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Park, Jai Young. “‘You never did anything bad?’: Challenges to Religion in Stone.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 42.3 (2016): 23-39. The film Stone (2010) written by Angus MacLachlan and directed by John Curran not only visualizes the hypocritical aspects of Christianity but portrays the complexity of faith, reality, reason, desire, love, morality, and social normality with diverse characters: Jack, whose religion has become no more than a culture and habit; Stone, who challenges Jack’s religious perceptions and morality; Lucetta, who deconstructs the borderlines between love and moral principles and desire and pleasure; and Madylyne, who has lost her “life” in the “dungeon” of religious marriage. The film presents to the viewers such questions as what sin is, who can judge human beings about their sin, what religion is, what the essence and discrepancy of Christianity are, what morality is, and so forth. This paper attempting to answer those questions scrutinizes the four characters in the context of ideological discussions between atheists and theists. It will borrow ideas from representative atheists like Richard Dawkins and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong to explicate the argument of atheist perspectives against religion, primarily conservative Christianity, and some theist ideas from Christian theorists to refute them. (Chonbuk National University)