"This incisive documentary about America's growing fundamentalist empire is, to put it simply, a mindquaker. British documentary filmmaker Anthony Thomas trains an acute eye on all the arenas of America's current Christian revival-from the grass roots to the glittering skyscrapers of Dallas. He talks to ministers who decry the materialism of the secular world while surrounding their churches with material splendor, and back-to-basics theologians who talk of 'humanism' as if it were a dirty word. This movie, however topical, is also as timeless as Charles Dickens' studies of hypocrisy. It starts with a fair-minded appreciation for the stability that fundamentalist beliefs provide for uprooted people, particularly those scarred by drugs and sexual carelessness. Then Thomas shows how the PTL world-view turns a simple escape from today's chaos into a spiritual never-never land-a Disneyland of the soul that Jim and Tammy Bakker make literal in their Heritage U.S.A. fun park. Thomas, more upfront about his biases than American documentary filmmakers, believes that the New Testament tells Christians to divest themselves of earthly goods and devote their lives to the meek and the poor. Yet when he explains this to the head of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, Dr. W. A. Criswell-and asks how he can reconcile his church's amassing of wealth with scripture-Criswell simply says that Thomas has 'the wrong idea of the Gospels.' Thy Kingdom Come is one muckraker that doesn't look or sound like muck..." -Michael Sragow, San Francisco Examiner