Stand back to get the big picture, and the movie isn't blasphemous so much as devout by an extremely indirect route. Maybe people saw earlier drafts on the Web. My stuff often reads more harsh than the way it plays out. When she saw the movie, she asked me what I cut out. It's all in the delivery.
Stuff comes across a lot different on the screen when it's coming out of a well-honed actor's mouth.
I was reminded of how George Bernard Shaw's characters debated weighty issues in the midst of melodrama and comedy.