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.
“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
*Preface: I believe in an all knowing, almighty, loving God. Belief in God automatically asserts a belief in miracles, so it’s logical to conclude that an omnipotent Creator would be able to send us a completely accurate history/instruction book - an account of His action in the world and purpose with all creation. I challenge you to find your purpose, to study the different “holy texts” of the world. You will find that the Bible stands alone as God’s word to man - and that He left us some pretty important warnings…*
The apostle John announced that there will come a day when a one world leader will rise to power. He will be the embodiment of evil, one who is empowered and directed by the Devil himself. This will be the Antichrist.
When you look up “anti” in Webster’s it states: against, opposite, instead. We will know the doctrine of the Antichrist because it will go against the Bible and teach the opposite of Scripture. The “spirit of the Antichrist” and his “One World Religion” are already here, its hooks are deep and its lies are spreading. The most damaging deception concerns the topic of supreme importance – salvation.
Pimp-Devil-Deception 1: “There are many roads that lead to heaven.”
Bible answer: “You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The road to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way.” The Bible makes it clear that Jesus is that narrow gate. It says that by rejecting Jesus, you are rejecting truth, salvation and God. Jesus said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well.” John 14:6-7. Please note that Jesus did not say “I am one of the ways” he said “I am the way”. Acts 16:30 asks: “What must I do to be saved?”. In the next verse Paul gives one answer: “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved”.
Pimp-Devil-Deception 2: “You can earn heaven through good works.”
Bible answer: “For it is by grace you are saved, through faith — not by works, so that no one can boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9. We are saved by the grace of God, through our faith in Jesus Christ. “Man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.” Romans 3:28. Please consider this: were it possible to be “good enough” we wouldn’t need a Savior (Jesus’ death would be in vain). Instead we find: “For there is not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin.” Ecclesiastes 7:20. “It is by the name of Jesus Christ…Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:10-12
Jesus warned: “I have come in my father’s name and you did not accept me. Another will come in his own name and you will accept him.” John 5:43. He was speaking about the deception that would come upon unbelievers – that those who reject Him will instead accept the father of lies. “Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the Antichrist—he denies the Father and the Son.” 1 John 2:22.
This “Great Delusion” is well under way. We can see it all around us… as it says in 2 Timothy 4:3-4 “For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the Truth and turn aside to myths.” God gave us Truth, but He also gave us free will. We can choose to follow His sound doctrine or we can choose to make up our own – in essence “play god” - which happens to be Satan’s first lie: that we could be gods (Genesis 3:5).
Ecumenicalism, existentialism, Darwinism, deconstructionism, moral relativism, terrorism, totalitarianism (and its kin: liberal fascism, socialism, communism)… all sorts of evil-isms are working hand in hand to distract you from the Truth. Many of their followers will unite under the master deceiver, the father of lies, the “lawless one”: 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10 “The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the Truth and so be saved.” Do you love the Truth? Don’t accept any substitutes - the alternatives are lies from the ultimate Pimp Daddy himself.
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
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
That’s it. One little sentence. You will not find the words “separation of church and state” anywhere in the Constitution. The desire of our Founding Fathers was to prevent any single denomination (ie: only Catholic, only Lutheran, only Baptist, etc.) from ruling our nation - but they never intended for Christianity and Christian principles be removed from public affairs.
According to John Jay, the original Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court – and one of the three men most responsible for our Constitution: “Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty – as well as the privilege and interest – of our CHRISTIAN NATION to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.”
Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the first Founder to call for free public schools, stated: “The only foundation for a useful education is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.”
John Quincy Adams stressed that Christian principles and the American civil government were tied together in what he called an “indissoluble bond”. However, we are seeing that bond being chipped away left and right. Beginning with, and striking at the heart of our country, two court decisions in 1962 and 1963, removing prayer and Bible from public education.
In his book, “America: To Pray Or Not to Pray?” David Barton gives charts, tables and graphs to show exactly how fast and how far our country has declined since the 1962/63 court rulings. It is VERY important to keep in mind that the numbers were stable prior to 1962 and that these stats are per capita. Here are some of the findings:
*Divorce rates are up 120% (source: National Center for Health Statistics, Vital Statistics)
*Suicide rates have increased 253% (source: National Center for Health Statistics, Vital Statistics)
*Child abuse is up 345% (source: Statistical Abstracts of the United States)
*Cases of sexually transmitted diseases among 10-14 year olds have increased by almost 400% (source: Center for Disease Control)
*Teen pregnancies have increased over 400% (source: Department of Health and Human Services)
*Violent crime is up 660% (source: Statistical Abstracts of the United States, and the Department of Commerce, Census Bureau).
*Premarital sexual activity among 15 year olds alone has increased almost 1000% (source: Family Planning Perspectives)
*Illegal drug use has increased 1,375% (source: Statistical Abstracts of the United States)
By uprooting God from our classrooms, from our government, we are removing history, hope and truth. Our nation needs to recognize what was acknowledged by our Founding Fathers, and expressed so well by Abraham Lincoln: “The truth announced in the Holy Scripture, and proven by all history is that: ‘Only those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord’ “.
“If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, we will become a nation gone under.” ~Ronald Reagan
