i have be a fan of all thing bill maher for 15 year but this film be disappointing and at time disgust . of course and i be catholic and come from a well educate family and go to church of my own volition and which probably put me at end with quite a few of bill opinion . bill problem be that he presume that religion be uniformly negative . he correct to document the sociological aspect of it i. e. one faith build it holiday on top of another and that many war have be start because of religion ( or and more accurately and by the sinister appeal of men to the ultimate and unquestionable authority of god ) and but that say he never look at it positive side . quite frankly and i think that hell would freeze over before bill would ever humble himself and travel to the slum of calcutta where mother theresa spend her life work with the poor of the poor . she dead now of course and but he could easily visit the jesuit priest in east la who run homeboy industry and which work with young men typically with gang and prison background to teach them career skill and get their tattoo remove and and to become responsible member of society and or he could visit usc institute for advanced catholic study and which have bring together some of the world finest theologian and diplomat and and investment banker to study way in which to ethically integrate the world poorest country into global capital market and thereby improve the standard of living for the half of the world people who live on less than $ 1 a day . of course he would not do that because that would require him to consider evidence that do not easily fit into his preconceive belief about religion and and it so much easy to continue to make snide and superficial joke . that fit into the other large problem with bill movie and which be that he never subject himself to anyone either on his level or who be good than he be . in this movie and you have maher the cornell grad spend most of his time talk down to truck driver at a nondenominational christian truck stop service and in a night club with a dutch guy who smoke pot all the time and with the minister of a storefront church in miami who claim to be the reincarnation of christ and and with an actor play jesus at a holy land theme park . what you would not see in bill film and beyond some superficial speculation alongside a ph . d in grand central station that religion chemically alter the brain like drug do and that religion be the fallacy of tradition wrought on the mass and be any sort of serious and question interview with philosophy and theology professor from school like notre dame and byu and or wheaton college and who could easily rhetorically decapitate him in a debate on the matter . you would not see any serious discussion of any of the writing of c. s. lewis and g. k. chesterton and or any papal encyclical and and of course you also would not find any discussion whatsoever of any of the non abrahamic ( judaism and christianity and and islam ) faiths whatsoever . all you get at the end of the day be a textbook example of a condescending and snobby elitist from the west side of la who make a movie for his own kind and who have absolutely no gut level understand whatsoever of how the other half of america that elect george w. bush ( twice ) live their life or about the school of thought behind it . i get a lot of what bill say and but for someone possess his intellect and influence and this film be nothing less than pathetic . anyone interested in the kind of intellectual ferment that indie documentary typically bring could find more stimulation in an old rerun of the teletubbies .