I watched the American film "God Is Not Dead 1-3", which talks about religion in one breath. Although I am not a believer, I am not fanatical about religion, but I still find this series of films very interesting, and some places are also very touching, especially the first one. Two. The heroine history teacher Grace answered a student about the similarities between Martin Luther King and Jesus in class, but Grace retelled the record about Jesus in the Bible in class to answer the students’ questions. , Is there a missionary indoctrination in the classroom? The teacher and the school refused to give in, and a lawsuit started like this. The prosecution believed that Grace, as a teacher, responded by using class time to preach, bringing religion into the classroom, guiding and manipulating students’ thinking, breaking the school’s rules of not standing in line on politics and religion, and affecting students’ right to choose freely. The rights of the majority, which caused protests from students and parents, and was even sued by the American Civil Liberty Union (ACLU). The prosecution lawyer proved in court that Jesus did not exist. “We have to prove one thing to the world that God is dead.” But the defense lawyer eventually helped Grace win the case and convince the jury that “God is not dead”. In the hearts of Christian believers.
The movie raises a question, what should schools do? What should the teacher say? There is also a similar situation in the chapter on "The History of the Kuomintang’s "Party-oriented" Education" in Li Ke and Shen Yan’s "Biography of Cai Yuanpei": "Cai Yuanpei’s "educational independence" proposition and the Kuomintang government’s "Party-oriented education" policy are also increasing. The more outdated. "Party education" was once used by the Kuomintang as the guiding ideology of education during the so-called "government training" period. Party education, in a narrow sense, refers to the ruling party promoting its own political theory and ideological education in schools, and even establishing in schools And the development of party organizations, that is, the partyization of education. Broadly speaking, it refers to the education that promotes the ideology of the ruling party to the society."...In 1929, Hu Shi said in a speech at a Chinese public school: "(Now we ) We can deny the existence of God, but we cannot criticize Sun Yat-sen. We can not go to church for worship, but we have to read the Prime Minister’s will, and we have to participate in the weekly Sun Yat-sen’s memorial week."
Returning to the movie about whether there is a dilemma that has entangled the world and philosophers for thousands of years, let’s see how the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus "reduced absurdity" to prove the non-existence of God.
Major premise: If God exists, he must be both omnipotent and loving. He is almighty, so he has the ability to eliminate the suffering of the world; he is loving, so he must be willing to eliminate the suffering of the world.
Small premise: But the world is full of suffering. Therefore, either God is not omnipotent and therefore unable to eliminate the suffering of the world; or God is not loving, so he is unwilling to eliminate the suffering of the world. However, this conflicts with the major premise.
Conclusion: Therefore, God does not exist. Obviously, the professor's logic and views are in the same line as Epicurus.
Theism tries to answer this difficult question. Epicurus and Professor's "Suffering Rebellion Method" seems to be logically rigorous and impeccable. In fact, they have already presupposed the utilitarian nature of faith in their premise, so they stipulate that God must be responsible for the suffering of the world.
This is the essence of many philosophers and writers' anti-Christianity, and it is also the main reason for many unbelievers in real life to resist God, as well as the great perplexity of believers in the face of suffering.
Many lines in the movie are also very interesting, such as:
——If we sit back and watch and follow the trend, today’s pressure will become tomorrow’s persecution.
——If you are prepared to insist that the right of Christian faith is subordinate to all other rights, then it is not a right (Somebody is always going to be offended. Two thousand years of human history proves that. ). Someone will always be offended (because of other people's beliefs), and the 2000s of human history have always proved this.
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