You don't understand. I have a relationship with my phone, we have a chemistry together, I can't explain it.

I watched Keeping the Faith on comedy central last weekend on a lazy afternoon. I remember liking this movie when I saw it a few years ago (it was made in 2000.) I'd really forgotten the details of the movie, I knew it had to do with a priest and a rabbi falling for the same girl, but forgot about a lot of the religious overtones.

Some people would find this movie morally bankrupt, and if I think about it clearly is. You have people going against their religious faiths, their lifelong vows, and keeping major secrets from best friends. Those are the kinds of things that typically make you dislike characters. The movie somehow manages to be light hearted and cute so we don't start really disliking the characters, but also serious enough that there's some impact.

Someone who was seriously religious might think differently, since both of the main characters are religious leaders and don't really act like it at all. It's like a movie made by secular people about what they imaging being a religious leader might be like. As a secular viewer, I thought it was cute, but I can image a religious viewer being a little insulted.

I liked it because I it has some wit, Jenna Elfman's character is lots of fun, and it includes a few struggles about interfaith relationships - something I have some personal experience with.

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