Ben Stein’s Expelled isn’t the only ridiculous movie attached to an even more ridiculous publicity campaign.
Bill Maher, the HBO host who still allows Arianna Huffington on the show, teamed with Borat director Larry Charles for Religulous, named after, of course, the combination of “religion” and “ridiculous.” The documentary, dubbed “the nonfiction film about the greatest fiction ever told,” focuses on various religious sects, “including Jews for Jesus, Muslims, polygamists, Satanists, Hasidic Scholars and even Rael of the Raelian Movement.”
And though you’ll have to wait until October to catch the film in theatres, if the religious right lets it even get that far, Maher & Co. have already set up a website to push their agenda. It’s Disbeliefnet.com, a simple and clever take on the surprisingly valuable Beliefnet.com, which is now owned by News Corp., that you can troll for the next few months learning about exciting groups like the Neturei Karta, “an anti-Zionist sect of Orthodox Judaism that denounces the Israeli government as heretics for its efforts to obtain and secure a sovereign state before the return of the Messiah.”
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