Ok, ok... i'm starting to regret asking people to watch this movie.  Look, if you have a faith that is easily challenged, and you are perfectly comfortable believing what you do now, then by all means DO NOT see this movie.  This movie is going to challenge you to verify what you believe in.  I know the whole Christian thing is hanging people up, but lets look at it objectively.  There are historical records of Jesus.  The movie itself even mentions three of them, and the discredited account of Josephus as well.  It uses this lack of a written record as evidence that Jesus must have just been some construct of the "men behind the curtain" that was created to further subjugate us.  It never mentions that the gospels themselves are all eyewitness transcripts, in a way, of christ's life.  As are the letters to and from Paul, the gnostic scriptures, the hidden gospels of Thomas, and God knows how many other treatises that the "church" has hidden from us over the centuries "for our own good."  The fact is this:  the incidental stuff doesn't matter.  It does not matter what day he was born on, if his mother was a virgin or not, how many disciples he had, the three kings and a star in the east, etc.  These are things that have been and can be manipulated, exagerrated, even translated differently depending on what kind of message they want to impart in His name.  What He said and did are the things that matter. Those truths about love and forgiveness and the golden rule; about eternity, oneness, and or relationship with The Creator, those things cannot be impuned by doubt because they ring true within us, right?  If you can feel God in your heart then that should be the basis of your faith not what some asshole in Rome 2000 years decided would keep us all calm.  So, relax.  Isn't it better to know what kind of bullshit they are trying to feed you, even if it challenges your faith?  Furthermore, do not get hung up on the religious aspect of the film and let that be a catalyst to the dismissal of the rest of it.  Leave the faith stuff out of it completely if you must and just watch parts 2 and 3.  But if you watch the whole thing and feel adrift spiritually, then let that be the impetus toward a new and more honest understanding of "salvation."  I could recommend all kinds of books on the topic, but i know no one fucking reads anything bigger than a blog these days.  Suffice it to say that you have a soul, (you are aware of it aren't you?) and that, in and of itself, should be all the evidence you need to have faith in God.  Now the IRS on the other hand... I for one will not be paying income tax ever again.  Fuck the Rockefellers, fuck the FRB, and fuck this one party system!  And while we're at it fuck Bono, MTV (remember "rock the vote?"), and Obama for making people believe that voting will change much less fix one single thing.  What does it mean to be free?  What does it take to be free?  Free of what, from what, to do what, to be what?  Are you free?  What would have to change to make you so, and can you get there from here?  I believe we are at a tipping point.  Within the next few years the world (the USA for sure) will be in an intractable state of stupidity.  5000 cable channels in HD, PS 2, and a new Mac Book with all the porn i can stand to download day and night; prozac, lunesta, viagara, liquor, xanex, terrorism, high crime areas, RFID chips in yr chicken noodle soup, cameras everywhere, stay in your homes and be grateful that these smart important men are protecting you from the world at large... we are almost past the point of no return.  We will as a body will have become so numb and detatched from the actual turning of the wheels that it will take centuries to recapture our inalienable rights.  The time is indeed now.  We are either going to fight this, or hit the snooze button and roll over!  Ask me what i plan to do if you give a shit.  I could go on and on.....