You Must Rent This One

Instead of going down­town to see what Hal­loween in Charleston might be, I stayed in the hotel room and watched sev­eral movies on my lap­top com­puter (sort­ing through for clips that I will use in class today). The last movie I watched was the best. In fact, it was the best doc­u­men­tary I think I have ever seen. It is titled: Expelled and is a sim­ple but pro­found movie by Ben Stein. It inves­ti­gates the Dar­win­ian mind­set of the present age, in light of how it has been used in the past — par­tic­u­larly by Nazi Ger­many.
For­get the elec­tion. If you really want to change the world, rent this movie instead, and ver­bal­ize its find­ings.
I will be buy­ing the movie and show­ing it to small groups at the par­son­age over the next year.
It is amaz­ing how we take view­points for granted, but not really real­ize the impli­ca­tions. We get used to the nomen­cla­ture and the erro­neous assump­tions. When they are acted out in soci­ety, we won­der why things have got­ten so crazy. The longer I live, the more I real­ize the need for the church to be the con­science of a soci­ety — espe­cially the ones that loses their way so eas­ily (like this one). I also find it intel­lec­tu­ally sober­ing to real­ize how easy it is for Chris­tian­ity to be used by spirit-denying forces…to its own demise.
Today is All Saints Day — a time to embrace the mem­o­ries of those brave indi­vid­u­als that went before us. After a few moments of admi­ra­tion, it is time to do our part too. An occa­sional nod toward the past is essen­tial for mean­ing­ful liv­ing. It shines a bit of light on our present, but you can­not live in it. There is a day ahead. Heads up! This is the day the Lord has made…