Religulous Review: Rabbi Irwin Kula

Noted Author Irwin Kula offers an insightful review to Bill Maher's new film. For more great discussion, please visit www.jinsider.com.

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[Capt777harris]

I think Rabbi Kula missed the thrust of Bill Maher's film, which is that in spite of the thematic artistry and poetry of Judeo-Christian writings the bulk of religous people place both literary as well as metaphoric value on myths and legends as a basis for morality.

And, they allow their religous leaders to place it above common practical sense when it comes to "Earthly" matters. That's the true danger of religion.

[mxb125]

Most religous people dont have the ability to look at Bill's views fairly because they are brainwashed, many frightened into giving money to religous leaders who buy cars, girls,mansions,etc with it...Religion was also used to pacify the slaves in the US....i too wonder how someone else can know things i dont (from a Higher Being)...if God tells them something and not me then its not God, its a made up story. I can't consider something a God that has an ego and needs to be praised all the time.

[TestamentCaine]

Too bad the 10% of the Religion he talks about has brainwashed about 95% of the populous.

[cocky7]

Thought he had some good points until discovered that this Rabbi doesn't even believe in the ark, in his own Tora / Old Testament!!

[Capt777harris]

@handelflesch Which would you rather have, a smug, arrogant, better-than-thou doctor who graduated sigma-cum-laude in a variety of fields of medicine, or the humble idiot who realizes his own limitations, but gives the heart-lung-liver transplant a shot anyway? I may like the second better as a human being, but as a doctor, I prefer the first.

[handelflesch]

@Capt777harris

Actually, i think you have missed the thrust of the Rabbi's superb critique. Bill maher is a self-described agnostic. And yet in this film, he comes across as a smug, intolerant, fundamentalist. Kula gives him credit for being 100% correct about 10% of religion. I wonder if Bill Maher can be that gracious, and find some good in religion--at least in Kula's liberal Judaism.

[rolandsonofstephen]

this movie is aimed at atheists that is obvious to me anyway. the rabbi says that maher is 100 percent positive... the rabbi wasnt paying attention when bill said I am not 100 percent positive there isnt a god . Nice metaphors rabbi but I find them more misleading than anything.

[handelflesch]

Rabbi Kula,

Fabulous review! Most people are "left out of the conversation."

Spot on!

[BillKiernan]

by the way, my mom watched the movie as a born again christian, and no longer is. by no means is the movie solely responsible for that, but it certainly helped.

[BillKiernan]

i'm sorry, but no matter how sophisticated religion has become due to its interaction with influences outside of itself, it is still based on the foundation of the things maher mocks.

[VarialProductions]

I am a proud member of that "fundamental secular society" he was purporting to understand.

No sir.. I am quite confident and secure in my lack of belief in your Religion. And your pseudo intellectual attempts to knock atheism are so last year.

[jpkej997]

Well Said,,,,my faith increased now,,,,I have to be strong,,,,Thanks Bill,,, the more you show the Christians are worst,,,the more christian faith will increase