GOD IS NOT DEAD

Interesting movie out, not that I see many movies. This one is about the struggle of someone who believes in God, and then gets to liberal progressive controlled university, where he is told “God is dead”.

The struggle between Good and Evil. Democrats booed God at their last convention, and God has to be eliminated by socialist and communist ideals so that the masses can be better controlled. Obama and the liberal progressives see themselves as God.

This battle is going on every day, at campuses around the country. The liberal progressives are winning: millennials support big government and democrats, and many support overt communism. The schools have done their job well.


How far would you go…to defend your belief in God?

Present-day college freshman and devout Christian, Josh Wheaton (Shane Harper), finds his faith challenged on his first day of Philosophy class by the dogmatic and argumentative Professor Radisson (Kevin Sorbo). Radisson begins class by informing students that they will need to disavow, in writing, the existence of God on that first day, or face a failing grade. As other students in the class begin scribbling the words “God Is Dead” on pieces of paper as instructed, Josh find himself at a crossroads, having to choose between his faith and his future. Josh offers a nervous refusal, provoking an irate reaction from his smug professor.

Radisson assigns him a daunting task: if Josh will not admit that “God Is Dead,” he must prove God’s existence by presenting well-researched, intellectual arguments and evidence over the course of the semester, and engage Radisson in a head-to-head debate in front of the class. If Josh fails to convince his classmates of God’s existence, he will fail the course and hinder his lofty academic goals. With almost no one in his corner, Josh wonders if he can really fight for what he believes.

Can he actually prove the existence of God? Wouldn’t it just be easier just to write “God Is Dead” and put the whole incident behind him? GOD’S NOT DEAD weaves together multiple stories of faith, doubt and disbelief, culminating in a dramatic call to action. The film will educate, entertain, and inspire moviegoers to explore what they really believe about God, igniting important conversations and life-changing decisions.

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El ILEGAL
El ILEGAL

Then they took the ox which was given them and they prepared it and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon saying, “O Baal, answer us.” But there was no voice and no one answered. And they leaped about the altar which they made. 27It came about at noon, that Elijah mocked them and said, “Call out with a loud voice, for he is a god; either he is occupied or gone aside, or is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and needs to be awakened.” 28So they cried with a loud voice and cut themselves according to their custom with swords and lances until the blood gushed out on them

El ILEGAL
El ILEGAL

Rather The letter Professor Talc received:

Your total ignorance of that which you profess to teach merit’s the death penalty. I doubt whether you would know that St. Cassian of Imola was stabbed to death by his students with their styli. His death, a martyr’s honorable one, made him a patron saint of teachers.
Pray to him, you deluded fool, you ‘anyone for tennis?’ golf-playing, cocktail-quaffing pseudo-pedant, for you do indeed need a heavenly patron. Although your days are numbered, you will not die as a martyr-for you further no holy cause-but as the total ass which you really are.
Zorro

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“Does evil exist?

The university professor challenged his students with this question. Did God create everything that exists? A student bravely replied, “Yes, he did!”

“God created everything? The professor asked.

“Yes sir”, the student replied.

The professor answered, “If God created everything, then God created evil since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are then God is evil”. The student became quiet before such an answer. The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said, “Can I ask you a question professor?”

“Of course”, replied the professor.

The student stood up and asked, “Professor, does cold exist?”

“What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?” The students snickered at the young man’s question.

The young man replied, “In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat.”

The student continued, “Professor, does darkness exist?”

The professor responded, “Of course it does.”

The student replied, “Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton’s prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn’t this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present.”

Finally the young man asked the professor, “Sir, does evil exist?”

Now uncertain, the professor responded, “Of course as I have already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man’s inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil.”

To this the student replied, “Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God’s love present in his heart. It’s like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.”

The professor sat down.

The young man’s name — Albert Einstein.”

El Coyote
El Coyote

The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Stucky

Seeing that movie is like talking to Nonanonymous for ninety minutes. No thanks.

It got skewered on RottenTomatoes ….. 13%. I watched the movie clips. It looks horrendous.

Stucky

“How far would you go…to defend your belief in God?” ———— AWD

Defended against whom?? There is no REAL persecution of Christians in this country. When was the last time a person died (that’s real persecution) in America for their beliefs? The question, imho, is moot.

Zarathustra

Thanks Stucky for the heads up. I wouldn’t have watched it anyway…ain’t my god.

bb

Work in progress , thanks for you post .Albert was not an atheist but I’m not sure what he really believed about God.

El Coyote
El Coyote

It sounds like one of those old bullshit movies where, for instance, a town outlaws dancing. Then one young idealist rebel changes the minds of the blind conformists. Sorta like the story of TBP.

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@bb,

Snopes (who made snopes the know it alls anyway?) says it isn’t true.

Gayle
Gayle

One of the more attractive attributes of God is that he forces no one to take him seriously..

El Coyote
El Coyote

Gayle says:

“One of the more attractive attributes of God is that he forces no one to take him seriously..”

You must be referring to Ahura Mazda, who neither demands worship nor rewards it.

Otherwise, Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

Zarathustra

El Coyote, I receive you as my brother. Ahura Mazda has inspired me, perhaps commanded me…I do not know…to spread the teachings of Zarathustra to those who are like me, not of the culture in which he lived, nor of those today his message is limited by. Zoroastrianism is not a religion of the blood..only the march of history and the desire of the devout to preserve their culture after foreign invasion has made it thus. Ahura Mazda’s love of us, and our potential within creation, is open to all of us.

Thus spake me.

El Coyote
El Coyote

Stucky says:

“When was the last time a person died (that’s real persecution) in America for their beliefs?”

Not sure if it counts; the girl who got killed at Columbine was asked if she believed in Jesus.

El Coyote
El Coyote

El Coyote says:

“It sounds like one of those old bullshit movies where, for instance, a town outlaws dancing. Then one young idealist rebel changes the minds of the blind conformists. Sorta like the story of TBP.”

I done created a cat-dog here. I was criticizing the movie Footloose when it occurred to me that JQ is like that pssionate young maverick. Sorry for the miscommunication.

Zarathustra

T4C, Mathematics is the language of God and physics are the laws of creation. If you wish to find the true God (creator of the universe), locate the prophet whose teachings, however ancient, are in complete harmony with what we know about both.

Gayle
Gayle

El Coyote

The operative word in my brief post is Force. Does God force any individual’s belief? Is there no free will? Why are many so defensive about the Biblical God if he grants complete freedom to believe whatever you want as you walk this earth? That is not to say it makes no difference what is believed. The consequences of the choice – for good or ill – in this life and the life hereafter, are fully owned by each of us.

Happy Easter by the way.

El Coyote
El Coyote

Senseless man will create gods by the dozens. Sure, they are money, women, electronic gadgets, and all sorts of lusts such as food, drugs, big houses can become an object of worship. This is the senselessness Michel is referring to. He is not speaking about the supernatural gods folks believe in and worship. They may imagine supernatural gods exist but that is not an act of creation. Creation is what exists. Here is a conundrum, God exists for ever and ever but He is not created.

El Coyote
El Coyote

Gayle says:

“The operative word in my brief post is Force.”

True, I made it sound like you’d said ‘obligate’. My intent was to differentiate between Mazda and Jeebus.

I would rather worship a God so marvelous that angels worship incessantly, a God more beautiful than a thousand Helens or Gayles, than worship a god that is indifferent.

Gayle
Gayle

El

He’s not the least bit indifferent!
But he will not violate the free will he has given us.
The two guys hanging on their crosses with Jesus illustrate this conundrum.

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The question for me is why is the young man wasting his time and money attending a class at a brick and mortar whorehouse when his can get the same exposure to whim and whine online and for free?The kid has bigger problems than a perfessor popping on his faith.

After the kid get has had faith sufficiently deluded , he can join the Honky Knights debate club and get his culture trashed by the wise and wily African’t-American non-debaters.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

http://www.voxday.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-end-of-debate.html
The end of debate
Forget Aristotle’s distinction between dialectic and rhetoric. The devolution of formal debate means that it doesn’t even rise to the level of rhetoric any longer.

It used to be that if you went to a college-level debate tournament, the students you’d see would be bookish future lawyers from elite universities, most of them white. In matching navy blazers, they’d recite academic arguments for and against various government policies. It was tame, predictable, and, frankly, boring.

No more.

These days, an increasingly diverse group of participants has transformed debate competitions, mounting challenges to traditional form and content by incorporating personal experience, performance, and radical politics. These “alternative-style” debaters have achieved success, too, taking top honors at national collegiate tournaments over the past few years.

But this transformation has also sparked a difficult, often painful controversy for a community that prides itself on handling volatile topics.

On March 24, 2014 at the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) Championships at Indiana University, two Towson University students, Ameena Ruffin and Korey Johnson, became the first African-American women to win a national college debate tournament, for which the resolution asked whether the U.S. president’s war powers should be restricted. Rather than address the resolution straight on, Ruffin and Johnson, along with other teams of African-Americans, attacked its premise. The more pressing issue, they argued, is how the U.S. government is at war with poor black communities.

In the final round, Ruffin and Johnson squared off against Rashid Campbell and George Lee from the University of Oklahoma, two highly accomplished African-American debaters with distinctive dreadlocks and dashikis. Over four hours, the two teams engaged in a heated discussion of concepts like “nigga authenticity” and performed hip-hop and spoken-word poetry in the traditional timed format. At one point during Lee’s rebuttal, the clock ran out but he refused to yield the floor. “Fuck the time!” he yelled. His partner Campbell, who won the top speaker award at the National Debate Tournament two weeks later, had been unfairly targeted by the police at the debate venue just days before, and cited this personal trauma as evidence for his case against the government’s treatment of poor African-Americans.

Further evidence in support of my time-to-civilization hypothesis. At this point, the debate competitions may as well bring in gorillas from the zoo and distribute the “debate” awards on the basis of which primate was able to throw the most fecal matter. That “alternative-style” of debate is no less dialectically legitimate than hip-hop, spoken-word poetry, and appeals to “nigga authenticity”.

If I were a college student these days, I would show up for a debate wearing a dress and smeared red lipstick, and no matter what the resolution was, start rapping very passionately about how the more pressing issue was how the U.S. government refused to let me marry a silverback gorilla. Then I’d turn it over to my partner, Baraka from the National Zoo, who would take a massive dump on the stage before chucking large handfuls of it at the other competitors, hooting and howling all the while.

If logic is white privilege, so too is civilization. I suppose we can look forward to this alternative style of debate percolating into the legal system:

“Y’ownah, I object that my client ain’t guilty and shit!”

“You can’t object to that.”

“Shut yo mouth, you ain’t no AUTHENTICATED nigga. Uncah Tom!”

“Excuse me?”

“FREE MAH PEOPLE! NO JUSTISS NO PEACE!”

From sign language to the foundation of science fiction to formal debate, it’s all inexplicable magic to the half-savages. They can see the forms, they can even mimic them to a certain extent, but they simply do not understand the core functions and rationales underlying the observable actions. And they don’t have any chance whatsoever of sustaining a modern technological society. None.

This may be distasteful news to you. But no matter what they say, A is A. A will ALWAYS be A. A is NEVER Not-A. It never will be.
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Truth and the Resurrection

There are those who say that the Resurrection of Jesus Christ of Nazareth is merely a story. They will claim, falsely, that the Risen Lord is derived from an agricultural myth. They will assert, wrongly, that “Easter is originally the celebration of Ishtar, the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility and sex.” They will declare, contra the historical evidence, that Jesus Christ never lived or was crucified on a cross by the Roman authorities.

It is strange, is it not, that they should tell so many palpable lies in the service of that which they say to be truth?

The Apostle Paul once said that if the story of the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ is not true, then we Christians are the saddest and most pathetic of all men. Everything we do, everything we believe, everything for which we hope and strive, is a lie.

It is strange, is it not, that so many observable and long-lived truths should stand so firmly on such a flimsy foundation of falsehood?

From Plato to Zelazny, men of letters have written of the purer things, that in their perfection spawn lesser shadows and imitations that reflect but an aspect of the true essence. From where does truth come, if not the Truth? And did Jesus not say that he was the Way, the Truth, and the Life?

Those who are Aristotelian devotees of reality stand by the Lesser Truth that A is A, and that A is never Not-A. But the Lesser Truth descends from, and depends upon, the Greater Truth, which is this:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Yesterday the light shone in the darkness. Today the light shines in the darkness. Tomorrow the light will shine in the darkness. And the darkness will never, ever, overcome it.

It is not a story, it is The Story, it is the oldest story, it is the true story from which all other stories flow. Light versus dark. And despite the darkness that surrounds us, that pervades us, that haunts us, the light of all mankind is winning.

That is why, all around the world this morning, there are millions of men and women who will greet each other with three simple words of hope and truth and triumph.

Christ is risen!
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A ship without an anchor is a ship without a port.

“You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
Walker Percy

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The irony behind atheism is not one pretends to care one whit for anything Christianity , but at the mere mention of God , the faithless fly all to pieces , and commit acts of grievance against the nearest believer, but for some reason unicorns , fairies and leprechauns do not illicit the came frothing reaction from the godless.

“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” C. S. Lewis

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When the freedom to worship is denied, faith becomes a more powerful influence in all things associated with personal liberty and moral courage. Maybe when Americans are denied the right to worship, their desire for the light will become more intense and the conviction in God , unbreakable.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10776023/China-on-course-to-become-worlds-most-Christian-nation-within-15-years.html
China on course to become ‘world’s most Christian nation’ within 15 years
The number of Christians in Communist China is growing so steadily that it by 2030 it could have more churchgoers than America

“Mao thought he could eliminate religion. He thought he had accomplished this,” Prof Yang said. “It’s ironic – they didn’t. They actually failed completely.”

Like many Chinese churches, the church in the town of Liushi, 200 miles south of Shanghai in Zhejiang province, has had a turbulent history.

It was founded in 1886 after William Edward Soothill, a Yorkshire-born missionary and future Oxford University professor, began evangelising local communities.

But by the late 1950s, as the region was engulfed by Mao’s violent anti-Christian campaigns, it was forced to close.

Liushi remained shut throughout the decade of the Cultural Revolution that began in 1966, as places of worship were destroyed across the country.

Since it reopened in 1978 its congregation has gone from strength to strength as part of China’s officially sanctioned Christian church – along with thousands of others that have accepted Communist Party oversight in return for being allowed to worship.

Today it has 2,600 regular churchgoers and holds up to 70 baptisms each year, according to Shi Xiaoli, its 27-year-old preacher. The parish’s revival reached a crescendo last year with the opening of its new 1,500ft mega-church, reputedly the biggest in mainland China.

“Our old church was small and hard to find,” said Ms Shi. “There wasn’t room in the old building for all the followers, especially at Christmas and at Easter. The new one is big and eye-catching.”

The Liushi church is not alone. From Yunnan province in China’s balmy southwest to Liaoning in its industrial northeast, congregations are booming and more Chinese are thought to attend Sunday services each week than do Christians across the whole of Europe.

El Coyote
El Coyote

•”Gongora, like Lyly in England and [Giambattista] Marini in Italy, enjoyed the fame of founding a bad school. It was Gongorism: that is, the art of writing not to make oneself read, which could only suit lawyers, orators, critics, and scientists, but the art of writing to cause one’s idea only to be discovered after many efforts, or even so as to prevent its being discovered at all. Gongorism belongs to every epoch, and in each epoch is the means of scaring away the crowd, of obtaining a small band of enthusiastic admirers, and of being able to scorn the suffrage of the multitude.”
(Émile Faguet, Initiation Into Literature. Translated by Home Gordon, 1914)

•Gongorism in Shakespeare
“In style, too, Shakespeare strangely recalls past vogues in Spanish literature. Don Quixote delighted in Feliciano de Silva’s long-winded romances of chivalry for their lucidity of style, and especially for such complicated conceits as ‘the reason of the unreason with which my reason is afflicted so weakens my reason that with reason I murmur at your beauty,’ which were as pearls in his sight. He would have been equally dazzled by Romeo’s ‘O single-soled jest, solely singular for thy singleness!’ and Richard the Second’s
Your cares set up do not pluck my cares down.
My care is loss of care, by old care done;
Your care is gain of care, by new care won.
The cares I give I have, though given away;
They tend the crown, yet still with me they stay;
while the poor gentleman might well have lain awake trying to unravel the carefully plaited reasoning of Cardinal Pandulph in King John. In spite of the warning against affectation which he puts in Hamlet’s mouth, Shakespeare could serve ‘a very fantastical banquet’ of words, ‘just so many strange dishes’ as there were tastes, with the result that critics have recognized his gongorism before ever gongorism was.”
(H. Thomas, “Shakespeare and Spain,” 1922. Oxford Lectures on Literature, 1908-1922, ed. by Arthur Berriedale Keith. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1922)

El Coyote
El Coyote

“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”

OMG – T4C, affectation in writing is bad enough without meeting someone whose affectations are personal. Conceit never goes out of fashion. I can imagine the spirit of Michel is alive today in the person of Kanye or even the Kenyan prince.

El Coyote
El Coyote

Gayle says:

“He’s not the least bit indifferent!”

No, of course not. His sacrifice on the cross after years of prophesies and promises that He would redeem the Joos and save the world is proof of that.

El Coyote
El Coyote

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Self-sacrifice and abnegation be damned. Our generation is the ME generation after all.
The beautiful blonde said her friends called complaining they hadn’t seen her in two days.
“They need their vitamin (me)” she said.

El Coyote
El Coyote

Oh that my head were waters And my eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night For the slain of the daughter of my people! Oh that I had in the desert A wayfarers’ lodging place; That I might leave my people And go from them! For all of them are adulterers, An assembly of treacherous men.…

El Coyote
El Coyote

T4C says:
“To love and honor one’s Self IS conceit?”

Not you, T4C, you are my favorite gender.

This is the female form, A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot, It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction, I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor, all falls aside but myself and it, Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what was expected of heaven or fear’d of hell, are now consumed, Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play out of it, the response likewise ungovernable, Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands all diffused, mine too diffused, Ebb stung by the flow and flow stung by the ebb, love-flesh swelling and deliciously aching, Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow and delirious nice, Bridegroom night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn, Undulating into the willing and yielding day, Lost in the cleave of the clasping and sweet-flesh’d day.

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