Expelled!!!March 27th, 2008 by Todd JohnsonThere is a movie coming to theaters in mid-April called Expelled! The movie is a documentary that is hosted and narrated by Ben Stein (Student, Scholar, teacher, presidential speech-writer, actor & comedian). Watch the trailer and you’ll understand why I’ll be first in line to see it. If you have a high school or college student, this is going to be a MUST SEE for you AND them! Tell your friends… 21 Responses to “Expelled!!!”Leave a Reply |
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Wow, This looks like it’s going to be great.
I’m excited to see it as well. this has been a heated
discussion, and I’m looking forward to see how
it’s done. Stein has a brilliant mind,and being
Jewish I’m sure he was raised with a stong belief
in God. It’s great to see a man in his position
willing to make something like this, knowing full
well the backlash he’s going to recieve.
Thanks,
John
I think this is one of the biggest issues facing are day especially as a parent.For years we’ve been taught that evolution is true and even christians have bought into this lie. But what christians don’t seem to realize is that if evolution was true then throw out what God has said about creation.And if we can’t beileve what God said about creation why on earth would we believe what he says about the condition of man,salvation,or anything.Evolutionists have been undermining God and His word for years and they seem to know what’s at stake.We need to wake up and stand for the truth of Gods Word.Because the consequences are eternal and are children are being indoctrinated with this purposeless theory(lie).
Thank you! The movie appears to point us toward the need to think. The helmet of salvation, after all, is our Lord’s means of protecting our mind. With it firmly in place I say take up the sword of the Spirit, go, watch, and…pray.
Hey Todd – This actually looks really good and reiterates so much of what I have seen in my last few years of college. I remember talking to one of my professors a couple of years back who had a more conservative mind frame – she told me on the down low that she would never voice her opinions with her colleagues because she would be afraid of losing her job. In one of my science classes we were studying the human body and my teacher was off to the side at one point in class and I said to him “I don’t know what you believe, but how could anyone believe there isn’t a God after learning the extreme perfection the body has to follow in order to survive.” He looked at me and said, “The more I learn, the more I have to believe there is a God.” And this is a guy with his M.D. who is slowly realizing that there would have to be a perfect Creator after all he has seen. Another professor in my earth science class said when we were studying astronomy and it had all come down to the Big Bang theory: “And we choose to believe this, because if we question this we have to question everything.” I was like, HELLO – you have to have just as much faith, if not more, to believe in a world not created by God. Sorry for the long post, but I just think this is SUCH a huge issue in secular schools. The people sitting in these seats under the “wise of the world” are going to be told history and facts under that prof’s agenda. Not that we aren’t to be a light out there in the world – but to know how imperative it is to be ready for it, and how important it is to be strong in your faith.
Kinda funny seeing Ben Stein in this light. He cracks me up. Seriously though, what an issue to confront head on by someone in the public eye. Like Tom said, it IS indoctrination! If we just float in the lazy stream of this world and do nothing to bring our own world views into right perspective of Gods word then our kids will pay the price. I cant even tell the ways natural selection and evolutionary theory sculpted the way I thought about life pre conversion. Oh the magnificent walls that came down when someone sat down with me and explained rationally how the bible explained creation more accurately then the ideas that my teachers crammed down my throat in high school.
Rebecca – Good stuff! Thank you for sharing from some of your classroom experience. I have to believe that for Ben Stein to put his reputation and career on the line like this, the events you’ve described must be everywhere. I do hope that God uses this to bring fresh courage to many to question the claims of Darwinian Evolutionists. Maybe even bring some closet Creationists out as well.
See you at the movies!
Todd
Having graduated from U.C. Davis and taken “religious studies” my senior year, I can say without flinching that christian persecution is alive and well in our education system. It was then, 25 years ago, and is without a doubt even more pervasive today. I listen to what my son and daughter tell me about the slant placed on topics such as science, history and english by their teachers at both Magnolia and BRHS, and it is almost infuriating at moments. My daughter has been ridiculed and chastized since the beginning of the school year by her english teacher, which all began after an essay she wrote about herself and her christian beliefs. When I asked that she be removed from that class and given a different teacher the response was that they cannot give students and/or parents preference on teachers. I understand why…they fear the teachers propogating anti-christian rhetoric might not have a full class, and their message of paganism might go unheard without an ample audience of easily influenced adolesents. My son tells me of the discussion he attempts to have with his science teacher when he feels like challenging the unfounded faith-based claims of Darwinism, and how the teacher would rather shut him down and belittle him in front of the class than engage in intellectual discourse. The bottom line is this; if WE do not stand for what we believe and what is right, we, our children and our society as a whole will continue to fall further into moral bankruptcy and liberally dictated and legislated socialism. Marx claimed that to control a society the government need only control a few base societal needs including; the media, mobility (transportation), income dispensation (via welfare based programs & taxation) and most importantly education….their primary means of advancing Darwinist indoctrination. I will definitely see this movie, I only wish I could somehow trick some of the liberals out there that I know into coming with me…they need to see it even MORE than we do.
BTW: Thanks for the Blog Todd…very cool. I’ll definitely be back for more discussion.
If anyone is ever in the central Kentucky area or southern Ohio they should check out the Creation Museum, the director of the place is absolutely brilliant. He is a former Mayo Clinic Dr (i.e. really really smart dude). I was able to hear him speak at the University of Kentucky and was extraordinarily impressed. Unfortunately the lecture turned into a heated debate between the biology teachers. Anyhow if you like the topic of creationism and are in the area I for sure recommend the museum.
Thanks for the tip Ben. Sounds like a great place and a good man.
Todd
Thanks for posting this Todd,
I did get the sample DVD and am very excited. It is very tastefully and well done.
You might be first in line to see it, and I will be second, lol.
Here is a review of “EXPELLED” from Christian Post
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20080418/32002_ %5C%27Expelled%5C%27_Set_to_Release_Amid_Wave_of_Attacks.htm
It seems more lately that I have been praying along the lines of…LORD expose the lies and show them for what they are. We need to pray with great detail and we must come clean.
1Peter 5:6-11
You can email Ben Stein with words of support and encouragement.
BenStein99@aol.com
Hi Todd,
You may already be aware, but Expelled is now showing at Sutton Cinemas in Grass Valley!
Melanie,
Yes, it wasn’t planned to play in GV but it is. It is also playing in Roseville at UA Olympus Pointe. I saw the movie on opening night and it lived up to expectations. Ben saved the best for last… an interview with renowned atheist Richard Dawkins who confessed that there might be intelligent design behind all that we see, but it is more likely that our designer is an alien and not God. UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And we have faith?!
When we saw the film, my husband and I were seated behind a man who had to be moved from his wheelchair and placed into a theater seat by his friend. In order to do this, his friend put his arms around the crippled man in a big hug, lifted him up, and gently lowered him into the theater seat. A simple “Thank you” and “You’re welcome” passed between them. My chest still aches because when the movie got to Ben’s tour of the Nazi hospital, the presence of crippled man in the seat in front of us became that much more precious.
ahem… using this old archived thread to test my new avatar picture… sorry Todd I know you’ll be the only one seeing this… hope it works… lade da da
dang it… didn’t work
and now?
now?
hopefully last time
please don’t hate me Todd
last try… if no good I quit