![]() Seeing the united front the kids give Melissa Joan Hart in support you know this is a Bible Belt community she's from. And those who don't believe are either sinners beyond redemption or a fertile evangelical field to be plowed. They're right, the Bible is the word of God not to be questioned or given alternative interpretation. It's a truly simplistic world these folks live in. I'm sure it will play heavily on the Christian film circuit and will be rented a lot by youth pastors all over the Bible Belt once it goes to DVD. This one played like a long episode story from the 700 Club. The original God's Not Dead was a Christian propaganda piece, but in terms of the film the story was interestingly presented. Mike Huckabee is playing himself as Fox New commentator and he's probably cursing the fact that God's Not Dead 2 was released after he called a halt to his presidential campaign. I guess different rules apply in Judge Ernie Hudson's court. That's not what happens here as Jesse Metcalfe is allowed to bring in religious 'expert' testimony from some real folk playing themselves. I brought up the Scopes Trial and those of us who've seen any version of Inherit The Wind remember that the judge ruled out scientific expert testimony about evolution. Hart's lawyer is Jesse Metcalfe late of the revived TV Dallas and he's the hero of the piece saving Hart's job and right to her beliefs. Ray Wise is a properly smarmy lawyer whom if he wore a handlebar mustache would be twirling it. The school board retains the biggest villain in the evangelical modern world, the American Civil Liberties Union. With all seriousness and ingenuousness she replied she wasn't talking about religion to her students, she was talking about Jesus. ![]() She was told that she could not be talking about religion. I remember many years ago in New York City in the Bronx I believe there was a teacher fired for bringing up Jesus as her evangelical faith tells her she has to. All that should be happening here is a legal appeal of an administrative ruling and certainly that is civil. Now what John Thomas Scopes was put on trial for teaching evolution back in the 20s, that was a criminal matter. For what I'm still not sure as this is not a criminal matter. Somebody tapes the lesson and Hart's hauled up before the school board and then put on trial. In this film, Advanced Placement History teacher Melissa Joan Hart is suspended when she quotes from the Gospel of Matthew in answer to a student's question concerning Jesus, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King. The life of the Creator/Deity of the infinite universe of time, space, and matter gets a second go round in God's Not Dead 2. Reviewed by bkoganbing 2 / 10 A truly simplistic world
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