The movie ends up losing quite a bit of credibility because we learn quite early on that Carradine doesn't believe that magic exists and doesn't believe that Jesus rose from the dead. His attitudes toward spiritual matters don't improve until much later in the movie when we learn he went on a guided meditation retreat at the conclusion of filming and gained clarity about spiritual matters. These insights might have helped convince Carradine that Jesus rose from the dead but if so they wouldn't have justified Carradine's obsession with