The Duke and the review he posted are actually correct. Here's one version of the chain e-mail, which is where God Is Not Dead got the "inspiration" for its story:
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And here are some parodies:
(These are meant to be humorous and not intended as an attack on anyone's faith, just mocking the chain e-mail.)
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[Show spoiler]A liberal muslim homosexual ACLU lawyer professor and abortion doctor was teaching a class on Karl Marx, known atheist
”Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Marx and accept that he was the most highly-evolved being the world has ever known, even greater than Jesus Christ!”
At this moment, a brave, patriotic, pro-life Navy SEAL champion who had served 1500 tours of duty and understood the necessity of war and fully supported all military decision made by the United States stood up and held up a rock.
”How old is this rock, pinhead?”
The arrogant professor smirked quite Jewishly and smugly replied “4.6 billion years, you stupid Christian”
”Wrong. It’s been 5,000 years since God created it. If it was 4.6 billion years old and evolution, as you say, is real… then it should be an animal now”
The professor was visibly shaken, and dropped his chalk and copy of Origin of the Species. He stormed out of the room crying those liberal crocodile tears. The same tears liberals cry for the “poor” (who today live in such luxury that most own refrigerators) when they jealously try to claw justly earned wealth from the deserving job creators. There is no doubt that at this point our professor, DeShawn Washington, wished he had pulled himself up by his bootstraps and become more than a sophist liberal professor. He wished so much that he had a gun to shoot himself from embarrassment, but he himself had petitioned against them!
The students applauded and all registered Republican that day and accepted Jesus as their lord and savior. An eagle named “Small Government” flew into the room and perched atop the American Flag and shed a tear on the chalk. The pledge of allegiance was read several times, and God himself showed up and enacted a flat tax rate across the country.
The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. He died of the gay plague AIDS and was tossed into the lake of fire for all eternity.
Semper Fi.
p.s. close the borders
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[Show spoiler]A United States Marine was attending some college courses between assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. One of the courses had a professor who was a vowed atheist and a member of the ACLU.
One day the professor shocked the class when he came in. He looked to the ceiling and flatly stated, “God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I’ll give you exactly 15 minutes.” The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop.
Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, “Here I am God. I’m still waiting.” It got down to the last couple of minutes when the Marine got out of his chair, went up to the professor, and lifted up his arm to strike him.
At that moment the professor was transformed into a 7-foot grizzly, wreathed in a halo of holy fire. The bear spoke: “Blasphemer thou art, thou thinkst to take the place of God? Those who deny me face eternal fire, but you who knows my work and yet commits the sin of Satan I curse a hundred times over!” The Marine went back to his seat and sat there, silently picking at his boils. Then Richard Dawkins burst into the room, wielding a copy of The Selfish Gene and crying “Leave that boy alone, you pathetic atavism!” As the holy bear whirled around, terrible light flashing in its eyes, Dawkins shed his mortal form, raised each of his seven horned heads, and hissed. “It’ssss me you want!” Then the Lord and the Antichrist joined in the final battle.
The other students were shocked and stunned and sat there looking on in silence.
God’s Not Dead is a fictional Christian movie. However, there is a huge amount of references to actual real life court cases in the United States where Christians have been persecuted. Some of the fictional characters in the God’s Not Dead movie are similar to real life stories of people that have experienced persecution for their Christian faith. The God’s Not Dead movie is not a politically correct movie and it shows a former Muslim being persecuted for her conversion to Christianity in the United States. For example, the conservative Muslim father who follows the teachings of the Quran in the God’s Not Dead movie beats his Christian daughter and disowns her by forcing her to leave home (secular movies in general would never show such a scene since it would be offensive to some Muslims who have a more liberal view of the Quran). This fictional persecution in the God’s Not Dead movie is very mild compared to the reality of what happens sometimes in the United States when a Muslim converts to Christianity. In the United States and other parts of the world there have been honor killings by Muslim fathers which has resulted in daughters being murdered because they converted to Christianity. All one needs to do is google “honor killing” or similar searches and they will find literally hundreds of different cases.
Yes, sadly too often some parents become unreasonable and even take extreme measures when their children do not follow their religious beliefs, not understanding we all have Free Will and must make our own decisions and live our own lives. Thanks for pointing that out. And here are some other examples:
Ronnie Paris:
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Ronnie Pariswas a three-year-old boy who lived for only 1147 days with his parents in Tampa, Florida. He died due to brain injuries stemming from severe abuse at the hands of his father, who thought the child would turn out to be gay. Family friend Sheldon Bostick, who attended Bible study with the Paris family, testified that Ronnie Paris, Sr., "slap-boxed" with his son because "He didn't want him to be a sissy".
Just one month after filming an "It Gets Better" video in support of LGBT youth, 19 year-old Eric James Borges took his own life. In his video Borges spoke frankly of being tormented throughout his adolescence and young adulthood in his video. "I was physically, mentally, emotionally and verbally assaulted on a day-to-day basis for my perceived sexual orientation," he said. "My name was not Eric, but '******'." Borges' "extremely religious" parents performed an exorcism on him, trying to "cure" him. When that failed they kicked their him out of their home and shunned him.
Borges parents did not attend his memorial service, he was already dead to them.
I personally have always believed in the Truth as presented in the Bible and have always felt the strong presence of Jehovah God and Jesus in my life, even as a child. I have always believed the prophesies in the Bible, and that there will be paradise on earth in which everyone will live in peace and love with no war, sickness and death, and that the dead will be resurrected due to Jehovah’s justice and fairness. I have always lived my life with all this in view, and have never sought a worldly, secular career or pathway. Becoming one of Jehovah’s Witness was the obvious next step for me. I need to move forwards towards the goal of everlasting life, and to this end I deeply regret that I must terminate our relationship whilst you remain disfellowshipped.
That's one thing I wish God's Not Dead would have done a better job of - showing that we should have respect and compassion for those who are different and/or think differently then us. The Muslim girl and, to a lessor extent, the Christian girlfriend of the atheist professor were the only examples.
This God’s Not Dead movie is a low budget Christian movie from Pure Flix Entertainment. The budget for this movie was only 2 million dollars, however box office sells were over 62.6 million dollars since many in the Christian community loved this movie. In addition, the Dove foundation awarded this movie 5 Doves for a faith friendly movie. Rated PG.
I enjoyed the fictional God’s Not Dead movie that is similar to some real life persecutions that Christians experience in the modern 21st Century. It was very interesting to watch the fictional character Josh defend his faith when his faith is attacked by an atheist Philosophy professor. I would have enjoyed this God’s Not Dead movie even more if Josh Wheaton would have used both the foundational history found in Genesis and science to defend his faith. Instead, Josh decides to use popular secular theories like billions of years and the big bang to try to defend the existence of God.
God’s Not Dead is Pure Flix Entertainments very first Blu-ray/DVD combo pack. The purpose of a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack is that it allows families to play the lower quality 480i DVD version of the movie in every room, since some families have not upgraded all their DVD players to Blu-ray players yet. For those families that have 100% Blu-ray players there is no reason to even use the 480i DVD disc, since the exact same movie with all the bonus features also exists on the 1080P Blu-ray disc. The God’s Not Dead 480i DVD disc uses a total of 7.85GB on the 8.5GB dual layer disc. The God’s Not Dead 1080P Blu-ray disc uses 20.6GB of space on the 25GB single layer Blu-ray disc.
Video quality
The 20.6GB single layer 1080P Blu-ray image of God’s Not Dead uses the MPEG-4/AVC codec at around 25Mbps for some scenes. In addition, the main menu and all the extra features on this Blu-ray disc is 1080P quality while using the MPEG-4/AVC codec. God’s Not Dead was shot on a RED ONE camera using a Redcode RAW 4.5K source format. Digital Intermediate was 2K. The 1920 x 1080P resolution on the Blu-ray had some very nice natural detail with excellent color accuracy. Overall I was happy with the excellent picture quality. A dual layer 50GB Blu-ray disc using a higher bit rate MPEG-4/AVC encode in theory would have looked even better. English SDH and Spanish SDH subtitles is a feature on this Blu-ray disc for those that want or need it.
Audio quality
I was disappointed that Pure Flix Entertainment does not offer a lossless soundtrack for this Blu-ray release. 99.9% of secular Blu-ray movie releases receive a lossless soundtrack. Pure Flix Entertainment should have taken their 5.1 PCM studio master sound mix and ported it over to the Blu-ray using either 5.1 PCM, 5.1 DTS-HD Master audio, or 5.1 Dolby TrueHD. Instead, Pure Flix Entertainment ported over the exact same lossy 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtrack that is located on the DVD disc. I hope that future Pure Flix Entertainment Blu-ray titles start using a lossless soundtrack.
The English 5.1 Dolby Digital (448kbps) lossy soundtrack and the Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital (448kbps) lossy soundtrack sounded fairly good. These are true 5.1 audio mixes with active subwoofer activity and some surround sound mixes once and a while. I have heard better surround sound mixes, however overall the God's Not Dead mix was ok with dialog easy to understand coming from the center channel.
Bonus Features
I enjoyed the Bonus Features on the God’s Not Dead Blu-ray. My only complaint is that no audio commentary track was created for this movie. Pure Flix Entertainment appears to be moving away from audio commentaries on some of their more recent Blu-ray releases. It takes time and it costs more money to create an audio commentary track. All the extra features for the God’s Not Dead Blu-ray uses 1080P resolution and MPEG-4/AVC codec. Most of the trailers use 5.1 Dolby Digital (448kbps). All the rest of the extra features uses English 2.0 Dolby Digital (192kbps). Behind the Scenes lasts 8 minutes and 44 seconds. Chasing The Sun official music video by Safe Haven lasts 3 minutes and 41 seconds. What I Know music video by Tricia Brock lasts 4 minutes and 3 seconds. Students Rights On University Campuses lasts 4 minutes and 40 seconds. Trailers:Upcoming releases by Pure Flix: God’s Not Dead Theatrical Trailer, Believe, Redeemed, Revelation Road: Black Rider, and Mickey Matson and the Pirates Code.
Conclusion
God’s Not Dead is a very interesting fictional Christian movie. Some of the persecution of Christians in the movie is similar to persecution that some Christians have experienced in real life. This movie has a strong Gospel message and is very enjoyable among evangelical Christians.Some atheists might also like this movie since the movie is a big debate between a Christian student and an atheist professor.
Think I'll skip this one.
After watching the trailer and reading about the contents of the film it is kinda hard to believe the glowing review Martin Liebman gave it.
The God’s Not Dead Revisited article by the Answers in Genesis organization was an interesting read.
The following are select quotes from the August 5th 2014 article
“As I stated in the introduction, the movie God’s Not Dead presents many commendable ideas and actions.However, it is not free from error. And as I have demonstrated above, those errors are somewhat subtle. I can understand how someone watching the movie could misunderstand the nature of the arguments being made, especially if you are already thinking from a biblical creation perspective as you enter the experience.”
“Any question about whether the intent was to promote the big bang and millions of years in the movie were laid to rest by the book’s explanation.”
The coming soon Pure Flix Entertainment Revelation Road 3: The Black Rider was canceled on the Blu-ray format due to a lack of demand. Click the following link for more detailed information.
Better then a lot of the past films in this genre!!!
I noticed that as well; it was far less "in-your-face" than something like the original "Left Behind" trilogy, which I felt turned more people away. Making a high-quality movie with a positive theological message is very difficult, but this one seems to have pulled it off.
God’s Not Dead II is coming to theaters Easter 2016 according to Pure Flix Entertainments latest movie catalog.
It appears that for the year 2015 there might be only one Pure Flix Entertainment movie released on the Blu-ray format. Pure Flix Entertainemnt now has their streaming service up and running which decreases the demand for Blu-ray releases.
I just created a thread for Do You Believe with a brief user review.
Well i enjoyed 90% of the film, until the last 10 mins, i don't know, just having the professor renouncing his atheism before he died and then having two ministers standing over his body smiling saying it's a joyous occasion just didn't sit right with me at all!
Well, I finally got around to buying the Blu-Ray, and look forward to watching it again. There's some folks from my Dad's side of the family who have never seen a movie about apologetics; hopefully they'll sit down for this.
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Originally Posted by robgmun
Well i enjoyed 90% of the film, until the last 10 mins, i don't know, just having the professor renouncing his atheism before he died and then having two ministers standing over his body smiling saying it's a joyous occasion just didn't sit right with me at all!
From a Christian perspective, another soul saved is always an occasion to rejoice; that's what the filmmakers were aiming to show. Don't confuse that with apathy or cruelty about death in itself.
There seems to be a lot of bizarre praise for what was one of the most hated and controversial movies of 2014, does anyone actually like this for its perceived merits or just because it happens to agree with your beliefs?
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