While this is not exactly a BOBA, as it does not necessarily deal with an argument per se, it did seem to qualify for entry into the BOBA Digest nonetheless.
Last night, on the Charlie Rose show, as Bill Maher and Larry Charles pontificated about their own brilliance in the face of those people-you know, the religious folk-I could not help but think that on the opening weekend of their atheism movie “Religulous” they came in far behind the number one movie “Beverly Hills Chihuahua.”
Yes, that little pint-sized puppy scrapped with the big dog and showed him that a little nice beats a whole career built on expressing personal prejudice.
On its opening weekend the atheism movie Religulous‘ box office rank was ten with Beverly Hills Chihuahua coming in at number one the “Christian movie” Fireproof came in at number 8 and a comedy that utterly demolishes the far left liberal movement, particularly Michael Moore, entitled An American Carole came in at number 9.
I would think, I would imagine, I would hope that both atheists and Christians are more than read to abscond from Bill Maher’s style of arguments from outrage and make attempts to engage in civil discourse.
from An American Carole
A more apt title for the atheism movie I could not imagine as the term “Religulous” so succinctly capture’s Bill Maher’s modis operandi and is a great appeal to the particular New Atheist sect of atheism which espouses belligerence over substance.
Bill Maher stated that he is getting email from people telling him that at the end of his atheism movie people actually clapped and he asked when the last time people clapped at the end of a movie. Well, let’s see…what day is it? Just last week when I went to see An American Carole people clapped when the movie was over. And yet, in both cases there sympathetic audiences-so what of it?
