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Hope for the Future? Chris Pratt Mentions God (Gasp) During MTV Awards Speech.
Check out Chris Pratt’s acceptance speech during the MTV movie awards. My biggest surprise was that he actually got cheers when he mentions God. I’m shocked they didn’t bleep out the word God on MTV, since it’s considered profane on that channel.
Should there be some hope for the future?
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Funny how Fred thinks his tropes are so smart and proof of his righteousness while all others stopes are so stupid and proof of others inferiority.
Just a statement of fact.
You’re welcome to counter it by pointing to current members of Congress who are out atheists.
All true. And none of which explains why they would need to bleep references to God. People can be not particularly religious, into all kinds of things that make the toes of the more devout curl, but still not offended by a reference to God!
But that wouldn’t demonstrate anything, unless we could also track their campaign ads, election rallies, and polls to see if a) they mentioned belief in God (or lack thereof), and b) if it moved the needle at all.
It’s just a stupid comment that I frequently see from new atheists trying to don the cloak of victimhood. “Oh, pity us poor atheists! People discriminate against us because we don’t believe in your sky fairy!”
Consider: there might be another reason that a certain type of atheist is disliked.
For certain we have a lot of functional atheists in high office regardless of whether they claim a belief.
Correlation does not imply causation.
um…. that was a joke. I wasn’t serious that MTV would ACTUALLY censor the word God.
Sorry. I’m unclear. What is a “functional atheist”?
A functional atheist is one that does not take a belief in God seriously, bases none of his actions on their belief in God and is unmoved by appeals to the Faith they claim to hold. Their lack of claiming to be atheist may allow them more flexibility to accept religious or faith based help when it conforms to his agenda but it is always the faithful coming to his pre-held position it never is him being moved by his faith to take a position he already didn’t hold.
Before I had a conversion to follow Christ I was a functional atheist. I never claimed there was no God but I lived and acted and made my decision as if there was no God.
Did you act like you and other people had a soul? It is my observation that atheists act like they and other have a soul no matter how much they disbelieve it.
Atheism is the belief of boys. – Me, paraphrasing Lewis again
I think I did yes. Atheist have to get by day by day like everyone else and have to wake up every morning and find meaning. Behaving as if there is soul helps with all that.
Fred, I disagree with what you said about Hollywood, but agree with you about high office.
On the Hollywood issue, I suggest that you listen to Andrew Klavan, who is very clear on this point based on his own personal experience. I have no such experience, but find Klavan to be a highly credible source.
OK, the parts about dog meds and poop science were really weird. It may have been just an attempt at humor, but I think it more likely that it was comic cover that Pratt used for his main points, which were excellent.
He hit 4 major theistic points — you have a soul, God is real, learn to pray, nobody is perfect.
I have a bit of a problem with the “don’t bully” part, but only because of the twisted effect of today’s victim routine. We often have weak, stupid people acting as bullies precisely because it would be perceived as bullying to give them a well-deserved smack-down. I don’t have a good solution to this. It seems to recur over and over — belligerent or uncooperative criminal suspects provoking the police, Palestinians charging the Israeli border, unruly students shutting down lectures with threats and chanting.
I agree with Pratt’s main point that strength and intelligence should not be misused.
I assumed it was hyperbole, but based on the mistaken belief that there wouldn’t be strong overlap between people believing in god and MTV types. My spouse is clergy, and the tales of seminary classmates’ drunken sexcapades before ordination suggest to me that MTV can be raunchy as all get out and still attract religious people!