It looks like a modern by-product of all the parochial schools and their religious teachings and today pop culture. Kevin Smith's films have deep seated storytelling typical for the English language comic books and thus they make him the only director/writer trying to achieve an immersion of pop culture with art. Of course, right wing political figures such as William Donohue will always be there, to protest and show that such a thing can be nothing but blasphemous, for what is the church as an institution, but a way of an attempt to control the mind of the people (please do not attack me here, I am religious, but religion and church are two very different ideas).
The God, as portrayed by Smith is very much human 'he is lonely, but he is funny' comments one of the angels. This film takes a detailed knowledge of the Catholicism, and ads to it some vulgar prophets, who would like nothing more than to get into the heroine's pants, creating a rather enjoyable experience.
The story is the following: Mat Damon and Ben Affleck play Loki and Bartleby, two angels cast out of heaven and exiled for all eternity to Wisconsin hear about trendy bishop, (George Carlin) who tries to revamp the church removing the Jesus from the cross and placing him into a new Buddy Jesus, a Christ who blesses the followers with an A-OK sign, also anyone entering the cathedral will get a pelenary indulgence (something I had to look up - all your punishment for any sin is remitted and you can go directly into the Heaven). Bartleby and Loki see the loophole, they will be able to return.
The problem with this plan is explained by Metatron, the voice of God (Alan Rickman), an angel who appears as a pillar of fire in the bedroom of Bethany (Linda Fiorentino), and he explains that if those two angels would re-enter Heaven, God will be proven fallible and all the existence would end, and Bethany, as a last surviving relative of Jesus on Earth, two prophets will appear to her and guide her to her destiny.
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