Bill, Bill, Bill... how much I agree with and how much I hate you. (notice how Larry had to reconduct the interview when our friend Bill started to rant like a madman) if there's a hell it must be something like being stuck in an elevator for 10 hours with Bill on coke. Less proselitism and more fun, that's what your career needs Bill. Of course it is a rip-off of Michael More's style, every lefty documentary made in the last 10 years is. But well, he is a genious that transformed documentaries from boring and self-financed to entertaining and profitable. We can let that one go. Ups, FIRST.

something bill said thats true: the concept of religion is inherently funny.

something he said thats false: its forbidden to film at the western wall. http://www.aish.com/wallcam/

maybe he was there on the sabbath, when it is discouraged by signs (and sometimes belligerent yokels), but the wall is one of the most photographed and filmed spots in jerusalem.

bill isn't as demonized as Michael Moore, this might be a genius stroke if he pulls it off right.

Wait a minute... Bill O'Reilly was right, there is a war on Christmas!

God is just a Santa Claus nobody has told you doesn't exist yet.

glorious. i've been explaining that same thing to my religion afflicted friends for years: "you don't know what happens when you die." you absolutely do not. the very premise of religion, that it can explain the biggest unknown of all, and use it to impose a moral structure on the living, come on. anyone who buys into that is in hell, no need to wait for it, that level of willfull ignorance is hell. here's to the sun, the sky, the trees, the critters, and this fine glass of wine, which is made from grapes, not anyone's blood. mmkay?

The fundies are going to be in a stink about a comedic documentary about religion just as there were about the comedy Dogma. Religion works so hard to be taken seriously they just can't stand having someone laugh in their face like they are being told an absurd fairy tale.

Yeah, where is this Mormon planet exactly?

Hmmm... while I take the point, I'm not so sure I agree with him on the amount of detail given about what happens when you die. They go into excruciating, nitpicking detail about exactly what you have to do to get into heaven (well... the fundamentalist types do, liberal Christians always seem to endorse: 'well... nice people go to Heaven but nice Christians go there better') but curiously lacking in the details of what happens when you go there.

Honestly; if one vision of heaven - that you just sit around basking in god's glory, singing praise of his name - is correct then it's not a binary option for me: it's one hell or another hell. Surely a good god would just let me stay here?

Well, I believe Bill will achieve his primary goal instantly. He'll make people laugh (check) and he'll trick them into THINKING about religion rather than just accepting the paradigm they were raised to believe (check). For some, that's all it will take to start the snowball of rational thought rolling down the hill.

Dani R, when in that interview did Bill "rant like a madman"?

He seemed perfectly calm and reasonable to me.

@Doug (about the mormon planet):

They all get their own. and Kolob (the planet) is where god lives. Oh, and you only get genetailia in the afterlife if you get married in the temple. Then you get to have sex for the rest of eternity and make so many 'soul' babies, that you'll be able to populate your own galaxy with these soul children, and then you become god, and this goes on forever.

If you don't get married in the temple, you get sent to one of 5(!) other places, none of which are hell. "hell" (outer darkness) is only reserved for people who see god directly, and then say "nope, he doesn't exist" (gee, I wonder how many people would do that).

WOW, it all seems so logical and honest, I wonder why i'm not mormon.

Bill Maher is a great thinker/doubter/critic. Can we borrow him? We're gonna need him soon up in Canada with all those conservatives creeping around in Parliament... Can't wait to see the movie though.