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Executive Producers: Richard Lowenstein, Rohan Timlock
Producer: Selin Yaman
Director: Craig Melville

Aired: 2004 (SBS)

In his most ludicrously ambitious project yet, media hooligan John Safran scours the world in search of God... and finds Him. Or at least, a lot of folk who believe they have. John Safran Versus God is an eight-part visual encyclopedia of faith around the globe - a rummage through the mosques, temples, churches and chicken coops of the religious world. The results of hundreds of hours of footage shot on five continents sees apostles of Buddhism, Catholicism, Judaism, Mormonism, Racism, Islam, Scientology and Voodoo suffering like ants under Safran's magnifying glass. But it's Safran himself who often feels the heat.