How can you hate someone who doesn't exist? - Josh Wheaton Can a moral revival happen where God is dead? The inexorable decay in moral conduct is evident and undeniable to any member of the cretin society. Only a fool or a fraudster would argue that the relativism ethics, which is the operative social prescription, is healthy human development for a harmonious culture. Society has gone mad. Look around and observe. Insanity in institutions and conflicts among personal interactions has become the norm. The basis of desirable stability and fair order are virtually non-existent. Upon this stage of discontent, humans are now viewed as the ultimate dispensable creatures. Eugenics is all the rage, as human life is treated with irreverence. NWO Overman is the Eupraxsophy of Transhumanism article makes the assertion. “All of Western Civilization is based upon the premise of "Natural Rights". The implication that Natural Law is an inescapable component of individual purpose and social conduct is central to a cosmology of a grand design. The pursuit of understanding does not have to adopt a deist revelation in order to advocate a rational limitation on the human being. However, a belief in a divine creator is the very foundation of our common heritage and traditional culture.” The conflict this affirmation brings to the sensibilities of the trendy set need not be supported with examples. Just look around. The fundamental crisis in faith is real. The popular culture is void of meaning and purpose. So it comes with a touch of hope that a movie entitled, God's Not Dead , has the courage to provide a philosophical inquiry in a subject that most social relativists avoid. Watch the trailer and get a feel for the screenplay. A short Plot Summary follows. Freshman university student Josh Wheaton attends a philosophy class, where the uncompromising Professor Radisson requires all students to submit a signed statement that the "God is dead" and never existed. When Josh refuses due to his own Christian beliefs, the Professor challenges him to defend his position that his God is real - which leads to a series of confrontational presentations between himself and the professor, with the class as jury. Josh's plans to go to law school depend on not failing this class. Josh's fellow Christian girlfriend urges him not to throw away his future with this meaningless action of defiance. At the same time, Pastor Dave and African missionary Jude attempt to leave town on a trip, but are hindered by curious incidents. Student Ayisha is at odds with her father's conservative Muslim religious principles. Hotshot businessman Mark acts cynically towards his mentally ill mother, while his famous leftist blogger girlfriend receives bad news from a doctor. - Written by ChazzMatt Inherent Autonomy could not exist if there is no God. The Politics of the Existential Experience poses the essential Christian existential assertion that faith in the belief of God is the substantive foundation and ingredient for a moral imperative. "For if God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it; and if he [or she] does exist it would be folly to attempt it." Demonstrating the existence or non-existence of God only produces reasons for belief, not the actual proof that God exists. Kierkegaard also claims, "... between God and his works there exists an absolute relationship: God is not a name but a concept " The relationship between man and God is a concept. A person with belief in God, cannot prove its existence through his or her own relationship with God. Many of the columns published on BREAKING ALL THE RULES project a need for a moral reawakening. Without the acceptance that the source of free will is based upon the creation of each human life, the massive confusion and social disintegration that is rapidly exploding will continue. In the Totalitarian Collectivism article, The American "TC" Saga - Part 3 - CHURCH , Fyodor Dostoyevsky observed, “When God is dead anything is possible.” This is the consequence that a rejection of God accepts. Indeed, the “anything possible” culture has produced a dehumanization of life. Chaos is not the same as madness. The amplified evil is not random, it is intentional because restraint upon malevolent action has been delinked from a final judgment. Many social radicals and social philosophers have attempted to build a moral system while being an atheist. The Solitary Purdah essay, Atheism to Secular Humanism and Objectivism deals with two such icons of religious deniers. The conclusion is germane. “If the history of civilized society founded upon institutional religion, is replete with suffering and carnage; by what strange twist of belief in the ethical egoism of Goldman’s nihilist collectivism and Rand’s objectivism, could possibly make life better? Individuals like Goldman and Rand are lost. They are solitary purdah pretentious intellectuals without the presence of God in their life. The screen curtain they erect around their egotism is a veritable veil surrounding their own lack of humanity.” All the hollow cries for social justice from non believers always fail to achieve results. The reason is clear. Their unauthentic ethical fantasy land has no genuine moral foundation. The hopeful message in the movie God’s Not Dead will fall on deaf ears for the hordes of self absorbed pseudo intellectuals, as portrayed and embodied in Professor Radisson. The absence in submission to God’s law and the rejection of Jesus’ Gospel and the Sermon on the Mount teachings is the most crucial denial of one’s own humanity. HOPE cannot exist outside faith that evil will ultimately be defeated. The current path has society destined for ruin. Since waking up politically is but a mere step towards 'Cosmic Consciousness' , the true awakening must be spiritual. By any normal gauge it would take a miracle for the American public to regain their moral compass. Yet, that is exactly what is possible if the nation humbles themselves and beg for mercy. Immoral politics will not fade away, but political corruption can be tamed if a revival of the soul repents and seeks God’s forgiveness. By now a substantial segment of our readership is turned off. So be it. It is uncomfortable to admit one’s own sins. It is even more difficult to accept responsibility for the evil one contributes to the sick world that the God is Dead culture has fostered. America's Spiritual Crisis by Erwin W. Lutzer writes. A National Revival Needed. There is reason to believe that only a national revival can pull us out of the ditch into which we have slid. I am convinced ­ as all of us must be ­ that every human resource is now inadequate and only the direct intervention of God can reverse our country's spiritual decay. If America will really be given another chance, at least some kingdoms of darkness will have to fall like dominoes. That can only happen if God chooses to show us the mercy we most assuredly do not deserve. There is Hope. Revival is possible as long as God is God. Jonathan Edwards, a leader during the First Great Awakening in America, argued that God grants light when the darkness is the greatest, and it was in just such times that the glorious periods of revival occurred in America's history. When there was disinterest in religion, gross immorality and rampant unbelief, God poured out His undeserved gracious blessing. This summary was written many years ago. The fact that such a prescription has not taken hold just means that the crisis is that much more acute. It should be evident that burying the Christian Trinity has released the forces of satanic demons that are busy in persecuting believers. When the existentialist philosopher Jean Paul Sartre rendered his famous quotation from his play, No Exit; “ Hell is other people ”, characters are in hell because they are trivial, pretentious people. This is Sartre’s satiric point: they are in hell because they are petty-bourgeois. Their concern for the world goes only as far as the extent to which the world services their needs. When it doesn’t adequately cater to their desires, they blame the world and the people in it – that is, they say that “hell is other people.” Professor Radisson is every bit the ostentatious atheist that makes up so much of the popular culture. He might share the same non-believer orientation that Sartre expounded during most of his life. However, in the final segment screen of God is Not Dead, Radisson dying from an auto accident, repents and seeks forgiveness. While according to his friend Pierre Victor , Sartre had a drastic change of mind about the existence of God and started gravitating toward Messianic Judaism. The point is that even the most hardened “true believer” when faced with death can seek atonement. In our case rejecting atheism for faith has been long settled. The judgment is still out if the American nation has the courage to rebuff the God is dead culture and return to our heritage as Christian believing people. Start with a moral revival, one person at a time and witness your faith. SARTRE – March 31, 2015