‘Religulous’

Because a metaphorical bomb-thrower is always preferable to an actual one, Bill Maher comes out smelling like a rose in “Religulous,” his gleeful nondenominational attack on religion and its side effects. Brought up Catholic in an interfaith family (his mother is Jewish), Maher, whose childhood was spent in fear of the Almighty, was delighted when his family finally decided to chuck church. But the country and other parts of the world have gone in another direction in recent decades, and Maher sets out to investigate why so many people are buying into “an invisible product” and offers up his own philosophy of doubt in its stead.