SHROUD OF TURIN DEBUNKED 2016 MOVIE

Reporters make mistakes, but botching that story doesn’t “prove” the false conclusion of another. That’s one of the ways he convinces himself that he’s been looking at this Christianity thing all wrong, that “mind already made up” thing.īut that’s not logical. That’s a favorite trope of the “angry” corner of faith-based cinema, the “angry” committed atheist.īut what’s any of that got to do with rounding up the provable and separating it from the un-provable or provably false?Ī parallel story follows Strobel’s blundering into a crime story where he reached his conclusion before thoroughly finishing the reporting. And the “arrogant” reporter, given to drinking and flying off the handle about sharing his wife with Jesus, is about to wreck his marriage over this as well. He’s semi-estranged from his dad ( Robert Forster). Do you have Daddy issues, she wants to know? Because all the great skeptics (as defined by the movie’s Christian apologists) did! Attack the fellow asking the hard questions, why don’t you? Waters doesn’t leave it there (or consider, for instance, the “mass psychosis” of thousands who testify that they’ve been abducted and probed by aliens). “Mass psychosis” among these witnesses is dismissed by a famous psychologist (Oscar winner Faye Dunaway).Īnd Dr. The “Swoon Theory” (Jesus wasn’t dead, he fainted and woke up) takes a whipping, courtesy of a doctor/scientist ( Tom Nowicki of “The Blind Side”).

SHROUD OF TURIN DEBUNKED 2016 MOVIE

The movie Strobel explores assorted skeptic hypotheses, the favorite “skeptic arguments” cited by Christian apologists. And while the movie has Strobel blurt out “Just because I write something and bury it in dirt doesn’t make it true,” and pays lip service to whether they’re “reliable” eyewitness accounts (all women) or not, that’s a weaselly way of avoiding the hard questions. “Experts” throw figures like “there were 500 different witnesses” to the dead Jesus returning to life, according to “ancient texts.” Unlike Homer’s “The Iliad,” (a spurious comparison), there are thousands of those texts, all hearsay dating from some time after the events described. Debunk the Resurrection, “and the whole thing falls like a house of cards,” he is told. He lets the believer on staff define the parameters of the story. “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.”Īnd then he makes his first misstep. And taking guidance from a fellow skeptic on the newspaper staff ( Brett Rice) and an editor/believer ( Mike Pniewski), decides to follow the edict taped to the newsroom wall. Lee cannot accept her rejection of their shared atheism. She doesn’t believe in coincidences, or in the odds that a crowded restaurant in any big city would have one person who knows the Heimlich maneuver. Strobel (one-and-only “Swimfan” Erika Christiansen) believes her. A nurse, dining at the restaurant, intervenes.īut don’t credit Nurse Alfie Davis ( L. He even got a book out of it.Īt a celebratory dinner, his daughter ( Haley Rosenwasser) almost chokes to death. In the film, Strobel ( Mike Vogel of “The Help” and TV’s “Under the Dome”) is a rising star at the 1980s Chicago Tribune, top dog on the paper’s reporting on Ford’s exploding gas-tank econo-box, the Pinto. The “case” he makes is all rhetorical tricks aimed at the gullible, and seriously unconvincing. If it “really happened,” well…īut the film, based on Strobel’s book, is so emotionally flat and slow that it forces you to pick up on its ridiculous circular logic and pick apart the half-hearted “reporting” and questioning its hero undertakes. An accomplished, skeptical journalist investigates the “case” for Jesus dying on the cross and rising from the dead as a means of turning his just-found-Jesus wife away from religion. Dry, unemotional and - considering the subject matter - uninspiring, Lee Strobel’s “The Case for Christ” is a faith-based drama about one atheist’s research-driven conversion to Christianity.

Shroud of turin debunked 2016