The movie is either calculatedly or lazily dishonest. It seeks to discredit atheism by completely misrepresenting what atheism IS.
The Sorbo character is initially depicted a horrendous caricature of what Christians who've never met an atheist imagine them to be like - bitter, humourless, angry, smug and bullying. He behaves in ways that would have him removed from his teaching job in the real world, but in the movie's imaginary world - one in which plucky Christians are mercilessly persecuted by a vast atheist establishment - goes unpunished.
And when finally he's cornered by our plucky Christian hero ("Why do you hate God?" "BECAUSE HE TOOK EVERYTHING FROM ME!!!") it turns out he's NOT EVEN REALLY AN ATHEIST. He's an embittered THEIST whose faith has been damaged by tragedy.
Now think about this; would you ask your Jewish friends to see a movie in which Jews are depicted as baby-sacrificing conspiratorial extortionists, and in which the Big Reveal at the end is that Jews really KNOW Jesus was the Messiah but just pretend otherwise for nefarious purposes?
The Sorbo character is initially depicted a horrendous caricature of what Christians who've never met an atheist imagine them to be like - bitter, humourless, angry, smug and bullying. He behaves in ways that would have him removed from his teaching job in the real world, but in the movie's imaginary world - one in which plucky Christians are mercilessly persecuted by a vast atheist establishment - goes unpunished.
And when finally he's cornered by our plucky Christian hero ("Why do you hate God?" "BECAUSE HE TOOK EVERYTHING FROM ME!!!") it turns out he's NOT EVEN REALLY AN ATHEIST. He's an embittered THEIST whose faith has been damaged by tragedy.
Now think about this; would you ask your Jewish friends to see a movie in which Jews are depicted as baby-sacrificing conspiratorial extortionists, and in which the Big Reveal at the end is that Jews really KNOW Jesus was the Messiah but just pretend otherwise for nefarious purposes?
