After reading some of the comments on here, some may be surprised that I am a lifelong Christian and I found this movie quite hilarious. It's well-done and from a point-of-view that many people hold. It's relatable, even personally at times, and keeps the viewer entertained.
On the other hand, there are a lot of things that are either misconstrued or completely wrong within the movie. Flemming completely misconstrues some of Jesus teachings when he includes the scripture Luke 19:27, "But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them-bring them here and kill them in front of me." Flemming was insisting that this was the philosophy of Christ because the words are written in red in certain editions of the Bible, but what he forgets to include is that these words are part of a parable, a story Jesus is telling in order to teach a lesson and these words are spoken by a fictitious character.
Flemming also spends a good amount of time talking about how the story of Christ is unreliable because nothing was WRITTEN about it until approximately seventy years after the life of Christ. The thing here is, in period in which Jesus lived did not see many people who could write. Most people were not literate. Histories were passed down orally rather than through the written word. Also, seventy years, in the grand scheme of things, is not very long. If we are going by what Flemming claims in the film, none of us can speak about either World War or Pearl Harbor or the Civil War and be believed because that was around or over seventy years ago, so the information we might give is unreliable because that is too long a time for the information to be accurate. The accounts of the veterans who are still alive cannot be believed, if we are basing the validity of information on Flemming's claims. Another thing is that there are no known accounts during that time refuting anything written in the Bible, from a purely historical aspect. As far as we know, no one during that time denounced the events as hogwash and inaccurate. Simply something to consider.
On the other hand, there are a lot of things that are either misconstrued or completely wrong within the movie. Flemming completely misconstrues some of Jesus teachings when he includes the scripture Luke 19:27, "But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them-bring them here and kill them in front of me." Flemming was insisting that this was the philosophy of Christ because the words are written in red in certain editions of the Bible, but what he forgets to include is that these words are part of a parable, a story Jesus is telling in order to teach a lesson and these words are spoken by a fictitious character.
Flemming also spends a good amount of time talking about how the story of Christ is unreliable because nothing was WRITTEN about it until approximately seventy years after the life of Christ. The thing here is, in period in which Jesus lived did not see many people who could write. Most people were not literate. Histories were passed down orally rather than through the written word. Also, seventy years, in the grand scheme of things, is not very long. If we are going by what Flemming claims in the film, none of us can speak about either World War or Pearl Harbor or the Civil War and be believed because that was around or over seventy years ago, so the information we might give is unreliable because that is too long a time for the information to be accurate. The accounts of the veterans who are still alive cannot be believed, if we are basing the validity of information on Flemming's claims. Another thing is that there are no known accounts during that time refuting anything written in the Bible, from a purely historical aspect. As far as we know, no one during that time denounced the events as hogwash and inaccurate. Simply something to consider.