josiahkwhite How can this awful movie possibly get a higher IMDb rating than Higher Ground? Higher Ground also came from a recovering fundamentalist, but treated her religious experiences with great insight and sensitivity. Compared to that movie, this one is embarrassing.I give it 4 stars because it was at least very thought-provoking. It's very interesting because it doesn't just debunk Christian theology. Instead, it actually goes so far as to come up with an "atheist theology" which is even easier to debunk.I mean, seriously: Jesus didn't exist because many parts of his life are also found in the lives of contemporary gods like Dionysus? Dionysus and countless others are also depicted as having had a virgin birth, a resurrection, etc. Therefore, Jesus was no more real that Dionysus and the others? Seriously? There's a perfectly reasonable alternative explanation. Imagine God saying the following to himself, before sending his son to earth: They already have a model or a prototype that they expect their little gods to follow, even though these gods are completely mythical. So I'll blow them away even more if I more-or-less follow that model, but make it all true: really heal the sick, really resurrect dead people, etc. But again and again, this director ignores the possibility of reasonable explanations, and never proves his assertions like, "Therefore, Jesus is no more real than any of these other mythical gods were." And why attack Mel Gibson's Passion movie for being so violent? Was his point that Christians should be criticized because they actually liked this portrayal of their Christ? Perhaps the world is simply, on occasion, a very violent place. It's like criticizing patriotic Americans because they like the violence of Saving Private Ryan. I didn't like the violence of WW2, but the reality of what our troops suffered on Omaha Beach made me respect their heroism more, not less.While I'm no fan of any kind of fundamentalism, this movie made it clear that atheist fundamentalism can be equally as obnoxious as the religious kind is. Many atheists are actually very nice people who believe religion is at best a crutch used to help and comfort those too weak to stand on their own. They would never go around kicking the crutches of people recovering from broken legs. But the obnoxious tone of this whole movie is nothing more than "kicking the crutch" out from under Christians who need their faith to get through life.See Higher Ground instead. That was so well done. This movie did nothing but ridicule, and instead ended up making itself ridiculous.

jzakany I'm a Christian. I'm also extremely open-minded and a logical thinker. Yea, I know we all consider ourselves to be this way, but I've had more than one close friend say that I'm the most level headed person they know. They say I am willing to see things from another person's viewpoint better than anyone they know. When presented with an argument that contradicts my opinion or my belief, I pride myself in being able to consider the other person's position...that is, as long as they are willing to discuss the matter in an intelligent, civil manner. Brian Williams cannot do this.I had been debating internally whether or not to watch the movie. Not because I was afraid my faith would be shaken, but because I didn't know if I wanted to spend 90 minutes of my life listening to something that might be someone else's ludicrous argument. For example, I had seen Bill Maher's "Religuous" and it was full of asinine statements. He interviewed people who were just ordinary folks or fringe believers, and he mocked them. He didn't have the guts to debate experts who have studied the religion. The priest of my local parish would have ripped Maher to shreds in a debate over religion.So, I took a chance and started the movie. Right off the bat Williams starts with poor logic then he insults me. The movie starts out saying the church once believed the Sun revolved around the Earth. Since they were wrong about that could they be wrong about other things? This is poor logic because nowhere in our dogma does it say that salvation required a follower to believe the Sun revolved around the Earth. Human's lack of understanding of the mechanics of the universe, and their insistence on adhering to a false understanding of those mechanics, doesn't prove or disprove the existence of God, either.Williams then immediately jumped into a series of short quips of Christians explaining who Jesus was (i.e. "the Son of God" or "the Messiah, the Saviour of the World"). Williams narration points out that these Christians are smiley, happy people, but not all Christians are like them. He then starts rolling a series of pictures of deranged people who have committed horrific acts in the name of God.Screw you, Williams. These people were not followers of God. They were insane. Your insinuation that Christians are evil, disturbed people or a belief in God drives people to commit atrocious acts is insulting to me. Because of the nature of humans there are good and bad people in EVERY aspect of life! If you want to debate the existence of Jesus, fine. If you want to do it by insulting me and my faith, then you're on your own.I turned off the movie after 3 minutes.

m_cruzado I was expecting this film to be decent and while the points it makes are clear, technically it leaves a lot to be desired. I thought it was only extreme religious people that didn't know how to use technology. The director throws facts and challenges Christianity, which is fair enough, but after a while he tries to makes us care about him by saying that he once was a hardcore Christian himself. Personally, I think he lacked charisma to carry the film from that angle. Please try harder with the titles the next time. Also, the music deserves a special mention, it doesn't come across as funny at all. It just sounds cheesy. The whole film felt amateurish. That's my two pence.

David Earth Amazing movie, though i do have to say i like Religulous a bit better, but over all i think both movies are amazing, all i can hope is it will open people eyes to the truth, that people still believe in make believe spirits and other such nonsense is truly sad and pathetic to say the least.Either way all i can hope is people like Brian Flemming will continue to shine the light on the complete ignorance and stupidity that is religion. How is it you grow up and no longer believe in the tooth fairy or Santa Clause because anyone with common sense realize there not real, but hey thats why its called a delusion.Hopefully some day people in general will get a clue and stop spouting all this retarded nonsense about some stupid make believe spirit, I wish to congratulate Brian Flemming for trying to educate the masses, please keep up the amazing work, if u can save but one person from the ignorance and stupidity of religion, then you truly made a difference.