Holy Hollywood!

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The Thinking Atheist

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🗓️ 15 April 2014

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Hollywood isn't generally known for popping out religious films, but in recent months (and periodically throughout the decades), they've become big box office and big business.

In this lighthearted show, we look at religious films from the past century, from Cecil B. Demile fare to the recent "Son of God" and various non-Hollywood movies that have "blessed" theater screens with tales of divinity, tragedy and (almost inevitably) large amounts of cheese.

If you've seen "The Ten Commandments," "The Passion of the Christ," or the recent (and some would say sacreligious) Aronofsky interpreation of the "Noah" story, bring your reviews and join us for an entertaining podcast.

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go, the step-by-three, two, one, action!
0:06.6	Assume nothing.
0:08.4	Brash, bald, fake, black, blue.
0:10.6	Question, everything.
0:12.4	I find it extremely hard to imagine.
0:14.2	Open your eyes.
0:16.6	It is quite all right to be an atheist.
0:18.8	The fastest growing group of people in the country
0:21.2	has been measured as being those who have no belief
0:23.6	or who are atheists.
0:25.0	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:27.4	Challenge the opposition.
0:29.0	You see religion on a hundred fronts losing the argument.
0:33.0	And start thinking.
0:38.0	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:44.6	You'll have to forgive me.
0:45.6	I'm a little loopy today.
0:48.2	Got in about three in the morning
0:50.2	from a weekend in San Diego.
0:53.0	And had an amazing time.
0:54.2	Thank you so much to everybody who came out
0:56.6	to the San Diego event on Saturday.
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