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While this film has received rave reviews I have reserved criticism both positive and negative for it – positive in that it’s brilliantly written – the dialogue is believable, carries w/o a strong sense of fakeness, and is intelligently argued all throughout (on a fantastically minimal budget, for that matter). But that’s where things went sour for me; despite the intellectual survey of history, anthropology, biology, philosophy, and finally religion – there is a strong a priori undercurrent; that is to say – Bixby – the author – had an agenda – and a strong one at that. As a person of faith I can say I wasn’t offended so much by the sacrilege of the movie as much as its strong bias against Christianity – almost evangelistically so. When Christians are portrayed as dull, or closed-minded, or fundamentalistic, I can already tell the trajectory of the movie; It aims to insult. Fair enough, we have given our fair share from our own kin; but if the movie is attempting an intellectual survey at least it can be a little more respectful and objective towards its sources rather than submitting to quaint New-Age caricatures of re-hashed Jesus Seminar.

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