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My favorite response to Saved!

Jeffrey Overstreet

07 Jun 2004
Filed under: On Movies & Media • Lord... Save Us From Your Followers! • Michael Leary • Quotable • Saved!

The best response to the movie Saved! that I've heard yet is a one-line quip passed along by my friend Michael Leary, who heard someone else say it after a screening of the film...

"The Church will only be doing what it really should be doing when it won't be possible to satirize it."

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