7. Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card Counting Christians
Site rank: 7, IMDb rank: 8
Director: Bryan Storkel
In a perfect distillation of the prosperity gospel preached by Joel Osteen and the late Robert Schuller, the Church Team was a blackjack card-counting group that decided they could beat the house but stay in God’s good graces. A whole house of irony is built on top of that foundation, including one member accused of “cheating” and a Gordian knot of rationalizations. To top it all off, this documentary was directed by one of the members of the group, and he and others now teach card-counting to others as a business. Ethical questions abound!
