Julia Sweeney - Letting Go of God

Julia Sweeney - Letting Go of God

Breaking up is hard to do

2008•2h 10m•8.2/10

ComedyDocumentary

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8.2/10(14)

Julia Sweeney's third autobiographical monologue, Letting Go of God takes the audience through her Catholic upbringing and how personal events in her life and that of her family led her to a disbelief in a personal universal deity.

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Indefatigable, Inc., Five Sisters Productions

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EN

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Julia Sweeney

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