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Religulous

I am not a fan of Bill Maher. As a matter of fact, I find him to be annoying. His obnoxiousness does not appeal to me. But I watched Maher’s “Religulous.” Essentially, it is a documentary that pokes fun at the credulity of religious people and the ridiculousness of religious claims (Christianity in particular). Although I am a Christian, I surprisingly like “Religulous.” It appears sacrilegious or blasphemous for a Christian to watch it. But I think that Christians should watch it. Rottenness is sometimes not readily visible. It infects the inner core and gradually sets the process of decay. Sometimes the truth about a certain condition becomes more visible, when someone uninhibitedly brings out in the open the rottenness of what many consider to be sacred. So, there has to be a playing field, where nothing is sacred. In that playing field, we discover even that which is initially unimaginable. In a playing field where freethinking is suppressed in order to protect the sacred, the mind