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Brian Flemming (writer)
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6 June 2005 (USA)
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A Film Beyond Belief more
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Did Jesus exist? This film starts with that question, then goes on to examine Christianity as a whole. full summary | add synopsis
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Christianity
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Christian
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Christ Myth
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Atheism
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Purposely Provocative
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Richard Dawkins | ... | Himself |
| Sam Harris | ... | Himself |
| Robert M. Price | ... | Himself |
 | Richard Carrier | ... | Himself |
| Earl Doherty | ... | Himself |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Scott Butcher | ... | Himself |
| Alan Dundes | ... | Himself |
 | Jerry Falwell | ... | Himself |
 | Brian Flemming | ... | Narrator |
| Barbara Mikkelson | ... | Herself |
| David Mikkelson | ... | Himself |
| James Robison | ... | Himself |
| Ronald G. Sipus | ... | Himself |
| Reverend Bailey Smith | ... | Himself |
| Dean Wycoff | ... | Himself |
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Australia:MA (2007)
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The Superboy story that Robert Price refers to (where he goes into to the future to discover he is considered only a folktale in the future) appeared in Adventure Comics #279 . It does not refer to the Earth-23/Pocket Universe Superboy story of a similar theme.
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Narrator: The Earth revolves around the Sun. But it wasn't always that way. The Sun used to revolve around the Earth. It was like that for hundreds of years, until it was discovered to be otherwise, and even for a few hundred years after that. But, ultimately, after much kicking and screaming, the Earth did, in fact, begin to revolve around the Sun. Christianity was wrong about the solar system. What if it's wrong about something else, too? This movie's about what happened when I went looking for Jesus.
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Narrator: The Earth revolves around the Sun. But it wasn't always that way. The Sun used to revolve around the Earth. It was like that for hundreds of years, until it was discovered to be otherwise, and even for a few hundred years after that. But, ultimately, after much kicking and screaming, the Earth did, in fact, begin to revolve around the Sun. Christianity was wrong about the solar system. What if it's wrong about something else, too? This movie's about what happened when I went looking for Jesus.
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Features The Passion of the Christ (2004)
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A Cosmic Error
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I was fortunate to catch the standing-room-only world premiere in San Francisco. The audience was riveted throughout, and emotions ranged from laughter to shock to anger to fright. The film's editing, while slightly clumsy, weaves in and out of the theme of stripping Christian beliefs bare and exposing the shallow limits of what they believe or even want to think about.
Extended gruesome scenes from Mel Gibson's "The Passion Of The Christ" were hard to watch, but necessary to glimpse at what was in the movie that was so popular with Christains.
I think a "believer" would start questioning his or her faith after seeing "The God Who Wasn't There." Hopefully this movie won't just be "preaching to the choir" of the freethinking crowd that is its natural audience.
The hip electronica/techno/new age soundtrack, mixed with bits of religious chanting and gospel grooves, is as provocative as the film. The first instinct is to get up and dance, but a close listen to the lyrics and voice-overs force the brain to work harder than the body.