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New ‘Faith Based’ Comedy Skewers the Crass Consumerism of Evangelical Media

October 9, 2020 by Staff

(Huffpost) Call it a buddy flick with a religious twist.

“Faith Based” is the story of two slackers who set out to cash in on evangelical Christian media by making a low-budget film about the first prayer in space. 

“Why do all these Christian movies have to be bad?” asks Luke, played by “Funny or Die” veteran Luke Barnett. 

“They don’t have to be bad,” film executive Jane (Margaret Cho) says. “They just don’t have to be good.” 

Barnett, who also wrote the film, told HuffPost he’s not mocking the religion itself. 

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