I appreciate this documentarian’s low key and Socratic style.  He doesn’t make his opinion overly obvious.  He lets his interviewees tell their story.

Sadly, the category of spiritual and religious truth is diminished.  I doubt this is intentional.  It is the inevitable consequence of creating, and maintaining, a religion free civilization.  Science, technology and progress pushed religion off the Western stage centuries ago.

Most troubling is the obvious lack of love for enemies, along with the religious/moral supremacy, of the people to whom he dedicates the most time.  Christianity is historically a positive developmental force for human virtue.  This is not to say that the Christian religion gets it right every single time.  It is to say that the founder of the faith commanded his followers to love their enemies.

His example of grace and love so inflamed the particular jews of his day that they crucified him while releasing a political prisoner.  Israel is doing the same thing today — choosing politics and power over their Messiah’s message delivered at great cost to himself 2000 years ago.

I want to live in a world where cultural and religious differences don’t undergird forever wars managed by the power dynamics of exclusivity and empire.  I’m agnostic on the political mechanism each nation should choose to get there.  Democracy isn’t divine.  Managed democracy is retarded.

Selah.