John Safran vs God is an eight-part television documentary series by John Safran which was broadcast on SBS TV of Australia in 2004. It has been described in a media release as "John Safran's most audacious project yet". It had a much more serious tone than Safran's previous work Music Jamboree. The show was released by Ghost of Your Ex-Boyfriend Productions and SBS Independent, was co-written with Mark O'Toole, directed by Craig Melville, and produced by Richard Lowenstein, Selin Yaman and Ghost Pictures. The production team was known as Ghost of Your Ex-Boyfriend Productions, an amalgamation of John Safran's Ex-Boyfriend Productions, and Richard Lowenstein's Ghost Productions. The series won the 2005 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Comedy Series. The show's opening theme is "Hate Priest" by the band Mozart on Crack. The opening sequence features John in a black suit breaking out of a patch of black scorched earth with his bare hands during a thunderstorm. The words of Revelation 20:7, "when the thousand years are over Satan will be released from his prison", are spoken in a low pseudo-ominous voice. Episode guide Episode one In the UK, Safran meets Sheikh Omar Bakri and Sheikh Abu Hamza and succeeds in getting a fatwa placed on Rove McManus for dropping John's scheduled appearance on Rove Live. The fatwa was later removed from McManus. Safran tries out a religion based on the hallucinogenic cactus plant Peyote; vomiting and weak hallucinations ensue. Safran examines Scientology at the expense of Jamie Packer and the Nine Network. Episode two Safran looks at the duplicity of Australia's "Sorry" attitude to Indigenous Rights Safran tries out zen Buddhism in Japan, the segment includes two incidents of Safran being beaten with a stick as punishment for mistakes made with meditation and philosophical questions Safran examines the link between Satanism and Freemasonry Episode three Despite being Jewish, Safran attempts to join a branch of the Ku Klux Klan in California Safran tries out Catholicism under the guidance of Father Bob Maguire Safran holds a competition in which Australian-Palestinians vie for his Israeli citizenship by recreating segments from Music Jamboree Episode four Safran examines Mormon cinema in Salt Lake City, proposing his "Extreme Mormons" film Safran tries out Vodou in Haiti, participating in the "Day of the Dead" ceremony John visits a Jewish gun advocate and rabbi in Los Angeles, in a bid to show that American gun rights