"Oh My God" documentary reviewed

[Gilmar]

Greta Christina reviews it here:
http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2009/11/oh-my-god.html

"Well -- it's pretty."

[Achán hiNidráne]

What did you expect? Despite the claims of the Christian Reich, Hollywood doesn't like atheists any more than the Republican Party does. (When was the last positive portrayal of an atheist you saw on TV or in a movie?) The only difference is that the New Agey celebrities who are the movers and shakers in Tinseltown tend to prefer the "cosmic muffin" notion of God over the hick conservative's "hairy thunderer."

Of course, in the end, both notions are utter bullcrap.

[Darth Rotor]

(When was the last positive portrayal of an atheist you saw on TV or in a movie?)
Off the top of my head, because I don't look for such things, Jeff Goldblum's genius scientist in Independence Day.

DR

[Marduk]

Off the top of my head, because I don't look for such things, Jeff Goldblum's genius scientist in Independence Day.

DR

wasn't he Jewish ?

:D

How about any time someone depicts Einstein