American Vision Combats "The God Who Wasn't There"
As I've mentioned before, my brother Joseph works in the Video Department at American Vision and has just produced an awesome touché to the popular documentary The God Who Wasn't There. It's a funny and not-so-funny commercial about modern and historical atheists and the moral implications of atheism. It presents a strong presuppositional apologetic against atheism in an entertaining way. Kudos to my bro Joe and the rest of the gang at American Vision! See the American Vision commercial by clicking here.
If you haven't heard about The God Who Wasn't There, you can see the despicable trailer for it by clicking here. The trailer gives a hint at how the documentary spins Christians as hate-mongers and attempts to discredit the historicity of Christ. American Vision also launched a website to address this horrible film.In the American Vision commercial, the video brilliantly uses a sweet-sounding "Barbie" voice narrator to contrast the evil of atheism. It's a well-made video that shows atheism for what it is. Hope you enjoy it.
Labels: Biblical Worldview and Philosophy, Christian Apologetics
posted by Nathaniel the Darnell @ 11:11 AM
5 Comments:
Great Job, Joe!
Excellently put together. I hope this gets passed around a lot.
~ In Christ, John.
Very clever. Thanks for the link.
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John Calvin was a nice guy too. As a matter of fact he cared so much about society that he burned many people to the state. How christ like is that?
What are you afraid of Nathaniel? Some woman might out smart you and the rest of you reformed patriarcal control artists?
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John Calvin never burned a person at the the "state" or even at the "stake" (if that's what you meant). That misconception is due to a historical inaccuracy. John Calvin taught separation of church and state, and since he was an authority of the local church in Geneva, not the state, he had no jurisdiction to sentence anyone to capital punishment.
In the Institutes of the Christian Religion, Calvin wrote that he believed church discipline should "be altogether distinct from the power of the sword [the power of civil government]." (See Romans 13.) Institutes, Henry Beveridge, trans., Book IV, Chap. XI, § 5 (Grand Rapids: Wm. B.Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1994).
Calvin explained, "As the magistrate ought by punishment and physical restraint to cleanse the church of offenses, so the minister of the Word should help the magistrate in order that fewer may sin. Their responsibilities should be so joined that each helps rather than impedes the other." The Emergence of Liberty in the Modern World: The Influence of John Calvin on Five Governments from the 16th Through 18th Centuries (Phillipsburg, New Jersey: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1992), 15, quoting a letter Calvin wrote on October 24, 1538.
In fact, John Calvin prayed and implored heretical men such as Michael Servetus to repent of their heresy, but he had no hand in Servetus' death.
"I desire," said Calvin, "that the severity of the punishment [of Servetus] should be remitted." "We endeavored to commute the kind of death, but in vain." "By wishing to mitigate the severity of the punishment," says Farel to Calvin, "you discharge the office of a friend towards your greatest enemy." "That Calvin was the instigator of the magistrates that Servetus might be burned," says Turritine, "historians neither anywhere affirm, nor does it appear from any considerations. Nay, it is certain, that he, with the college of pastors, dissuaded from that kind of punishment." See Fox's Book of Martyr's, Chapter 13.
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