Director steps out on a ledge with new atheist movie

(RNS) In the new film "The Ledge," a man perches high above the city,
ready to jump to save the woman he loves.

As storylines go, perhaps it's not the most original. But what is
unusual about this film, said writer/director Matthew Chapman, is that
its hero is an atheist, set aloft to illustrate two themes close to
Chapman's heart.

"Religious intolerance is a very bad thing," he said as the film
opened last Friday (July 8) in New York and Los Angeles. "It is possible
to be good without God."