Monday, June 3, 2013

Because I said so: The Godfather Defence of God

The Godfather is undoubtedly one of the most popular films of all time and a true classic that really solidified and defined the mobster flick genre. Mobster flicks are one of those guilty pleasures where the audience is drawn in by the charisma and power of glamorized gangsters.  The appeal of the characters is undeniable and we allow ourselves to cheer for criminals as they undertake their campaigns of extortion and murder in the name of a romanticized warped code of "honour among thieves." We allow ourselves this because we it's just a movie, those people aren't really dead; no actual humans were harmed. We know that in the real world organized crime bosses and their henchmen are not exactly the kind of people that any ethical member of society should really want to get involved with, yet alone idolize and worship, but this is warped sense of morality is at the heart of Ray Comfort's latest specious apologetic.





"I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." 
~ Vito Andolini Corleone, The Godfather

In a brilliant film moment in The Godfather,Vito Andolini Corleone, who plays The Godfather, coldly insinuates that he plans to coerce an unreceptive businessman and in doing so utters one of the best known lines in all of cinema, "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." Like any good crime boss he doesn't exactly say that he's going to threaten to kill the man but his nefarious intent is quite clear; "Obey be or die" Corleone is above the law; he is the law; whatever he says goes; period!

Today, in one of his regular Facebook posts, brother Ray, like a right good fella that he is, issued a veiled offer of his own on behalf of the Big Capo Die Capi, God Almighty.


Those who accuse God of committing atrocities in the Old Testament can't possibly win. If God doesn't exist, there were no atrocities. If He committed the crimes, He exists--and so does the Day of Judgment 
~ Ray Comfort, Facebook June 3rd, 2013

Ray Comfort: "Those who accuse God of committing atrocities in the Old Testament can’t possibly win. If God doesn’t exist, there were no atrocities. If He committed the crimes, He exists--and so does the Day of Judgment."

Ray is a really good apologist; not in the sense that he presents reasonable arguments but that he really knows how to craft a response that sounds just reasonable enough to allow the faithful to shut down their minds without feeling ashamed. In this post Ray is pretending to provide an answer to a well known, and obvious, argument against the existence of God on the basis that he 

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