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The Orange Order has apparently asked its members to stop using the term ‘RIP’ to express grief or sympathy after a death. It said the phrase is unbiblical, un-Protestant, and a form of superstition connected to Catholicism. ffs.
Despite Jimmy McGovern’s excellent Broken on TV recently, I’m still not a fan of religion. But there have been plenty of films around the subject, for and against, light and serious. I was tempted to pick The Invention Of Lying but instead I’ll go with one of the serious ones, in which being of different religions is the cause of much grief: the powerful and engrossing Ida.
What films about religion would you recommend? Or warn us to steer clear of?