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God and Maher and Arkansas

Thanks to Phil for a link to this trailer (now I have it from YouTube above) of a new Bill Maher movie, "Religulous," in which he travels to interview people about God and religion. Noted: an Arkansas angle. The trailer includes a snippet of an interview with U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor, who comments with a smile in response to a question about beliefs held by some politicians: "You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate."

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Hmmm, it played in my Itunes. No mention of Quick Time download. Nobody does it better than Maher. Pryor's smirky giggle won't be flattering when this hits the streets. My, oh my.

can't wait to see this. i agree about pryor's giggle. i am wondering why he was stupid enough to put his face on this.? any politican going in a bill mahr movie should worry about looking bad and pryor is not sharp enough to handle him. that is about like larry craig taking on stephen colbert, no contest.

>>Hmmm, it played in my Itunes. No mention of Quick Time download.<<

You dwld Quick Time when you dwld iTunes. It's a package. No money made from quicktime, but they attempt to sell you mucho music with iTunes.

No wondering where I will be come Oct 3, earlier if possible. Thanks Max. Should be a howler.


While awaiting Religulous to debut you may want to check your god against all the others and see how s/he measures up.

godchecker on bluename

"you don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate" so says Mark Pryor. Mark Pryor is the perfect example of his own quote.

Allah (or whomever) help us all!

Bill Maher: "It worries me that there are people running our country who believe in a talking WHAT?"

Saint? Satan?

Snake. It's in the bible

Bill Maher: "It worries me that there are people running our country who believe in a talking WHAT?"<<<

Snake

You know...I think we need to launch Operation Chaos: Arkansas Edition. Convince as many Republicans as you can to "waste" their vote on Kennedy in an attempt to embarrass Pryor. Don't let them believe for a second that she has a chance to win, or they'll never fall for it. Then, convince as many jaded Dems as you can to cast a protest vote for her. Who knows? Arkansas might end up with the first Green Party Senator.


1 Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

2 Genesis 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3 Genesis 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

4 Genesis 3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

5 Genesis 3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

Thus began mankind's original sin, all at the hand of a talking snake. God created some pretty stupid people huh?

It's been said already but Pryor's giggle makes me cringe a little...

But I can't wait to see it. I wonder how many times Maher comes close to getting his ass whipped by the super zealots...especially that feller that didn't believe in Santa Claus...I mean, Santa sure visits our house every year...sheesh...

Snake. Of course.

G.W. Bush IS a talking snake.

"G.W. Bush IS a talking snake."


That's probably the best PSA I've ever heard. You almost expect it to be followed by "The More You Know" jingle.

G.W. Bush IS a talking snake.<<

Nah. He worked hard to be our Monkey Boy. Darth makes a better snake.

Oh hahaha. this one is gonna be good. cant wait to see it.

All y'all who "can't wait to see it" better live within driving distance of LR's Market Street Cinema because there sure as hell ain't ANOTHER theater owner in Arkansas with the balls to show a Bill Maher flick.

I don't do movie theaters, Ill skip the crunching,coughing,hacking, sniffling ,whispering, and paper crinkling crowds. Thank you very much. I'll watch it on my laptop at home in my comfy clean chair. and if it's as good as I think it will be I'll watch it again and share it with my friends.

AliJB may I ask what movie sites you use?

I got this site from Hugh Mann, it rocks /click name

I want to see "Recount" and "John Adams" but can't find them online yet :(

p.s.

Maher/Carlin '08

Btjunkie.com
Using azureus

Thanks,

I trust everyone here has seen "Zeitgeist"?

/click name

Yeah, that Bush hugging, LIEberman loving Pryor is just a laugh riot! I can see why some people might believe in God, but I'll never figure out why anyone believes in Mark W. Pryor. He's proof that you don't have to take an IQ test to be in the Senate and that there are no tests whatsoever to be in the Democratic Party.

I guess Howard Dean was just too busy with other things to notice that Pryor is no Democrat. One would have to believe that the Arkansas Democratic Party thinks it's just ducky to have Republican masquerading as a Democrat in worst times than we've seen in 80 years. Now is not the time to come to the aid of your country....it's time to elevate Jesus to the Supreme Court and make a whole bushel of Bush Bucks while no one's watching the hen house.

I'm sure Maher's movie will be funny. A few years ago I skipped going to see The Lion King on Broadway with the family. I snuck down Broadway to a little theater and caught Maher live. Yeah....Maher's movie will be great......not so Mark W. Pryor. We can dump him this fall if we hang him with his own record. Tell people who say they can't vote for someone from a 3rd party that we already have a Senator from a 3rd party....Mark Pryor is a LIEbercrat!

I don't know, MannishBoy. Richard Dawson's ("The God Delusion") lecture for the Clinton Library series drew over 1,500 attendees. Largest audience for that series so far.

So I expect Maher's film will play in more theatres than Market Street.

And thanks, Rev. Mojo, for your link to the "Zeitgeist." Information about the origins of religion everybody needs to know.

Here's some more: a film that preceded "Zeitgeist" by a few years. On my bluename.

Are you a Fundie -- In case you miss it the first time it was posted.

10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of your god.

9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from lesser life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.

8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Trinity god.

7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" -- including women, children, and trees!

6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.

5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loop-holes in the scientifically established age of the Earth (4.55 billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by pre-historic tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that the Earth is a couple of generations old.

4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects -- will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet you consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving".

3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to prove Christianity.

2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.

1 - You actually know a lot less than many Atheists and Agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history -- but still call yourself a Christian.

"God made me an atheist. Who are you to question his wisdom?"

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain." -- Gene Roddenberry

Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?
--Arthur C. Clarke

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