Divorcing God film will pick up where Religulous falls short
M Sargent
I posted on this site about a year ago looking for people to share their stories about leaving their marriages at or around the same time they began questioning their faith. Now, 25 interviews, 7 states and 1-year later, the film has been shot and we are in post-production now -- working on cutting 60 hours down to 90 minutes or less. It has been quite an adventure.
The film is called Divorcing God, and the official movie site is www.divorcinggod.org. The film will be complete in December.
We ended up finding Danny on this site, an ex-minister turned atheist, who is one of the main characters in the film. We also interviewed Dan Barker, the president of Freedom From Religion; Tony Campolo, a "liberal" Christian author and president of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education (not to mention a really cool dude), James Tabor, chair of religious studies at UNCC and author of The Jesus Dynasty, and Frank Page, the former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, among many others.
I'm writing to ask you to visit the web site (www.divorcinggod.org), view the trailer, and if it applies, submit your story about leaving the faith as it relates to your marriage. The site recently launched and not a lot of people know about it. I'm hoping to create a buzz and get a good mailing list of people interested in viewing the film before it comes out.
For those of you that saw Bill Maher's Religulous, he is trying to rally the 16% agnostic and atheists that believe religion is poisonous to society as a whole. I commend his efforts, but this is not the group that needs talking to. They already know what they believe, and his approach is certainly not going to change the minds of those that don't.
I'm writing to ask you to visit the web site www.divorcinggod.org.Therefore, the audience I'm hoping to reach with Divorcing God is slightly different -- it's middle America that is on the fence with religion. It's the spiritual seekers that don't buy Christianity all the way. It's the moderate and liberal Christians that many of us are friends with that believe the same as we do but still insist the Bible is the absolute word of God. If we can reach these people, asking them nothing more than to question why they believe what they do, then perhaps we can help facilitate the discussion it will take over time, and with much love, to grow Bill's 16 percent and ultimately create the change this nation so desperately needs.
Thank you for your support.
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I posted on this site about a year ago looking for people to share their stories about leaving their marriages at or around the same time they began questioning their faith. Now, 25 interviews, 7 states and 1-year later, the film has been shot and we are in post-production now -- working on cutting 60 hours down to 90 minutes or less. It has been quite an adventure.
The film is called Divorcing God, and the official movie site is www.divorcinggod.org. The film will be complete in December.
We ended up finding Danny on this site, an ex-minister turned atheist, who is one of the main characters in the film. We also interviewed Dan Barker, the president of Freedom From Religion; Tony Campolo, a "liberal" Christian author and president of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education (not to mention a really cool dude), James Tabor, chair of religious studies at UNCC and author of The Jesus Dynasty, and Frank Page, the former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, among many others.
I'm writing to ask you to visit the web site (www.divorcinggod.org), view the trailer, and if it applies, submit your story about leaving the faith as it relates to your marriage. The site recently launched and not a lot of people know about it. I'm hoping to create a buzz and get a good mailing list of people interested in viewing the film before it comes out.
For those of you that saw Bill Maher's Religulous, he is trying to rally the 16% agnostic and atheists that believe religion is poisonous to society as a whole. I commend his efforts, but this is not the group that needs talking to. They already know what they believe, and his approach is certainly not going to change the minds of those that don't.
I'm writing to ask you to visit the web site www.divorcinggod.org.Therefore, the audience I'm hoping to reach with Divorcing God is slightly different -- it's middle America that is on the fence with religion. It's the spiritual seekers that don't buy Christianity all the way. It's the moderate and liberal Christians that many of us are friends with that believe the same as we do but still insist the Bible is the absolute word of God. If we can reach these people, asking them nothing more than to question why they believe what they do, then perhaps we can help facilitate the discussion it will take over time, and with much love, to grow Bill's 16 percent and ultimately create the change this nation so desperately needs.
Thank you for your support.
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