There’s a lot of good here. If you want a good, concise extrapolation of the beginning of your critical studies of the bible, this is where to start. You get, through this documentary, the rudimentary sets of circumstances that prove at very least that the Jesus story is fabricated and/or changed. If you study mythology, as this movie intimates, the specificities of Jesus’ life are impossible to corroborate, and this documentary points that out very well. The visual representation, as well as the style, is obviously slanted, but, given that the slant of generalization doesn’t show the extreme fringe of Christianity but rather the response of the common Joe on the street (which I can attest to from personal experience), the slant is more justified.

To be honest, for me, I knew most of this stuff. When I researched my second book, I dug all of this up myself and put it into a nice little book. Or at least, I think it’s nice. After this beginning study of Christianity, it is advisable to move on to comparative histories, the works of all religions, and the way that all, in very fundamental ways, deceive and prove
hypocritical.

The ambush of the Principal of the Christian school is woefully familiar, having had the same experience. I was almost kicked out of a Catholic school for questioning religious belief, and when I spoke to the principal about it, I had much the same scene. Thankfully, they didn’t have a rule like the one in this movie, or I would have been out and embroiled in legality.

Also, with David Byrne involved in the sound, you can’t go wrong.

The presentation is a bit too brief, and there are a lot of things that he could have done to engender some love for the protagonist. Like, say, appearing on camera. He appears once, to deny his faith, and he describes why he makes this film in brief, but there’s nothing like a personal story to enhance it.

There’s also no conclusion, really. Yeah, he shows why it’s bad to believe in Christianity, but where does he lay out what to do about it? How to fight Christian legislation, how to use critical inquiry to analyze all of the questions he raised? Still, not bad.

Definitely worth a rent, if you can find a store that will carry the work of a heathen atheist. I enjoyed it very much. I wouldn’t buy it, mostly because it’s stuff I already know, but if you don’t know any of it, it might well change your life and you might buy it.

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