin?

Maybe, he is really in the next big chess game.

So, after death, heaven asks him?

ok ,who knows?

hahahahaha

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Religulous quotes

  • Bill Maher: [Extra] What about when innocent people get killed during a "defensive action"?

    Michael Bray: I'm for that. Yeah. It's collateral damage.

    Bill Maher: But it's acceptable?

    Michael Bray: We've got to consider what the real issue is here and what the cost is and the risk.

  • Bill Maher: [Extra] This is the Anne Frank house, when you see it you really understand how true that phrase "The banality of evil" really is. One of the common arguments in defence of religion is that Hitler wasn't religious and neither was Stalin or Mao and they were bad so religion is good. But like religion itself it's an argument that really depends a lot on not thinking too deeply. For one Hitler himself didn't eliminate anyone personally he had a lot of footsoldiers most of whom were good Christians and they pushed people into the ovens. Religion has done a bad job of stepping up and preventing violence-prone bullies from doing their thing. If anything it usually justifies acts of madness. And 20th Century Fascism and Communism while not strictly religions as we've come to think of religion, really were religions. They were state religions. Hitler was seen as infallable and Godlike. Hirohito was absolutely a God on Earth to the Japanese people. We shouldn't get too hung up on the word religion. The bottom line is whether people think and act rationally or not and whenever they organise their lives around something that could best be described as groundlessness bad things happen. Even if the central story seems harmless like there's a God who loves you so much that he had his only Son whacked so that you could keep on sinning. Still, doesn't matter, once reality has left the building, once it's up there in the ether then anything can be extrapolated or tacked on by Preachers and Priesthoods and delusionals and power-hungry pricks. It's not that big a step from "your God is the only God and he loves you very much" to "you really should get out there and start killing for him" Whenever people believe in something utterly groundless because they were told it by a charismatic preacher and Hitler was nothing if not that, all bets are off. Nazism was a religion, a religion based on the insane fiction that Jews were subhuman vermin who did not deserve to live, but people and people not from a primitive society believed it because A they liked the preacher, B the other sheep around them were buying into it even though it was crazy and C it was inextricably tied to their view of a glorious Valhalla-like future. A, B, C. Religion.