Tonight Revelations premiers on NBC, an Armageddon themed six hour spiritual thriller penned by Omen screenwriter David Seltzer. The series portrays the conflict between the army of the day and the army of the night. It culminates in what Tom Shales of the Washington Post calls the “showdown of showdowns, a High Noon between Christ and Satan - the ultimate Wrestlemania.”

Shales thinks a series based on “the last – and wackiest – book of the New Testament” should at least be entertaining, which he and several other critics do not think Revelations is.

tothesource has not seen the Revelations pilot and is in no way endorsing the content or execution of this project.

What interests tothesource is Hollywood trying to repackage itself as Holywood.

Sure, their motivation is mostly financial. Hollywood is, after all, a business. When Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ became one of the top grossing films of all-time last year, it shocked even the most cynical studio head.

Faithful tothesource readers know that tothesource is always on the cultural prowl, looking for ways to encourage making room for faith not only in our private lives but also in our public space.

So when Hollywood, an industry that has ridiculed all things religious for decades, sticks its secular little toe into the ocean of religious experience, regardless of how adolescent or off-putting, we think it is worth noting.