LINK: Nice little write-up in the Weekly Standard on that movie that makes fun of evangelical Christians. I do appreciate being portrayed as ignorant, prejudiced, and stupid as much as the next person...
As it so happens, I read The Gods Will Have Blood by Anatole France this past weekend, and for as much as it lampoons the clergy and distrusts the bases for Christianity, it does a pretty good job of portraying the shortcomings of anti-religious attitudes (the atheist character, in the end, is worried about the possibility that he's right, but even more worried that he might be wrong, which seems a pretty fair way to put it). That sort of evenhandedness, however, is very out of fashion these days, because you know us evangelicals--we'd put the ten commandments in every room of every building in America and laugh heartily at all the women who can't get abortions and gay couples that can't get married.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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