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Faye Dunaway as Dr. Roberta Waters


Anyone know what role this woman played in Lee Strobel's life? Is she a medical doctor or Doctor of Theology?

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I can't believe she has stooped so low as to be doing a christian movie.

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Maybe she's a Christian? Or maybe she's wants a new kitchen? Or maybe she's just trolling jewish people (one in particular obvs) for the lols? Or maybe she was drunk and didn't read the script? Or maybe she was body snatched by evangelical pod people? All seem equally plausible. If only "award winning" author, Lee Strobel, would write a book on the quandary to help us find our way to the truth! I guess we'll never know.


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Strobel was an atheist by accident. He enjoyed (as he states in the book the film takes its title from) an immoral lifestyle and therefore equates immorality with atheism because that's how he lived. The problem is: he sees all atheists as immoral. Not all atheists are like he was. He chose to be "immoral" and he chooses to link atheism as being immoral but that doesn't make atheism immoral. His search for disproving Jesus, as an atheist, was flawed. It was one-sided. There was no method to it but a religious one. In a law metaphor: he conducted a prosecution without providing a defense.

None of that matters for films like this because it isn't really showing how atheism is it's showing how one atheist was, from that person's point-of-view, and by a propagandizing view by Christianity itself.

It won't be at all accurate to anything. Which is sad.

-Nam

I am on the road less traveled...

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These are anti-atheist movies. Christian movies are centered around the books in the Bible, Jesus etc., "The Passion of Christ" was a Christian movie. This film and those like it have nothing to do with Christianity and everything to do with showing how evil atheists are and sometimes throws in anti-Muslim rhetoric etc.,

Calling this a Christian film insults Christians, in my opinion. I'm an atheist, by the by.

-Nam

I am on the road less traveled...

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This film is a Christian propaganda film, and like all propaganda films it is both disrespectful and wrong.

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Every film has a message of some kind; religious ones just tend to be more direct.

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It actually is not so strange as Faye Dunaway converted to Roman Catholicism in 1994, and is a daily Mass goer.

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Bigot.

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i tried looking her up, but couldn't find anything; she's not even listed in the book's index. I'm guessing the character is either created for the film, or based on a number of people Strobel knew.

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"the character is either created for the film"

Suggesting that there could be anything in this film that is anything other than completely factual is just crazy talk.

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Typical slander without even the slightest desire for other consideration. I believe that's the textbook definition of an Internet troll.

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Since you offered nothing by way of "other consideration" in your reply, my comment, though ironic, is perfectly valid.

More to the point, one of us voices an opinion hidden behind a pseudonym, and one of us uses their real name.

Still wanna play "Spot the Troll"?

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