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The Last Temptation of Christ (1988). Audiences may be shocked at representations of Jesus in films.
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The scientist Richard Dawkins’ views on religion as a virus and a delusion are well known, and he has had many television appearances on the topic. However, it is questionable whether Dawkins’ tendency to see everything in black and white — whereby religion is unequivocally bad and science is wholesome and good — adequately explains how religion should be conceived in the world today.
A topic that many of those who study religion are more interested in is whether the secular media have in some way challenged traditional religious institutions — and even taken on some of their functions.
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