Don Verdean (PG - 13 profanity, coarse language, suggestive content and brief violence) Sam Rockwell plays the title character in this irreverent Christian comedy revolving around a cash - strapped cleric who hopes to inspire his congregation by finding
sacred relics in the Holy Land.
Hired by an ambitious small - town pastor to find
sacred relics in the Holy Land, a self - proclaimed Biblical archaeologist comes up short and his attempt to cover up his failure fuels a comic conspiracy from the filmmaking team behind Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre.
Not exact matches
at what part
in the Bible does the dismemberment of a corpse and taking its heart as a
sacred relic exist?
In Greece, I'm told, many Byzantine icons have been literally «defaced» by the pious who fleck off little pieces of the «holy» object (particularly about the eyes) and keep them as
sacred relics.
Religion, after all, is constituted by symbolism — whether
in primitive amulets, totems, and rituals, the earth and sky god mythologies of ancient civilizations, crucifixes and
relics of the medieval church, formalized texts and creeds of the world's great modern religions, or even the
sacred rites and markers we use to define ourselves, our relations to nature, our sense of personal identity, and our collective loyalties and destinies.
WHAT: Self - proclaimed biblical archeologist Don Verdean (Sam Rockwell) is hired by a small - town pastor (Danny McBride) to dig up
sacred relics from the Holy Land
in order to boost attendance at his church.
-LSB-...] may say the beauty of Belize lies
in the great adventures: diving the Blue Hole, swimming with whale sharks, exploring caves that hold
sacred Mayan
relics and sacrificial remains, jungle expeditions, -LSB-...]
On the other hand, «face time» (for the sake of face time) is, for better and worse, more than simply an antiquated
relic of a simpler time —
in some cases it may seem an almost
sacred element of firm culture.»