The Case for Remaking God's Not Dead 2

No, I haven't seen this movie. No, as of the typing of this post and the posting, God's Not Dead 2 hasn't even been released, yet. Technically, I could be taking a risk that my assessment of the problems with this movie is incredibly off. In fact, the release date is this Friday, April 1, AKA April Fool's Day. That means that, technically, we could wind up with a movie that is deliberately misrepresented by the trailers.

We could, in fact, get a movie that deliberately shows the events of the first movie and of the trailer to be the misrepresentation of events by a Christian subculture that has a narrative-driven distortion of events... But, I'm getting ahead of myself.

The trailers for the first God's Not Dead were pretty spot on for the story line. So, using the trailers for the sequel, this will be the story of a High-school teacher put through some kind of administrative hearing, in which either some judge or some effective prosecutor wants to prove that God is Dead.
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