Premise i spent 14 years as an atheist (respectful of others believes mind you) and recently i went back to Catholicism, this just to let you understand that i have been to both sides.
I was expecting good satire moved by some actual knowledge of the subject but i ended up listening to the same old misinformed myths about priests and the church. I have no issues joking about religion even in a heavy\grotesque way but it has to be intellectually honest and refrain from lying simply to satisfy the urges of the author especially if the work is presented as highbrow satire (yep that's how some people talked about it in Italy at the time) sadly what we have here is two guys one of which doesn't question anything and takes literally everything and the other which ask literally everything but stops at anything, an attitude already totally out of touch with the actual attitude of a priest especially a jesuit. Furthermore the more you listen to the veteran priest the more you have a feeling that this was made only to ridicule and offend, it's dry, tired, ignorant, intolerant and paradoxical and only that, mind you. There's no good side, there's no different opinion, it's a one way road to stupidity, something i never agreed with even when i was an atheist myself, in the end it felt like the author kept nagging me to believe what he portrayed and to take everything as granted truth.
This feels more like propaganda than satire which ironically is how he describes religion.
I was expecting good satire moved by some actual knowledge of the subject but i ended up listening to the same old misinformed myths about priests and the church. I have no issues joking about religion even in a heavy\grotesque way but it has to be intellectually honest and refrain from lying simply to satisfy the urges of the author especially if the work is presented as highbrow satire (yep that's how some people talked about it in Italy at the time) sadly what we have here is two guys one of which doesn't question anything and takes literally everything and the other which ask literally everything but stops at anything, an attitude already totally out of touch with the actual attitude of a priest especially a jesuit. Furthermore the more you listen to the veteran priest the more you have a feeling that this was made only to ridicule and offend, it's dry, tired, ignorant, intolerant and paradoxical and only that, mind you. There's no good side, there's no different opinion, it's a one way road to stupidity, something i never agreed with even when i was an atheist myself, in the end it felt like the author kept nagging me to believe what he portrayed and to take everything as granted truth.
This feels more like propaganda than satire which ironically is how he describes religion.
