Religulous (2008)

Mark Pryor: Self

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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] 

• 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] 

• 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] 

• 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...