1. Trailer for Religulous

Comment #190660 by briancarnell on June 9, 2008 at 10:46 am

@12 ... I think toddaa @23 did a good job of expressing where I was going. The complaints about "ad hominem" seem a bit odd in that this is movie doesn't appear to be making a serious argument other than "lets laugh at the crazy religious people"...fronted by a man who himself is a fan of any number of pseudoscientific claims.

2. Trailer for Religulous

Comment #190517 by briancarnell on June 9, 2008 at 8:15 am

@1 wrote:

"The discussion about ridiculous beliefs needs to spread from books and editorials to the bowling alley and pub, where the average Joe is. Bill Maher is as average as they come and I think that's a good thing. "

Bill Maher is a vocal opponent of disease research that utilizes animal models. In fact, much of Maher's animal rights views are rather religious in tone and nature, such as in http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/04.06.05/maher-0514.html">this 2005 interview:

Acknowledging that he sympathizes with animals more deeply than he does with the human race, Maher says, "We are sentient in ways animals are not. Animals are innocent. They're not mean, they don't plot." By contrast, Maher observes, "people are irredeemably fallen."