We knew to was coming, but I’m disappointed (so far) at the lack of counter opinions on many of the media/movie review sites.
I mean I know that this is due in part to the fact that most Conservatives have children to take care of, (because they didn’t abort them all) & because they have jobs they need to go to instead of having their hand out as a Liberal minion, or being one of those who spend their all time making sure the successful vote buying of the Democrats continues. I realize that these who collect welfare at the expense of those who are at work all day, do have more time to sit home & write more negative reviews on Ben Stein’s brilliant movie “Expelled”. However, we need to take time to defend truth, since these attackers are only interested in squashing it to protect their world views, their Government grants, & their welfare checks.
One thing that has been missed in the debate is this; How can you advocate liberal style “separation” of church & state, & then dutifully investigate intelligent design as a so called “scientist”?
The answer is, you can’t! Something has to give, or you don’t get any grant money. This is one of the reasons they hate the idea, & would rather stay in their little financial & ideological comfort zones!
The fact that these people don’t like the movie doesn’t bother me. What bothers me is the blatant lying they do while writing their reviews. Like one reviewer on Apple.com who said; “Darwin didn’t cause the Holocaust.” Nowhere in Stein’s movie does he say that Darwinism alone was sufficient to lead to the events. In fact, in the movie Stein himself says that though many of the principles of Darwin were believed by Hitler, he doesn’t think that was the only factor that led to the Holocaust. Other’s interviewed in the movie came to the same conclusion.
What is amazing to me is how badly todays Scientists have turned on science itself, & traded in the principled questioning & searching for answers, for the protection of their own political, social or religious ideologies. For instance, like it or not, their atheism is a “faith” of sorts. It takes faith to believe anything that you weren’t around to see. Scientists & Darwinists can cry all they want but that’s a fact they can’t change no matter how hard they try.
Most notably in Steins movie, the flagship or Darwinism Richard Dawkins is cornered by logic itself, into admitting that Intelligent design is possible. On a comical note though, he feebly tries to save face for the movement by suggesting that a superior race of beings could have created the first cell & then disappeared. Yes, he actually suggested Aliens were possibly responsible, but yet he call those who believe in God delusional?
Huh? If they were superior to us or God, then where did they go? & where did they come from in the first place? What did they make the cell from?
Very disappointing showing by Mr. Dawkins to say the least. It was almost sad to watch him reduced to intellectual cannon fodder by Ben Stein.
In any case, you need to ignore the flood of leftist reviews that are trying to slander the movie, & silence it. (You know, those leftist champions of free speech & the media.)
Yes, they want to silence Ben Stein, & anyone who they don’t agree with. The movie stands on it’s own, & I’d encourage anyone to go see it & make up your own mind, instead of listening to fascist liberals who will go as far as to blatantly lie about it, to convince people not to go.
I do however also encourage you to look around the web & read their venomous reviews. Ask yourself why they are so angry? Why so viscous? What are they so afraid of? If the movie is so ridiculous & pointless as they claim, then why are they spending their time defending Darwin & attacking Ben Stein’s “Expelled” so veraciously?
It’s because they want to pontificate to you about what’s suitable for your viewing, & tell you what you should watch. Didn’t Hitler burn books? Create a state run media? Try to control the knowledge & communication?
Go see the movie while you live in a country where you can make up your own mind. Because if you don’t? There will come a day where the right you didn’t exercise, becomes a right you’ve lost.
When I was a kid, (Not really all that long ago), it was not unusual for us to get a little bored in class, & then draw a picture of a little stick figure holding a gun, & shooting the proverbial “bad guy”. Our teachers then, whether they agreed or not, respected our first amendment right to express ourselves in any way we wanted to, as long as it wasn’t physically violent or disruptive. Now, if a child draws a picture of even just a gun, or even a squirt gun, you have fascist liberal teachers dragging children down to the principles office to suspend them.
That is nothing short of indoctrination into someone else’s political & social views, & these days if YOUR child doesn’t comply, they face punishments & sanctions.
Of course sane people know that a drawing of a gun, or a depiction of a violent act is not necessarily a bad thing, but rather for some kids a way to express & process what goes on in the world around them. I was one of those creative kids. As I was growing up, I was eventually in possession of real guns, & still do have real guns & ammunition, yet I’ve never even come close to shooting anyone.. Guns are no different than cars. If you point them at a person, & either pull the trigger or run them over, they may die. It’s that simple. Yet liberals try to demonize the possession of guns as they drive around in their deadly little silver boxes. Well like for instance Al Gore’s son, who was arrested in his Toyota Prius doing 100 mph, with pot smoke billowing out the windows. Clue: Pot smoke is bad for the environment, & even a Prius will cause pollution at 100 mph, but I digress..
The point is, children are being taught in public schools that guns are bad. Yet liberals leave cars alone, (even though they are one of the true leading killers of people in America & beyond) because they drive those themselves & at least at this stage, know better than to go there with the public. They are selectively wussifying our children, in order to indoctrinate them into their way of twisted thinking. Many schools are dropping playground activities like tag, dodge ball, ect.. because well.. “children could be hurt”, & even getting rid of grades claiming that the grading system only serves to damage their self confidence.
There’s a war INSIDE our country people, & it’s only going to get worse if we keep electing Democrats into office. That’s the bottom line. Democrat politics are flawed by always going with the flow of even the angriest & senseless whims of any mob of activists that happen to fall together.
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.”
“An empire is a despotism,” wrote Adams, “and an emperor is a despot, bound by no law or limitation but his own will.”
-John Adams
As you can see from things like Teachers Unions (for instance) Adams was right. They have no problem with imposing their own will on our children, & thus trying to cement their twisted form of government for our future into the minds of children. That’s why teacher’s unions hate homeschooling. They can’t get their grubby little ideologies into your kids heads if they can’t get to them. A Great Example Here. They do this by ensuring a liberal voting base through this devious form of systematic brainwashing. It’s vitally important for our survival as a nation, that you don’t let these people raise & wussify your children. After all, at some point these teachers actually have more time with them than YOU DO.
THAT fact, is some serious food for thought! ~Dan Lee
The following is an account of my SoCal college experiences…
During my first semester, I took a Political Science class and scored “flaming Liberal” on the entrance exam (I scored further left than anyone in the entire class). I also took a bunch of Sociology, Psychology, Science and Multi-cultural classes. In these subjects I was routinely told about the evils of America, Republicans and Christians. I was enlightened in my science classes about how God does not exist. I was informed that men are pigs (except possibly the progressive, sensitive, compliant ones that were bi-products of the feminist movement). I remember giggling in agreement when my professors talked about how archaic and ignorant Christians were and nodding in unison when they described how greedy and arrogant Republicans were. I would then bring this “superior intellectual knowledge” home to my high-school-sweetheart-turned-hubby Charlie, in hopes that I could sway him from his Conservative Christian views (oh yeah, our household was a barrel of monkeys during this time period). Charlie would ask me questions like, “Don’t you wonder why they aren’t offering counter points? What are they afraid of? What are they hiding?” I remember him so logically and lovingly providing the balance that my professors deprived me of. However, like so many naïve young college kids, I thought “how could my instructors, with all of their education and degrees, be wrong?” Class after class, semester after semester, I heard the same old stuff. But little by little, it didn’t feel so great to bob my head in unison. In fact, I secretly became ashamed. Even though I was a goody-two-shoes obsessed with my 4.0, I had always been somewhat of a rebel at heart. In jr. high and high school I was drawn to the “different” kids (for me it was the brainiac/skater/sci-fi/punk crowd). I really admired those that did not blindly follow the crowd, were willing to take a stand, stick-up for the underdog, etc. Suddenly, here I was in college, and somehow I had become part of the mass mob majority. I grew more and more skeptical, I began to see the importance of Charlie’s questions, and I wanted answers.
Really long story short… you can only be spoon fed a one-sided story for so long before (hopefully) you begin to question its validity. Out of my respect and admiration for my hubby, my need for balance, my love for the underdogs, etc. I started to do my own research. It is interesting, amazing, and life-altering the information that can be found outside of college. You might be familiar with some of my findings like: I learned that scientific theories (the ones trying to remove God) actually contradict with scientific laws – weird that my Science teachers never disclosed that FACT (for more lefty myths, see my blog: Lies from the Land of the Left). Anyway, some of you know my story from there… I am now a Conservative Christian living in SoCal – a REBEL once again! Woohoo! And… (just in case you didn’t know)… Ann Coulter and Jesus rock!!!
I realize that this was my personal experience. And, to be fair, the types of classes I took might partly explain why my professors were so biased: my BA major was in Liberal Arts (fyi: liberal meaning “the seven branches of medieval education”, not “Michael Moore”) with a minor in Sociology and my MA was in Education and Multicultural studies. As a side note, I do want to give a shout-out to my Calculus teacher and most of my grad school professors at Chapman University (private school, hellooo) for remaining fairly balanced – I now realize how truly courageous they were. I am now a public school teacher myself and I understand the enormous responsibility that comes with my profession. I know how students can blindly believe what they are told, so I must be as fair and balanced as possible. In my opinion, a lot of our kids are having a Liberal agenda shoved down their throats, and they are buying it hook, line and sinker. Unfortunately, I do not think my story is unique.
“Test everything. Hold on to the good.” 1 Thessalonians 5:21
