Letting Go of God Author:Julia Sweeney From the inside, any supernatural belief system can seem absurd. “You drink God ’s blood? You could be a gnat in the next life? You can’t eat what?” Julia Sweeney’s brave, hilarious, moving new show “Letting Go of God” is a gale-force breath of fresh air into a mostly polemic dialogue about religion in our time. While she scores flawlessly deadp... more »an laughs at the expense of Mormonism, Deepak Chopra, Astrology and Catholicism (the tradition she was happily raised in) Sweeney is after much bigger game — challenging and disarming believers of all stripes and intensities, as well as scoffing at non-believers. As she says to an imaginary God near the shows end, “It’s because I take you so seriously that I can’t bring myself to believe in you.