From Craig Hazen's review of Bill Mayer's laff-riot Religulous:
"There is little to laugh at and nothing to learn (except maybe that if you quit being Religulous you get to act like Caligulous)."
Now that's a quote!
There's actually more than a kernel of truth to it. While atheists like to drape themselves in rationality and superior thinking skills, in fact atheism is just as often embraced because as a philosophy of life it releases a person to live a hedonistic lifestyle. (How many people attending this -- http://tinyurl.com/5okjno -- will be attending church on Sunday?!)
For the complete article:
http://www.philchristi.org/library/articles.asp?pid=57&mode=detail
For more on Caligula:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula
3 comments:
It would be clever, if 'Religulous' is pronounced with a hard 'g', except that it's a soft 'g', so it doesn't make sense.
Also, morals don't require religion, but that goes without saying.
Absolutely. Moral sense is designed-in. Which is why we are accountable to God whether we believe in him or not, and will be judged by Jesus Christ whether we have heard of him or not.
You've heard of him -- so this makes you doubly-accountable for the inward moral sense you have.
Live with it.
"if 'Religulous' is pronounced with a hard 'g', except that it's a soft 'g', so it doesn't make sense."
David, David, David.
Don't be ridigulous.
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