In the spirit of this bloody war we’ve been waging against Christmas and its persecuted practitioners, I felt it was my duty to link to the trailer for Brian Flemming’s new documentary, “The God Who Wasn’t There.” In the film, Flemming, perhaps best known as the author of the off-Broadway hit “Bat Boy: The Musical,” suggests that Jesus Christ, much like Santa Claus, is a figment of our collective imaginations.

Personally, I would have settled for a film outlining the apparent discrepancies between the teachings of Jesus and the actions of his followers here on earth, or even perhaps a film calling into question his virgin birth, but Flemming decides to go one giant step further, suggesting that the man described in the Christian gospels never even existed. When asked by the LA Times why he chose to question Jesus’ mere existence rather than just his divinity, Flemming said, “I think that the idea that an individual could be the son of a god is already so ridiculous it doesn’t need to be debunked.” Judging from that response, I’m guessing he’s not too interested in finding common ground. One just hopes for his sake that the fervent believers in this country are a bit more willing to turn the other cheek than they were in Amsterdam, when another ballsy filmmaker decided to call the legitimacy of a very popular religion into question.

…OK, as long as I’ve gone this far, I might as well go all the way and also link to the episode of Penn and Teller’s “Bullshit” in which they debunk the Bible.

Happy Holidays.