Religulous Page #11

Thursday isn't...

isn't gay night here.

I hope you guys find

each other attractive,

'cause otherwise...

you don't feel afraid?

Here in Holland I'm not,

but when I came from my country,

I was very afraid.

There was an article of law:

Punish the gay

for one year just because he's gay.

- Just being gay can get you a year.

- Just being gay.

Same as Alabama.

What I learned is that

they're not really...

they're not specific

against homosexuality.

They're not specific against,

in other words,

the desire

of a man for a man.

What they are against

is specific behavior,

like anal sex.

They don't say homosexuality,

heterosexuality.

They just don't want you doing it

in the naughty place,

which I guess,

if you put that out

of the picture in homosexuality,

what do you have left?

Just the blowj*b.

What do you think

when people say

it affects your memory,

especially your

short-term memory?

- It does.

- And what do you think when people say

that it affects your memory,

your short-term memory?

It does.

- I like my hat.

- It's good. You look good, too.

I think I do.

I think I might adopt this look.

Yes.

Is there a reason

why you have a black hat

and I have a white hat?

We have any color you like.

So I bought this.

I like it myself

because I like the color.

There is a lot of tension

in the last five years or so.

Is Islam a threat

to Dutch values?

Islam is preaching,

above all, peace.

Peace, peace and peace.

The name Islam means peace.

And yet it is involved

in a lot of war and violence.

Yeah, it's just all politics.

- Nothing to do with religion?

- No no.

- No?

- No, sir.

- It's political.

- It's politics.

Seems to be

a lot of passages

that say the infidel

is not the equal

of the believer.

The infidel will die in hell.

Don't feel bad

about hating the infidel.

- No.

- No?

Boy, I've got

bad information.

Yes, you have.

I think so.

- No no no no no.

- No no no no.

- No no no no.

- No.

No? No. I'm wrong

about everything.

The way I perceive things in the Koran

is not about killing infidels.

- But you have read it in there?

- Of course I've read the Koran.

You've read those passages, and what

did you think when you read them?

No, but I explain those

passages within the time

in which they emerged

in the world.

That's not how people

read holy books.

People don't read

holy books and go,

"Well, that was good for then."

People who read holy books and go,

"This is the word of God.

It's forever!"

- No, I don't agree.

- That's how most people do it.

I just don't buy it

that these guys are

in this state of denial.

I think they're just

in a state of denial

to an outsider.

They will not admit

anything is wrong

with their culture

to an outsider.

Muslims were imperialists

in the century

after Mohammed's death.

They conquered most

of the known world

in one century.

Yeah, it is possible.

You call it conquer.

I think they were trying

to spread Islam.

Well, they were, but they weren't doing

it by singing "Kumbaya."

Excuse me.

Sorry.

Oh, that 21st century's

always busting in.

I'm going to shut it off.

I love it that he's got "Kashmir"

as his ringtone.

Okay, I shut it off.

- Sorry, I was...

- Yeah...

Politics, okay.

Do you think it's possible

that when we're on something

like marijuana

or mushrooms

and believe we're having a very

spiritual experience,

that we're just high?

- It's... it's...

- Oh, look out your head's on fire!

Boy, talk about

the light bulb going off,

- that was your whole head.

- I don't like candles behind me.

No. Oh, look,

I found another joint.

Uh-oh.

Can we get closer?

That is one hell of a wall.

This is the Dome of the Rock?

This is the Dome of the Rock.

According to Islam...

On a horse?

He went to heaven on the horse?

Why is it holy for the Jews?

A rock. The Kaaba?

Isn't that...

Stone, rock, the same thing.

Why is that holy?

Paradise.

Could the rock itself have been

what we know now to be like a meteor?

But does it make a difference

that we now understand

what a meteor is?

Yes, right.

Okay.

This is the Mount

of Olives.

A lot of Orthodox Jews want

to be buried here,

'cause they believe that

when the Messiah comes,

he will raise them from

the dead and march them through

that golden gate

and onto the Temple Mount,

which is why the Muslims

have walled up the gate.

The better to keep out

the Jewish Messiah

and his kosher zombies

from getting in.

Although you'd think that

if you had the power to raise the dead,

you'd have the power

to jump a fence.

I thought I would not be allowed

to walk in a mosque.

I thought only someone of your faith

was allowed to do that.

Why is he angry?

They're angry that

you're talking to me?

Women in your culture

seem not to be as equal

to the man as they

are in our culture.

Yes.

I talked to a Muslim scholar today.

And he said that Mohammed

had a meeting here.

Mohammed never set his foot

on that Temple Mount,

not even one foot.

Never ever.

He was never in the land

of Israel, that's a historical fact.

I think even

I understand that.

Why can't the people

of the different faiths get along?

All three religions

consider the same site

to be holy.

Is it not because it was

conquered many times?

- Yes.

- It was conquered first by King David,

and then later by

the armies coming out

of the Arabian Desert.

- It changed hands during the crusades.

- We had the Romans.

We had the Byzantines.

We had the Persians.

There's more than

one mosque in the world

that used to be a church,

and before that was a temple.

Because it's a lot easier

just to change the sign on the top

and say

"under new management"

than it is to change

the whole building.

I worked a lot

of comedy clubs in the '80s

that still had

the disco ball on the ceiling.

And in the '90s,

they became strip clubs

and now

they're a Starbucks.

I've come today to the village

of Cerne Abbas in Southern England

to show you something

completely different.

It's in the shape

of a giant naked man

with a sizable erection...

well, sizable for England.

Some people think

that this means

that there is a giant actually

buried under that hill.

Others think it has something

to do with crop circles

or ancient space visitors

or Druids,

but nobody really knows.

And that's what

I find fascinating about this,

is that it doesn't

really mean anything.

The locals have been

maintaining it for centuries,

and they don't

really know why.

They just do it because

they've always done it,

and isn't that

religion for you?

Sometimes you kneel,

sometimes you fast

and sometimes

you go up on the hill

and you cut the grass

around the giant space penis.

Do you believe,

as so many Christians do nowadays,

that the world will end?

I think we are in the end times.

There are many many signs.

The world as we know it

will come to an end.

And beyond that,

there will be the glorious

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