tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27078130.post6286995272226243335..comments2024-01-04T03:48:46.920-08:00Comments on Reinventing the Adventist Wheel: Movie Review: Religulous (2008)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27078130.post-54140953350827908192009-02-01T21:51:00.000-08:002009-02-01T21:51:00.000-08:00I thought the movie was both funny and tragic. I ...I thought the movie was both funny and tragic. I think you missed the point of how moderate believers are enablers of the fundamentalists within their own groups. They sustain the credibility of the violent messages contained within their own scriptures.<BR/><BR/>Moderates, fortunately, do not carry out the violence taught in these stories or statements. Moderates seem to have the ability to do the mental gymnastics required to make these statements seem reasonable to their own minds, but they are never willing to throw the statements out because they are connected with the words of their god or his prophets.<BR/><BR/>That's the main point of the movie and I think he presented his argument very well.Richard Hartyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01308270901432923724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27078130.post-4297526466858844432009-01-25T06:11:00.000-08:002009-01-25T06:11:00.000-08:00It's funny how the other side was crying "foul" be...It's funny how the other side was crying "foul" because <I>Expelled</I> was interviewing people under false pretenses, but Maher comes along and does the same thing. I am not saying it was right for the former to do, but there seems to be a double-standard.<BR/><BR/>I guess this shouldn't come as all that much of a shock, though.Shawn Bracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10603380405719498288noreply@blogger.com