RE: This Fellow Rips Lee Stroebel A New Asshole
April 19, 2017 at 2:07 pm
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2017 at 2:07 pm by Simon Moon.)
(April 19, 2017 at 12:21 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote:(April 19, 2017 at 11:48 am)Jehanne Wrote: The movie still hasn't broken $10 million:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?pag...christ.htm
I suspect that its theater counter will take a nose-dive here this week; usually, this occurs on Thursday or Friday.
I recently heard an interview with Strobel. It's actually foing fairly well. The opening was smaller, only about 1100 theaters, and they are talking about adding about 500 more. It's getting excellent reviews.
It's getting decent reviews as a piece of movie making. Rotten Tomatoes has it rated a 77%.
As anything to do with reality, not so much.
I mean, seriously. One of Strobel's main interviewees, Craig Blomberg, member of the Denver Seminary, has to affirm and sign the following doctrinal statements every year:
“We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the inspired Word of God, inerrant in the original writings, complete as the revelation of God’s will for salvation, and the supreme and final authority in all matters to which they speak.”
Yeah, every honest investigative reporter (which Strobel is trying to portray himself as), actually looking for the truth, will always choose such an impartial source. [end sarcasm].
No investigative reporter with an ounce of intellectual honesty, will fail to interview at least one scholar with a dissenting opinion. Strobel does not interview a single one, in any of his books.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
