"The shoe! We shall worship The Shoe!"
I saw this film once a long, long time ago on cable tv and that's about all I can remember about it, other than the streetcorner oracle predicting "... and fathers shall misplace their tools and blame their sons for their forgetfullness...".
About the CNN story, I didn't know this part:
"Life of Brian," stirred an uproar all its own 25 years ago, with some Christians condemning the film as blasphemous. The film only got made when former Beatle George Harrison stepped in to finance the picture after EMI Films withdrew from the project, fearing that it was too controversial.