The Atheist Delusion

Ray Comfort is one of those people that at first look you want to like. He has even demonstrated some sense of humor at times, for instance, in the hilarious incident with the Banana where he too the Banana as being the perfect design by God only to have people point out to him that Bananas were essentially a domesticated fruit created my men and science. Some would have ranted and raved, Ray took it pretty well, at least publicly.

Whenever Ray makes a new movie he reminds me of a card dealer. His message is almost always the same and he mainly reshuffles the same deck of cards over and over: atheists are nasty people, if science cannot explain even a very in aspect of even a well-understood theory, then God is at work behind the scenes, he spends more time attacking atheism than he does making a case for his own beliefs.

This movie is no different.

Some time ago, Ray interviewed a number of prominent scientists and a few regular people. He then proceeded to edit those interviews so that he could turn the interviews into a puppet show where he was the puppet master.

That's when any respect I might have had for Ray Comfort disappeared, and since then I cannot trust a single thing he says.

I have studied filmmaking and video editing and I know very well how easy it is to edit an interview just so and have the subject say the exact opposite of what they meant. I don;t know if that trick was used here, I would need the raw footage to be sure, but since that was done by him in another movie, I have to assume he did it here too.

That's simply not acceptable. We can disagree, even vehemently, but when you cheat you lose any respect you might have deserved and Ray Comfort cheated. Did he cheat in this movie? I think so but I cannot know for sure yet. But he cheated in the past and he wasn't the least bit sorry when he was caught red-handed.

Certainly, this is a movie that deserves a negative score, but I have decided to give it 2 stars because the production values are a bit better than the norm.

It is very sad that people like Ray Comfort find it necessary to lie to make their god relevant. No one really cares what Ray Comfort or his cohorts believe. It's a free country, but in their case, the propaganda's final object is to take their beliefs and turn them into school curriculum and secular laws. That we cannot have.

Was actually hoping for more out of this. There was a lot of misleading information, a lot of he said, she said, basically smoke and mirrors and no facts at all.

Was really hoping to see something big where I could get and based information from, not until the end is when I realized I could never use this as base for something (or to even have an interesting argument and discussion about).

If you are trying to learn about the Bible, how Atheist think, how religious people think and simple trying to get some facts and information related to the topics, this movie is recommended. This way you will also see how awful it was and why I felt really bad without any hope for it whatsoever.

"The Atheist Delusion" is your standard Ray Comfort street interviews. This time his argument is one we've heard before, about creation needing a creator. Because a book couldn't make itself, DNA couldn't make itself, therefore, God, and specifically, the god of the Bible, did it. Atheists, we are told (and this we've also heard before) know that there is a god but deny it because they like fornication and pornography.

"The Atheist Delusion" is a full hour of the same old creationist arguments, street interviews and eventually Comfort's old "Are you a good person?" routine. It offers nothing we haven't seen or heard dozens of times before. On the plus side, it does have lots of beautiful stock footage of animals and nature.

Ugh, I don't even know what to say.

The filmmaker's stance is simply not logical and doesn't hold up to even the slightest intellectual reasoning or scientific process. Fitting, I guess, since his belief system is basically the opposite of scientific.

Smarmy, shifty wordplay and mind games on behalf of the extremely manipulative interviewer utterly invalidate any answers given by the unwitting interviewees, which is a shame, because so many of them seem to be quite rational, intelligent people.

To any non-theist, skeptic, critical thinker, or otherwise logical person, this movie is an utter joke. I was hoping there might be something to ponder, to contemplate, to question. But no. There was only the usual intelligent design propaganda and flawed reasoning over and over again.

Not worth watching.

This movie is painful to watch. After viewing it I was left with the question, "Is Ray Comfort a stupid, uneducated man or is this his shtick?" So I checked his bio. A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE is trying to teach us about science !!!Trying to correct some of the worlds most educated, intelligent men. The experts he lines up and interviews appear to be equally unaware. He attempts to debunk evolution using some of the most ridiculous logic I've heard. The bit where he questions the young adults on the probability of a book writing itself must be aimed at elementary school kids. Rays confusion on DNA is the hallmark of an uneducated person, and is just embarrassing. The fake atheists he questions had me laughing at one point. This movie is just a big collection of fools.