Not sure what Flemming thinks he's accomplishing... I mean, he's wasting his time and money on planting this stuff in churches, and all the churches have to do is throw the stuff in the garbage. And intentionally using the number 666...
what is he, in junior high? (no offense to junior highschoolers)
Okay, I have to admit I was curious as to how the movie actually became a best seller, so I looked it up on Amazon and found these comments:
Imagine watching a home movie thrown together by an angry adolescent who was kicked out of a Christian high school for smoking pot and wants to get back at the principal by making a documentary trashing Christianity and, especially, Christians. That's about the level of discourse you will find in this movie.
As a hint to how bad this movie is, it begins by interviewing a number of Christians and marveling at how happy they all are. Then the narrator ominously states, "But not all Christians are happy." It then shows us pictures of four or five "unhappy Christians", the first of whom is . . . Charles Manson! At that point (about 1 minute into the film), the movie lost any credibility. And, in all honestly, it never gets much better.
Tom Wolfe said that an intellectual is someone with expertise in one area who speaks out in another, and this would certainly apply to atheist zoologist Richard Dawkins who is featured as an authority in this film about Jesus Christ.
This film takes aim squarely at the ordinary believing-but-ignorant Christian on the street. It makes no attempt to fight toe-to-toe with any heavyweight academic theologians.
Brian packs this short film with a ton of info. I loved it. As a long self proclaimed athiest myself, it was great to have so much more information to solidify my beliefs.
However, therein lies the problem. Brian, the filmmaker, doesn't leave the conclusion to the audience to decide. He drills his opinion into the audiences' head, much like the Christians did to him. Sad. He is clearly pretty angry for what was done to him (with good cause - don't get me wrong) but he was more interested in lashing out than having a sincere debate with the experts in their field.
(obviously this one is from an atheist =-)
Of course most of the reviews praise the film to no end, but most of them seem to be what Jesus referred to as rocky soil... or in other words, the choir that Flemming was preaching to.
Anyway, I think of Flemming as a little man who is easily ignored. As for the people who are somehow taken in by his teaching, I pray God will help them find their way to someone who can show them real love and truth.
