The Film God 's Not Dead

Lastly, I will now discuss the emotional, mental, and spiritual reactions I personally had about the movie. I felt very saddened over the loss of Graham’s wife because I could not even begin to know how awful it would be to lose a spouse. I also found it very sad to watch the children deal with the loss of their mother. The moment at the dinner

God is dead. There is no reason to believe otherwise. The concept of God used to be something, mean something. Any significance that a Higher Being used to hold has now vanished without a trace. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche famously declared “God is dead.

“God is Dead” is what one College professor made is philosophy class write down on a piece of paper on the first day of his class in a public university. Most students did it for they were promised an “A” in the course, but if they did not write down the statement they were guaranteed an “F” in the class. A Christian student in the class, who strongly believed in God, argued against his professor telling him how God is not dead. This scenario was made into a popular movie called “God Not’s Dead” that came out in 2014. More situations like this are popping up all over colleges in America,which raises the question should educators be able to voice their personal opinions onto their students. College professors, especially in a public education system should not reflect their personal opinions onto the student population for any political, religious, and personal views..

It is interesting to view religion as the most visible consistency in the novel when the main character, Grant Wiggins, is himself an atheist. Although he himself does not believe in things such as heaven or hell he is still impacted upon by the community around him. Grant, an educated man,

The next three chapters, Chapters Seven, Eight, and Nine, cover the atheist and what manners of atheist there are and how Christians should interact with them. Chapter Seven apprises the reader on the different flavors of atheists. There are three different kinds of atheist people will come across. There are those who are angry at a God they don’t believe exist, so they tend to be more hostile towards religion. There are atheists who are not necessarily neutral, but don’t have an aggressive insolence towards religion. The last group are those who identify as an atheist because they are simply unaware of the evidence of God. Chapter Eight is about how science is not actually against theology, but instead it actually needs theology and is against atheism. It also shows the historical evidence of Jesus, a little bit on the gnostic gospels and what they really are, and miracles and the circular logic of atheist trying to shoot miracles down. The author in Chapter Nine informs the reader on how to interact with our atheist friends. Like in the earlier chapters, Cawley gives micro practices and meso practices. The micro practice in this chapter is question flipping. This is basically the practice of turning fractious questions into delightful answers, and instead of answering straight forward, its beating around the bush.

“God is dead” this is a quote that was said by John Proctor, a character in “The Crucible” when he was in court testifying that he was not the devil. John Proctor is a middle aged man who is an outcast and doesn't go to church. He had an affair with his wife Elizabeth and Abigail wants him all to herself and she'll do anything to get rid of Elizabeth. John has a bad reputation for not going to church, plowing on Sundays, and not having all of his kids baptised. John and I have a few character traits in common such as we are both outcast, independent, and loyal.

In the article, “Is Your God Dead?,” George Yancy makes a compelling argument on the idea of social activism. The argument proposed by Yancy in his article is influenced by the negative remarks human beings have made with each other based on gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation. There is a sense of discouragement being made among each other because we do not like to be view alike. Yet, we have been told by religious figures that everyone is made by the image of Jesus Christ. Yancy is trying to achieve realization in his article. In doing so, Yancy mentions various examples of unholy actions distributed by people. Along with that, Yancy correlates his argument with Heschel’s article on “How dare we come before God with our prayers when we commit atrocities against the one image we have of the divine: human beings?,” in order to further emphasize the key concepts of religious

faith, which changes his and the reader’s perception of religion for the remainder of the book.

We all struggle. We all experience tragedy at some point in our limited time on earth, but some of us experience more than others do. Yet, those who do experience tragedy cannot comprehend the benefits or blessings that may follow. A quote from the book, Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder sums up what tragedy feels like “You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean and we have to keep swimming.” (Kidder, 2009, p. 216) The ocean is so deep and so wide and hardships often feel the same way. You do not want to drown, and once you are in the middle you have no choice but to swim out. That is exactly what Deogratias Niyizonkiza did. Through his own strength and hope, along with the grace of God,

The film, The Brainwashing of My Dad, is a documentary released in 2016, directed by Jen Senko. It follows Frank Senko, Jen Senko’s father, and his transformation from a rather open-minded liberal, to a bitter and angry conservative, as described by close family and friends, after beginning to listen to talk radio. Topics such as the media’s influence on the audience and its ability to sway opinions are further examined and scrutinized in this documentary, mainly, right-wing media. A liberal point of view is shown to be advocated throughout the film as conservative media is continuously criticized for its negative effects and misleading content. The film also analyzes persuasion techniques employed by the media, suggesting that the news is

The unique novel and film The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks is a written by a man who knows how people feel and think as well as how they act once they face a personal tragedy. In 1997 an accident took place involving a bus driver who was driving the kids to school. Throughout the book and the movie a lawyer goes to each family and convinces them that it was no accident. Mitchell Stephens is the lawyer and what he does is comes to the town where everyone consider each other like family and tells them to go against one another so he can get to the bottom and give the town answers. The book was published in 1991 by Atom Egoyan and Russell Banks however the movie was published in 1997 by Atom Egoyan. The authors

Abraham Lincoln states, “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.” A significant concept to grasp from this quote is that no matter what religion morality and hope is its primary facet. Walter Miller, the author of A Canticle for Leibowitz, views on religion are rather analogous to this declaration.

This is further relevant then in the graveyard scene; the first scene, of the last act is unexpectedly takes place in a graveyard, where a gravedigger and his assistant are discovered at work. From their conversation it appears that a grave is being prepared for one who has taken her own life, and this leads to various comic and witty observations. The first gravedigger does his best to appear an able theorist and displays much wisdom, asking his companion comical questions in the form of riddles, and trying altogether to give himself the perception of superior knowledge. But with the comical words come a problem with Christianity, in the cemetery the two gravediggers argue whether the body to be put in the grave they're digging should receive a Christian

The movie "Alive" is a shocking true story of an Uruguayan Rugby Team that crashed their plane in the middle of the Andes mountains. The Uruguayan plane crash carrying 45 passengers to Chile unfortunately resulted only with the survival of 16 students. Through a traumatic shocking experience, the movie reenacts the event of the crash. This movie demonstrates various examples of the importance of psychological and physiological needs in our daily lives. It also outlines how the survivors had to accomplish particular essential needs in order to ensure their physiological and psychological health. The movie "Alive" is a fascinating story that demonstrates heroism and faith through a team mainly consisted of teenage

Reproduced, with permission, from THE FUTURIST, Published by the World Future Society, 7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 450, Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote a fictional account of a madman who went about the town proclaiming that "God is dead." Nietzsche's story is illustrative of a wave of atheism that spread through the intellectual circles of Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but that never caught on in society at large. The idea of the divine demise, however, did not die: A movement by theologians resurrected Nietzsche's thesis in the 1960s, amidst the other forms of radical thinking that characterized that decade.