Posts under ‘Film’

I’m trying to get an atheist film festival going. I talked to Philip Cowan, the Executive Director of the Grand Cinema (very nice man), and he said that his main concern is getting the films into the maximum number of slots available, to make the distributors happy. I understand his predicament. But he says that [...]

This movie, about Hypatia, is an indictment of fundamentalism and of the intolerance of belief. It recently debuted in Cannes.
Set in 4th century Alexandria in Egypt, during the onset of decadence in the Roman Empire, Oscar-winner Rachel Weisz (“The Constant Gardener”) portrays the legendary Hypatia, who devoted herself to science, the search for truth and [...]

Just watched Religulous. I hope Bill Maher doesn’t mind that I transcribed his closing sequence of the movie, because it’s just so good: 
The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses, the world actually could come to an end. 
The plain fact is that religion must die for mankind [...]

Tacoma Atheists and Seattle Atheists check out the movie “Religulous” by comedian Bill Maher, in which he examines the role of religion in news stories of recent years — from Muslim riots over cartoons to the Ten Commandments in front of courthouses, to a born-again Christian in the White House and Scientology in the birthing [...]