Harold Cronk, director of the original film as well as whatever this might be, has agreed to return for the sequel, and known sorceress Melissa Joan Hart has renounced her teenage-witch ways for a starring role in the picture. Production on God’s Not Dead 2, a film disappointingly not titled God’s Still Not Dead or God’s Not Deader or God: Not Dead And Loving It, has already begun in Arkansas. But it also turned around a $62.6 million gross on a $2 million budget, so you can bet your rosary beads that there’s gonna be more where that came from. It’s simplistic, tone-deaf, insulting, and worst of all, completely wrongheaded with regards to the actual tenets of Christianity.

With more straw men than a scarecrow storage facility, God’s Not Dead lays out subplots in increasing levels of absurdity, from a lefty blogger who develops cancer as a divine consequence for her anti- Duck Dynasty posts to a Dean Cain-played businessman who owes all of his professional successes to Satan. The film centers on a villainous college philosophy professor who mandates that all students in his course sign a declaration that the Judeo-Christian conception of God does not exist, and the defiant, devout student who bravely stands up to him.

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