{"id":4696,"date":"2014-04-02T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T04:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/?p=4696"},"modified":"2014-04-14T15:50:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T19:50:49","slug":"gods-not-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/gods-not-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"God is Dead?: A Review of \u2018God\u2019s Not Dead\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nGod\u2019s Not Dead<\/a> (2014)
\n<\/b><\/span><\/b>Directed by Harold Cronk
\nWritten by Chuck Konzelman and Gary Solomon
\n113 min.<\/p>\n

Mild spoilers, but who cares.<\/i><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a scene in God\u2019s Not Dead<\/a> where a woman who has been diagnosed with cancer sits down with her boyfriend for a fancy dinner at a nice restaurant.\u00a0 The boyfriend smiles excitedly and says \u201cI just made partner.\u201d\u00a0 She responds with \u201cI have cancer.\u201d\u00a0 He replies, \u201cCan\u2019t this wait?\u201d and then proceeds to break up with her for having cancer.<\/p>\n

This is what Christians think atheists are like.<\/p>\n

Also, apparently, just about everyone is an atheist.
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\nGod\u2019s Not Dead made me think a lot about what it is to believe in something.\u00a0 Not in the way the movie wanted me to, but in a sort of wanting-to-understand-what-these-people\u2019s-deal-is way. \u00a0The theater was packed, almost sold out, and the crowd literally cheered as if the Death Star was exploding at about six key points in the third act.\u00a0 It was fun to witness, and like nothing I\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n

In case you haven\u2019t heard of it, God\u2019s Not Dead is another movie in a litany that seems to have began with Kirk Cameron\u2019s Fireproof<\/a>, a small, independent Christian movie that made a ton of money and opened up the door for more Christian productions in the mainstream.\u00a0 For those of you who haven\u2019t seen it, here\u2019s an easily digestible version I made of it a while back:<\/p>\n