Religulous (2008)
Mark Pryor: Self
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Quotes
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Bill Maher : See, this is my problem, I'm trying - I mean, you're - you're a Senator. You are one of the very few people who are really running this country. It worries me that people are running my country who think - who believe in a talking snake. Um...
Mark Pryor : [Arkansas' Democratic Senator] You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate, though.
[chuckles]
Bill Maher : [Bill is silent and unimpressed. The Senator's face falls]
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Bill Maher : There's been more killing in the name of "my God."
Mark Pryor : [Arkansas' Democratic Senator] So you think we indigously
[made up word]
Mark Pryor : or just by our DNA, we just somehow know that killing another person is wrong? I'm not sure that is the case.
Bill Maher : Really? We need God to decide not to kill each other?
Mark Pryor : Well, you can look back at more primitive cultures and they were constantly at war.
[subtitled "Modern Culture," war footage is shown]
Mark Pryor : [subtitled "Modern Culture," war footage of bombings and mass destruction is shown]
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Bill Maher : But it's not really a wise list of the ten. The first four are about just worshiping God, and, basically, a jealous god. And he doesn't want you to have any other gods. The only two that are really laws are: don't steal and don't kill. Why is this the wisest group of ten that doesn't include child abuse; it doesn't include don't torture; it doesn't include a lot of things, rape, that, I think, if I were making a list today, we would probably include.
Mark Pryor : [Arkansas' Democratic Senator] Society is so different today. Our society is so radically different...
Bill Maher : And that's what I'm asking. We're in a different culture. Can you think of anything else that we still cleave to from the Bronze Age?
Mark Pryor : Well...
[speechless]
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Bill Maher : Do you believe in evolution?
Mark Pryor : I don't know. The scientific community is a little divided on the specifics of that. And I understand...
Bill Maher : I don't think they are.
Mark Pryor : No... no... well...
Bill Maher : I think they pretty much agree.
Mark Pryor : [grins] I don't know what happened...