4.19.2008

EXPELLED!

Sam and I just went and saw the movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed by Ben Stein. It was pretty good although not excellent. But the entire theme of intolerance (although this word was never used) for god PLUS science was excellently displayed. It reminded me of the article that Dr. Cashin told his class about (several times) written by a guy in the UK saying that if Christians (or the Christian worldview) keeps getting pushed as being unacceptable it will simply prove that there is indeed something very acceptable about it! I wish Stein would have defined evolution, intelligent design, and creationism a little bit more; of course, I suppose that is the reason for all this debate in the first place. I mean, what is science? When Stein was interviewing the evolutionist (mainly atheists) I would always want to yell, "Why no god? Why does science mean there cannot be any god?" Because that's silly. But I cried. Once for this poor old atheist man that claimed he didn't care that there was no god and that he would be nothing after he died. In fact, he said he would commit suicide if he was ill because that would simply end his existence. Stein says that after that interview this man found out he had a brain tumor. My crying over him was one of fierce anger more than anything. I was angry at the powers of darkness. I even questioned the Creator, my God, asking why He allowed such a horrible untruth to suck the life out of people. The other time I cried was when Richard Dawkins (one of the big atheists of our time) read an excerpt from his book of his rendition of the God of the Old Testament: “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” I am fuming with anger right now!!!!!!! I want to go through every book store in Columbia and buy all of these books and go to the Pointe and burn them. I was actually planning on doing this and then I realized that my money would go to profit them so maybe I won't do that. ...As the Creator has been revealing Himself to me as of late especially through the words of Isaiah - God, the God, the One True God is beautiful, majestic, holy, eternally loving, overwhelmingly gracious, longs for us to be joyful and happy, amazing, and just freaking awesome. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!


Days Of Elijah

These are the days of Elijah,Declaring the word of the Lord:And these are the days of Your servant Moses,Righteousness being restored.And though these are days of great trial,Of famine and darkness and sword,Still, we are the voice in the desert crying'Prepare ye the way of the Lord!'

Behold He comes riding on the clouds,Shining like the sun at the trumpet call;Lift your voice, it's the year of jubilee,And out of Zion's hill salvation comes.

These are the days of Ezekiel,The dry bones becoming as flesh;And these are the days of Your servant David,Rebuilding a temple of praise.These are the days of the harvest,The fields are as white in Your world,And we are the labourers in Your vineyard,Declaring the word of the Lord!

There's no God like Jehovah.There's no God like Jehovah!

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

WOW Katie!! Your tears for the lost are definitely a call to pray for these atheistic scientists! Just think, once they were bright-eyed beautiful little children discovering God's creation, and somehow their hearts hardened toward the Lover of their souls. I pray that God will be merciful to reveal Himself to them. I remember reading the story of a super- intellectual doctor who was raised in an atheistic home. But despite all, it was humble ,Jesus- loving patients, who were not afraid to die, who spoke volumes to his fears and empty heart despite his knowledge. He came to faith through an uneducated ,yet Christ-loving person. God will give a witness of Himself. Love your passion! Laurie B.