Universal has hired a religious marketing firm to sell Evan Almighty to churches and religious leaders, hoping to capture the same hundreds of millions in Christ dollars raked in by The Passion, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Bruce Almighty. If they succeed, it will be tragic, not because Evan Almighty is unfunny (although it certainly is), but because it will validate Hollywood’s embarrassingly stupid approach to religion and faith.
Meanwhile, the film’s director, Tom Shadyac, is busy pimping his Jesus bona fides:
"There’s no bigger Jesus freak in this room than me, ’cause when I was as young as I can remember, having cognition and thought, I was looking at this Jesus guy and going, ‘Whoever this is, this is somebody that’s blowing my mind.’ "
Dude!
