Atheists: The NEW go-to movie villian

[theVOID]

I want to watch that Just saw the trailer.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Why can't people get that not all founding fathers were christian! I'm a Canadian and I know more of American history than lots of americans!

Indeed. They also seem blissfully unaware of The Treaty of Tripoli, ratified by the US Senate and signed into law by president John Adams, in 1797

Article 11 reads:
Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen,—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_T...Article_11

[IceSage]

I got worried for a minute when I read this topic...

...Then I read the news article and realized it's "direct to DVD."

We're safe. Nobody watches that crap. The only people who are going to watch it are the fundie Christians who already think this kind of crap happens every day.

[Zen Badger]

Watch "hogfather" that'll cheer you all up.[/b]

[TheDarkestOfAngels]

I got worried for a minute when I read this topic...

...Then I read the news article and realized it's "direct to DVD."

We're safe. Nobody watches that crap. The only people who are going to watch it are the fundie Christians who already think this kind of crap happens every day.

Well, you know, "direct to DVD" doesn't always mean the same thing as "going to die unwatched and alone in the basements of the really dedicated fans" anymore. Particularly when something like this is going to raise enough eyebrows to become instantly famous. It's already on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l4n2dPT5...=recentlik
(I completely agree with Cenk's assessement, though I doubt I'll spend money to see it. ... if it were free... I might consider it.)
And where I initially found it was my regular routine through my usual news outlet.
Honestly, you could have said the same thing for Ben Stein's "No Intelligence Allowed" and it would have been true (despite appearing in theaters), but it didn't pass by like a fart in the wind, but it did linger as bad odor it was and it was very much in the public eye.

Luckily, most people were smarter than that movie but I can't say that its existance those who do actual evolutionary science.

... I suppose though I should characterize my own opinion on this - I could honestly care less about the movie itself. If anything, I suppose I'm hoping that this movie causes actual atheists make themselves visible while this movies splashes around to dispel the inevitable ignorance about atheism that this movie is going to promote upon release, particularly for atheists who live in areas where this ignorance runs rampant.
I think this is less worse than Bill O'Reily's jihad against people going agaisnt the christian tradition (this movie is basically a movie of that, I think), but I suppose what really does concern me is the damage this could do considering that we're already a persecuted minority in this country in many areas.