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''John Safran vs God'' is an 8 part Television Documentary series by John Safran which was broadcast on the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) of Australia in 2004 . Described in a media release as " Safran's most audacious project yet". Despite being an irreverent look at World Religion s and Theology in general, Safran managed to be both informative and entertaining, without being outright offensive. It had a much more serious tone than Safran's previous work '' Music Jamboree ''. The show was released by Ghost Of Your Ex-Boyfriend Productions and SBS Independent , it was directed by Craig Melville and produced by Selin Yaman . The series won the 2005 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Comedy Series. To his detractors, the informal format was received as being slightly condescending. On his official website his ex-girlfriend/webmistress says about the series, "There is only one thing worse than someone shoving their religious views down your throat, and that's someone shoving their smarmy, superior views on religious beliefs down your throat". The show's opening theme was ''Hate Priest'', a Satanic-Rock stylised tune by the band Mozart On Crack . The opening sequence featured John in a black suit breaking out of a patch of black scorched earth with his bare hands during a thunderstorm. The words ''"When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison." Revelation 20:7'' are spoken. John himself says this on religion: :“I’m definitely pro-religion, more so than anti-religion, I constantly feel like I’m going to get into trouble for the things I do, even if there’s no logical reason for me to get into trouble. So that’s the reason, I think, why I must believe there is something “there”, God or whatever. Because why would I feel like I’m doing something wrong if I believed there was nobody around to punish me for it?" {Link without Title} EPISODE GUIDE Episode One - Confession
Episode Two - Suffering
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Episode Five - Masturbation
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Episode Eight - Exorcism The eighth episode was the most controversial. Instead of its usual format of various segments, the show featured a single story: the and Television plug spots for the show post-production pre-screening, and only briefly mentioned the exorcism episode as a very intense segment to film. After the screening of the episode Safran appeared in interview on ABC radio and said he didn't remember a lot of the experience. The sales pitch for the recently released DVD goes "''You've seen the exorcism, now buy the DVD''" SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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