I agree with you there. The whole idea of a 'documentary' that is infact just backing you up in your own prejudices is really quite perverse, and probably destructive. One group has their biased prejudiced documentary proving them right, another group has theirs, it just causes polerisation, and causes people to hate or be suspicious of each other. Or at the very least ridicule each other rather than trying to find out what's going on in the world.

Like, for example, I myself am religious, to some degree. And every once in a while I've got into a discussion online with an American atheist, on Reddit perhaps. I try to avoid these discussions in general, because they so often go the same way. I don't want to sound big-headed, but I think I'm quite well informed on the idea of religion, I'm well educated, I've given my religion a lot of thought, I've been to one of the best universities for theology and philosophy in the world, and had the chance to talk things over in depth with really brilliant people, priests, even a couple of bishops, I'm reasonable, I'm logical, I've given it a lot of thought, I'm sure I've heard or read a couple of thought provoking arguments someone else might not have heard; my point is, I think that if you really wanted to have a discussion about religion and faith, that I'd have a lot to say, a lot to contribute.

But, nearly every time it comes up online, the discussion goes-

"OH, so you're religious?"

"Yeah, I am actually"

"Well you're a fucking idiot then"

You know what I mean? They already know I am an idiot, because they have been to /r/atheism, and seen the Bill Maher documentary.

It's not that it offends me, it really doesn't. It's just that... well what good does it do anybody?

Thankfully it doesn't happen in real life much, usually just the internet, but I think that's down to the American presence; it seems to be a young American issue, because they see a lot of fundamentalism and things we don't get over here, perhaps. But with these films and things, it is slowly seeping over here. It's sad, It's can't do any good for people.