God's Not Dead (2014)

Kevin Sorbo: Professor Radisson

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• Professor Radisson : If you're looking for an easy grade without much work put into it, now would be your turn to leave.

• Josh Wheaton : At the end of last class, Professor Radisson quoted Richard Dawkins, and, to be honest, I didn't know how to refute him. After all, Mr. Dawkins is a genius. But, John Lennox, Professor of Mathematics and Philosophic thought at the University of Cambridge, famously quoted in response to Dawkins: "Nonsense remains nonsense, even when it comes from the mouths of famous scientists."

  Professor Radisson : This is ridiculous! Are you, a college freshman, saying Richard Dawkins is wrong?

  Josh Wheaton : No, that's not what I'm saying, I'm saying that Professor John Lennox is saying that Richard Dawkins's logic is faulty, and that I agree with him.

• Professor Radisson : I made a big mistake with you Josh. Letting you get up in front of my classroom and preach your propaganda. Well, today we're gonna shake things up a bit.

• Josh Wheaton : Evil. Evil has historically been the most potent weapon atheists use against the Christian faith, and they're right. After all, if God is all powerful and all good, why would he let evil exist? Well, the answer itself is remarkably simple, and it's two words. Free will. God allows evil to exist, only on a temporary basis, so that those that choose to love him freely can one day, be united with him in Heaven, saved from all evil and forever in the Kingdom of God. In other words, God's only intention with evil is that he will one day destroy it.

  Professor Radisson : Well how convenient. One day, He will destroy all evil, but in the meantime, you all just have to deal with all the wars, hurricanes, poverty, starvation, tornadoes, holocausts, tsunamis, massacres, and AIDS. Have a nice life. Next he'll be lecturing us on moral absolutes?

  Josh Wheaton : Yeah, but why not? Professor Raddison, who's clearly an atheist, says he does not believe in moral absolutes. Yet, I bet if I was to get an A on the final exam by cheating, he would suddenly start sounding like a Christian, insisting that it's wrong to cheat, that I should know that, yet, what basis does he have? If my actions are calculated to help me succeed, then why shouldn't I perform them? Because, for Christians, lying, cheating, stealing, stealing a grade I didn't earn, as in my example, are completely forbidden, but for atheists, nothing is forbidden.

  Professor Radisson : So, what, you're saying, that, a moral atheist is some kind of impossibility?

  Josh Wheaton : No, it's not, but if there's no God there's no real reason to be moral. As Dostoevsky famously once pointed out, if God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

  Professor Radisson : Why don't you admit the truth. You just want to ensnare them in your primitive superstition!

  Josh Wheaton : What I want, is for them to make their own choice, that's what God wants. The only difference between me and you, is that you take away their free choice. You demand they check the box that says I don't believe.

  Professor Radisson : Because I want to free them. Because religion is like a mind-virus which parents pass down to their children. And Christianity is the worst virus of all, it slowly creeps into our lives when we're weak, or poor, or helpless!

  Josh Wheaton : So religion is like a disease?

  Professor Radisson : Yes. It infects everything, it's the opposite of reason.

  Josh Wheaton : Reason, professor you left reason a long time ago, this isn't philosophy. It's not even atheism! What you're teaching is anti-theism!

  Professor Radisson : You have no idea how much I'll enjoy failing you.

  Josh Wheaton : Yeah, but it's not about failing me, is it? It's about failing God.

  Josh Wheaton : Do you hate God, professor?

  Professor Radisson : That's not even a question.

  Josh Wheaton : Okay, why, do you hate God?

  Professor Radisson : This is ridiculous.

  Josh Wheaton : Why do you hate God? You've seen the evidence and the science, it supports His existence, you know the truth! So why do you hate God, professor? Why do you hate Him? It's a very simple question, professor, why do you hate God?

  Professor Radisson : BECAUSE HE TOOK EVERYTHING FROM ME! YES, I HATE GOD! ALL I HAVE FOR HIM IS HATE!

  Josh Wheaton : How could you hate someone, who doesn't even exist?