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See also ''[[Jesus Camp]]'' for a similar religious documentary produced around the same timeframe.
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* [[A God Am I]]: Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, who claims to be the resurrected Jesus Christ, is interviewed in the film.
* [[Artistic License Religion]]: [[Did Not Do the Research|Everything said]] abut Mithras and [[Egyptian Mythology|Horus]].
* [[Belief Makes You Stupid]]: The basic thesis.
* [[Book Ends]]: The film opens with Bill standing on
* [[Chewbacca Defense]]: The interview with Ken Ham and a few other examples.
* [[Church Militant]]: Bill isn't too fond of these types.
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** During his interview with the head of the Creationist organization Answers in Genesis, Ken Ham:
{{quote|'''Ken:''' God is all knowing, all powerful, He works in mysterious ways.
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'''Bill:''' No. }}
** A better example:
{{quote|'''Bill:''' Jonah living inside of the whale... and their answer, unfailingly, is: "the Bible doesn't say whale, it says big fish." Oh yeah, big fish... [[Sarcasm Mode|now THAT makes sense]]! I'm sorry, I was obsessing on that was a whale! It's a big fish. Of course you can live for three days in a big fish. A tuna. A tuna. [[
** This exchange, to a certain extent:
{{quote|'''Bill:''' It worries me that people who are running my country believe in a talking snake.
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** It's even funnier because that park was used by nutjobs to preach outlandish beliefs, and ''even then'', the real beliefs of Scientology looked crazier by comparison.
* [[Manipulative Editing]]: A number of interviews Bill Maher conducted were later revealed to involve this, as several sources reported:
** Bill did this to Francis Collins, the Christian scientist who headed the Human Genome Project. [http://blog.beliefnet.com/stevenwaldman/2008/10/the-case-against-religulous-th.html Bill Maher deliberately misled Collins into accepting an interview] on the premise that it would be about his book, ''The Language of God'' (which deals with science and faith). Instead, Bill Maher confronted Collins with questions on topics unrelated to his
** Two other scientists, Dean Hamer and Andrew Newberg, were also victims of selective editing, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130911132713/http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/agnostic_machinery/ as this article in Seed Magazine shows].
* [[Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions]]: Invoked by Bill at the end of the film with the demand that the audience "grow up or die."
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: "You see so many nice people trying to make it about something good and yet it turns into not just corrupt, but, like, fucking little kids corrupt."
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* [[Religion of Evil]]: The film attempts to portray Islam above all as this.
* [[Stealth Insult]]: Bill makes this several times in his interviews, the one that takes the cake is the aforementioned interview with Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda.
* [[Surprisingly Similar Stories]]: Invoked by Bill to point out the similarities between the stories of [[Jesus Christ]] and other deities like Mithra, Bacchus, Horus and many more. Of course, there's a slight problem in that the stories of Mithra, Horus, Bacchus and many more are [[Sadly Mythtaken|not really like what Bill Maher thinks]].
* [[Who Writes This Crap?]]: His reaction while reviewing the beliefs of several religions, like Mormonism and Scientology.
* [[You Keep Using That Word]]: During an interview with a United States Senator who believes in creationism, he uses the word "indigous", which the subtitles note isn't really a word ([[Don't Explain the Joke|he was probably thinking of "indigenous"]]).
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[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]
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