(August 26, 2010 at 3:48 pm)Entropist Wrote:(August 26, 2010 at 2:38 pm)leo-rcc Wrote: A evangelican Christian who goes by the name of ShockofGod made a fake video where he claims to demolish the Atheist Experience even though the video is a clear fabrication (I guess he thinks lying for Jesus is okay or something).
Hey it worked for Martin Luther: "What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church … a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them."
That sounds like it could have come from the movie, "Doubt," with Phillip Seymour Hoffman. To paraphrase:
Quote:In pursuit of the truth, one often has to take a step away from God.
The head nun in the movie, Meryl Streep, lied to the priest of the church (Hoffman) to get him to resign over allegations of an inappropriate relationship with a student at the school, much to the chagrin of Sister James, played by Amy Adams. The movie never specifies whether Hoffman's character was innocent or guilty. It only leaves hints, none of which are terribly conclusive. Thus, even the audience is left in doubt.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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