God Does Exist. The Power of Good Media.

6 Responses to God Does Exist. The Power of Good Media.

1. Kelly Bateson says:

   September 28, 2009 at 5:02 pm

   I love it too! It’s posted on my facebook page : ). Much love to you!

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2. Phillip P says:

   September 28, 2009 at 5:21 pm

   Sadly, another hoax originating in cute e-mail forwards. Einstein never did anything of the sort…

   http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp

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3. Devman says:

   September 28, 2009 at 7:19 pm

   Phillip,

   Einstein may or may not have–the unauthoritative “snopes” urban legends article you reference was written by a human being, with a bias, who did not find this in whichever biographies of Einstein she looked at. That does not prove the incident did not occur. You choose to believe the snopes article writer is trustworthy.

   In either case, the argument itself must be dealt with, regardless of whether Einstein said or someone else did.

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4. willow says:

   September 29, 2009 at 12:05 am

   Umm, excuse me, you don’t think this video has bias???? What happened to appreciation for science, as in theories based on the scientific method? Oh, that’s right, there’s no such thing! how silly of me to forget. How can one justify all the religious fighting that’s gone on for centuries as not evil? how do you explain the inquisition as not evil? the crusades? sheeeesh…….I can’t read this blog anymore, it raises my blood pressure and offends my faith

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5. Devin Rose says:

   September 29, 2009 at 8:27 am

   Hi Willow,

   I never said that this video doesn’t have bias. It certainly does: It has a bias toward the existence of God. I only mentioned that the snopes article has a bias, too. I can accept that both of these things have bias.

   I appreciate science and the scientific method: This video and whether Einstein actually did what it portrays him as doing doesn’t speak directly to “theories based on the scientific method,” so I don’t understand why you are bringing that up as if it “science” was denigrated in the video?

   Then you come back with the 1-2-3 punch: “Religious wars, Inquisition, crusades…gotcha!”

   Have we been speaking about religious wars on this blog somewhere recently? Have you asked me to address the Inquisition? Or the crusades? I don’t recall you doing so, so I don’t understand why you bring these up as if to prove that religion or the Catholic Church is evil and imply that somehow this video of Einstein is related to it?

   I would be happy to address any specific charge you would like to make regarding the crusades or the Inquisition or “religious wars.” To paint them all with a broad brush as “evil” is naive and unscientific. The crusades, for instance, had multiple instances and goals and spanned centuries: There was much good in them and plenty of bad, both within Christendom and from the Muslims.

   I could respond to you with my own attack that says: “Stalin, Hitler, fascism, communism: Tens of millions murdered and the most horrible war ever seen started due to atheistic ideologies held by these men….gotcha!” Do you see how unproductive it is?

   In any event, obviously these things have been simmering within you for some time, and somehow this post and the comments were the straw that broke the camel’s back–if you do not want to read our blog, that is your prerogative. There are lots more out there besides ours, and many of them done by better writers than I.

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6. Katie says:

   September 29, 2009 at 2:10 pm

   Oh, dear Willow, peace be with you. You sound upset, and I know it is certainly no fun to have your blood pressure elevated. I am glad you have read our blog in the past but certainly don’t expect you to read it if you are made upset by the things you read.

   Just two quick points, if I may.

   First, it seems to me that the commercial is not denigrating the scientific method nor all the discoveries of science. Rather, it is defending the claims of Christianity against the attacks of an ideology which cloaks itself in scientific language but is really just plain old atheism. As Devin mentioned, if you’d like us to address the relation between faith-reason or religion-science according to our Catholic understanding, we’d be happy to do so because we are very proud of the reasonableness of our faith and the many contributions made to science by Catholics throughout the centuries.

   Second, Mr. Phillip, thank you, however, for the “urban legend” alert. I am not the least surprised that young Albert Einstein may not have actually said those words. I assumed the video was employing the literary device of placing words in the mouth of a character to prove a point–words that Einstein may have said later in life or words that paraphrase his attitude toward anti-religious atheism that calls itself “science.” I still love the video, even if it is not, in fact, literal history.

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