Pakistan Holds Iranian Art Festival And Lies All Over Jesus Christ - With Video
Pakistan has held an art festival to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in the capital city of Islamabad.
Organized by Iran’s cultural office in Islamabad and Pakistan’s National Council of the Arts (PNCA), the weeklong event includes film screenings and an art exhibition.
Iranian artists demonstrate for visitors how their woodworks, paintings, calligraphies, caricatures, marquetry, glassworks and embroideries are created.
The exhibition also displays traditional outfits, miniature paintings, historical photographs, ceramics, and hand-woven carpets and Kilims, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Photographs depicting the country’s natural, historical and religious sites offer a glimpse into the different tourist attractions of Iran.
PNCA Director-General Naeem Taher said the event is a great step toward developing closer cultural ties between Iran and Pakistan.
“There are a lot of similarities between Iranian and Pakistani cultures and and such events not only bring the two countries closer, but also help promote political, economic and diplomatic relations,†Taher told Press TV.
The festival, which will run until Feb. 3, 2009, is set to screen four Iranian films including Nader Talebzadeh’s Jesus.
LA Times likes it, of course … someone ask them how they feel about Geert Wilder’s “Fitna”:
An Iranian’s vision of Jesus’ life stirs debate
By Jeffrey Fleishman
TEHRAN — A man wrapped in a shawl stood at the door.
“This is Jesus,” said another man.
Jesus sat and peeled an orange as his companion, Nader Talebzadeh, began to speak, precisely, so as not to be misunderstood on a matter so sensitive. The Iranian director’s new film is based on the Islamic version of the life of Jesus, depicting the man Christians believe to be the messiah and son of God as a tormented Judean prophet foretelling the coming of Muhammad, the founder of the Muslim faith.
One might imagine such a tale may not screen well in the red states of America. The film, nearly 10 years in the making, draws on the Koran and the putative Gospel of Barnabas, considered by many Western scholars a medieval fable. The premise of “Jesus, the Spirit of God” is that Jesus was compassionate and performed miracles, but was not crucified or resurrected from the dead. The message implies that Christianity, a faith of 2 billion people and the core of much Western philosophy, is based on a falsehood.
“I pray for Christians. They’ve been misled. They will realize one day the true story,” said Talebzadeh, whose film has been screened at international film festivals and is being marketed for wider release.
“People might use this film as a strategy to further demonize Iran,” he said. “They may succeed. But I hope once you see that the focus of the film is sacred, it will overwhelm. No one would have imagined that an Iranian would make a film to glorify Jesus.”
Not to mention an Iranian who supports President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and believes 9/11 was partly a U.S. government conspiracy. “Someone masterminded something,” he said. “And this is the cause for a lot of evil America is doing in this part of the world.”
There is another irony. The actor who plays Jesus, Ahmad Soleimani-Nia, once was a soldier in the Iranian army and later a welder for Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency, which the Bush administration accuses of pursuing nuclear weapons. Such footnotes don’t seem odd when talking with Talebzadeh, who has kept Nia in Jesus character — flowing hair, beard, mystic pose — for seven years because he never knows when he might shoot new sequences for the film.
“Jesus, the Spirit of God” comes out of Iran at a time of hostile rhetoric between Washington and Tehran and a divide between Islam and the West that has produced jihad websites, DVDs on the apocalypse, editorial cartoons lampooning Muhammad and a recent Osama bin Laden tape condemning Pope Benedict XVI for a “new crusade” against Islam.
Religion has long been at the heart of tensions between East and West, but it is being swept into a wider cultural war played out on the Internet, film and satellite TV in which icons and sacred texts have been attacked and manipulated. A new Dutch film by a right-wing politician, who compares the Koran to Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” depicts Islam as a violent faith. In response, a Saudi blogger posted a video suggesting that the Bible could be read as a document for war.
Talebzadeh knows that his Jesus walks on volatile terrain; one wonders, given the tenor of the times, how many fatwas would be issued if a Western director made a film suggesting that Muhammad, whose depiction is forbidden under Islamic tradition, was someone other than the prophet.
“There is so much wrong with this man’s understanding of Jesus and Christianity,” wrote an incensed Christian blogger, referring to Talebzadeh in a conversation about the film that is unfolding in cyberspace. “It’s another piece of Satanic propaganda intended to accomplish no meaningful purpose in this world.”
The rough, choppily edited $5-million film, condensed from a 1,000-minute-long series that will soon air on Iranian TV, reveres Jesus as a blessed prophet speaking parables and moving through soft light and angelic chants amid a ruckus of zealots and conspiring Pharisees. The narrative and dialogue are attributed to Islamic teachings and Jesus’ disciple Barnabas, whose gospel the director said was hidden by church authorities so as not to undermine the established Christian faith.
Scholars believe that the gospel, not included in the canon of the early Catholic Church, was written by others centuries later and ascribed to Barnabas. It overlaps with the stories of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but it does not present Jesus as the son of God. Barnabas’ tale resonates with Muslims who believe that it supports the Koran’s teaching that Jesus, though born of a virgin, was not divine, but one of the last great prophets. Talebzadeh’s film shows Jesus ascending to heaven before Roman soldiers come for him; Judas, the disciple who betrays him, is transformed into the likeness of Jesus and crucified. According to Islamic traditions, Jesus is alive and will return to defeat evil.
“Barnabas is a missing link the world is not ready to accept. It’s a piece of literature we should look into,” said Talebzadeh, a man with a graying beard who sat in his office the other day before a bowl of fruit.
Draped in a shawl and legs crossed as if in meditation, Nia-as-Jesus lingered behind Talebzadeh looking very much like a 1970s rock star. He was quiet, serene, a former welder with a thespian calling drifting between the Koran and the New Testament. He had never acted before, but his light skin and angular features mixed with Middle East repose conjured an aura of Western aesthetics and Eastern spirituality.
“I’ve never been able to resolve why I am so drawn to Jesus,” said Nia, a Muslim born in the western mountains of Iran near Iraqi Kurdistan. “It goes back to when I was a boy of 7 or 8. I saw a painting of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ and I identified with Jesus. He has always been with me. In my neighborhood, with my long hair and beard, I am known as Jesus.”
Talebzadeh grew up in Iran under the reign of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. In 1970, he moved to the United States, where he says he studied at American University in Washington, D.C., and Columbia University in New York. He witnessed a convulsive American decade of antiwar protests over Vietnam and the resignation of Richard Nixon.
For much of that time, Iran was a U.S. ally. That changed in 1979, when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led an Islamic revolution that toppled the shah and resulted in 52 Americans being held hostage for 444 days.
“I returned to Iran feeling there was a huge misunderstanding in the West about my country,” he said. “Iran was being demonized.”
Talebzadeh directed a number of documentaries on themes such as the Bosnian conflict and the Iran-Iraq war. In 1999, he began filming “Jesus, the Spirit of God,” which grew out of a passion that began decades earlier when he attended a school in Tehran with Christians and continued over his fascination with the purported writings of Barnabas.
“If there’s one thing in my life I wanted to do, this film is it,” said the director, whose Jesus movie won an interfaith dialogue award at the 2007 Religion Today Film Festival in Italy. “I didn’t say Jesus wasn’t crucified, God did. It’s in the Koran. . . . The film is made with faith. I tried to do it as beautifully as I could.”
He added that he hoped his 35-millimeter film would start a conversation between religions: “In the 21st century, the arts and the media have to create an area for more cordial discussions between faiths at a time when information is moving in the blink of an eye. . . . We should be joining people together, not giving distortion and misunderstanding. We have to say, ‘Have you looked at this door to know the truth about Jesus?’ ”
Some Americans have peeked through Talebzadeh’s door. He showed the movie to four audiences in the United States, and it was recently screened at the Philadelphia Film Festival. He said many people were open-minded and intrigued by the historical and religious questions it raised.
“The truth has a whole, different vibration to it,” he said. “If you enhance it with artistry, you can create a discussion.”
Not according to the website of the Worldwide Church of God in Fairfield, Calif.: “Attempts by the Iranians or anyone else who try to deny that Jesus Christ is the true messiah will ultimately fail. The Holy Bible confirms the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ of Nazareth in numerous ways, and no amount of filmmaking or lecturing or rhetoric to the contrary can defeat that fact.”
Nia-as-Jesus finished his orange. Talebzadeh, whose office was warm in the afternoon sun, kept talking about the film, about divinity, about how to capture truth.
He turned in his chair toward Jesus, and was still, after all these years, amazed at the likeness, the highlighted hair, eyes of fervor. He joked that he had been searching for his lead character for a long time when his assistant director spotted Nia on the street one day and said, “I found your Jesus.”
Nia-as-Jesus liked this story, happenstance leading, as he sees it, to destiny.
(H/T Sweetness and Light)
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“I pray for Christians. They’ve been misled. They will realize one day the true story,â€
…That a pedophile wondered around some cave, thought of a way to manipulate people, made a bunch of shit up every day and called it the word of god.
Blasphemy has it’s own reward. As muzz will find out.
Thankfully the LA Times will likely be a memory in the coming year and we won’t have to suffer them fawning over muslim blasphemy such as this any more.
Easy button has been pushed.
islam sucks. (Small i intended with no respect.)
Mohammed was a pedophile.
Death to islam.
Keeping to its’ true colors the blow-hard reporter at the L.A. Times attempts to denigrate the Christian religion.
Wait’ll they get a load of my shit.
Fuck Islam
This does not surprise me. Remember that Jesus himself told his disciples before He was crucified that there would be many false prophets and even those who claimed to be Jesus Christ. He warned us to study and pray so as not to be led astray by Satan’s deceivers.
If you study the prophecies from the Old Testament about the last days, you will see that God himself will tend to most of the muslims. And when God takes action, He makes it well known and very thorough.
Pixie
Amen Patriots Pixie
Deuteronomy 18:15-20
Deueteronomy 18: A Prophet From Among Your Brothers
Addressing the people of Israel, Moses prophesied the coming of a prophet whom Muslim apologists identify with Muhammad.
“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him. For this is what you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, ‘Let us not hear the voice of the Lord our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.’ The Lord said to me: ‘What they say is good. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him. If anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call him to account.’” (Deuteronomy 18:15-20)
There are two points in this passage which are significant to the Muslim. First, the prophet is promised to come “from among your own brothers.” The Israelites to whom Moses spoke were the descendants of Abraham through his son Isaac. Isaac’s brother was Ishmael. Ishmael’s descendants are the Arab peoples. Israel’s brothers, then, are the Arabs. This passage is speaking of an Arab prophet. Muhammad is the only candidate for an Arab prophet in the line of Old Testament prophets.
The second important point in this passage is that God “will put (his) words in (the prophet’s) mouth.” This prophet is one who will preach the divine message orally. No mention is here made of any writings. To learn the truth, one must listen to the voice of the prophet. This was fulfilled in Muhammad the Unlettered Prophet who, illiterate, proclaimed his message entirely orally.
These Muslim arguments are plausible only when this passage in taken out of the context of the entire plan of God. It is true that Arabs are descended from the brother of Isaac. However, Jews always reserved the word “brothers” for their own kind. The rift between Jews and Ishmaelites was deep. So deep, in fact, that it continues today, some 35 centuries later. Muslim apologists should be asked to consider how Moses describes the neighboring people, including the Arab “brothers,” in the verses which immediately precede v. 15:
“When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord, and because of these detestable practices the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you. You must be blameless before the Lord your God.” (Deuteronomy 18:9-14)
There was no brotherly love between Jews and Arabs! The prophet like Moses was to be a Jew.
Secondly, the fact that God will put his words into the prophet’s mouth hardly proves that the prophet must be “unlettered.” Every prophet’s main duty was oral proclamation of the Word of God. This is why the Catholic rejects the Protestant notion of sola scriptura. God’s message has always been revealed primarily by oral means. Only later were the messages of the prophets written down. Even if it is granted that the prophet must not write, this still does not prove it to be Muhammad.
Muslim apologists should consider that great prophets such as Elijah, Elisha, Nathan, and John the Baptist all came after Moses and all wrote nothing.
There is a prophet who does fit the bill. This prophet is Jewish, from among the Israelite’s brothers. The words of God were in this prophet’s mouth. Plus, if the Muslim is insistent on this as well, this prophet wrote nothing. The prophet of Deuteronomy is none other than Jesus: “We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the Law, and also the prophets, Jesus son of Joseph, from Nazareth.” (John 1:45)
Isaiah 42: A Chip Off The Ol’ Kedar
Muslim apologists claim that the Prophet Isaiah foretold the coming of Muhammad.
“Here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one with whom I am pleased, upon whom I have put my Spirit; he shall bring forth justice to the nations…Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise from the end of the earth: Let the sea and what fills it resound, the coast lands, and those who dwell in them. Let the steppe and its cities cry out, the villages where Kedar dwells; let the inhabitants of Sela exult and shout from the mountains.” (Isaiah 42:1ff)
The man Kedar was the son of Ishmael and one of the patriarchs of the Arab people, as well as an ancestor of the Prophet Muhammad. Sela is the name of an Arab city, the capitol of Edom. Therefore, claims the Muslim, the servant, God’s chosen one (Arabic “Mustafa”), must be an Arab descendant of Kedar. Dr. Salah el Dareer writes: “In verse 11, (the servant) is identified specifically as Kedar and Sela. Kedar or ‘Qaydar’ was one of Ishmael’s sons and an ancestor of Muhammad–peace be upon him–and Sela was the name of an Arabian city…It is significant that Isaiah identifies the universal prophet both by nation, namely Arab, and tribal descendant, namely Kedar, whose descendants are the tribe of Koreish that lived in Mecca, from whom Muhammad came.” (2)
The Muslim interpretation of this passage has several major flaws. First of all, as Dr. El Dareer stated, Muslims claim that Isaiah identifies the servant as a member of the Kedar clan. This is untrue. The context of the passage shows that the servant is to be a universal prophet, who will return God’s covenant to all peoples. Kedar and Sela are used as examples of foreign people brought back into the Lord’s fold.
Similar things are promised to Egypt, Ethiopia, and Seba. The servant can’t come from all four nations. It is more reasonable to assume, then, that this prophet of the Jewish scriptures will be Jewish.
Muslim apologists should be asked to consider the words of this prophecy. Muhammad was not only a religious leader, he was also a warlord. He spread Islam by warfare, and conquered for himself a sizable empire. His Holy Qur’an proclaims: “Slay the infidel wherever you find them!” This is not meant to be an ad hominem attack. Muhammad’s character and the prudence of his military exploits are not under consideration here. However, his life of battle proves that he is not the servant of prophecy. Dear Muslim friend, please carefully read the words of the prophecy:
“Here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one with whom I am pleased, upon whom I have put my Spirit. He shall bring forth justice to the nations, not crying out, not shouting, not making his voice heard in the street. A bruised reed he shall not break, and a smoldering wick he shall not quench, until he establishes justice on the earth; the coast lands will wait for his teaching.” (Isaiah 42:1-4)
The servant is a man of peace, not of war. That man is none other than the Prince of Peace himself, Jesus Christ.
John 14: Muhammad the Paraclete
Since the Qu’ran recognizes Jesus as a true prophet of God, it is essential to Muslim apologists that he be portrayed as paving the way for Muhammad. There is only one possibility in all the gospels. Only once does Jesus foretell the coming of another leader. “I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, which the world can not accept, because it neither sees nor knows it.” (John 14:16,17) Islamic apologists argue that the Advocate is Muhammad.
The Muslim interpretation of this passage is untenable for several reasons. First and foremost, the passage explicitly states who the Advocate is: “the Spirit of truth which the world can not accept,” and again in verse 26, “the Advocate, the Holy Spirit that the Father will send in my name.”
The Islamic understanding of this passage is also flawed because, once again, Muhammad does not fit the description of the promised one.
This Paraclete (Advocate or Comforter) is promised directly to the apostles. Muhammad was born in 570 AD and began his ministry in 610 AD, centuries after the apostles died. Christ’s Advocate is to “remain with you always.” The Prophet Muhammad died June 8, 632. The Advocate is to “be in you.” Muhammad was but a man, flesh and bone, who could not possess anyone.
The Paraclete is God the Holy Spirit. He was sent to the apostles on the Day of Pentecost, as recorded in Acts 2. By guiding the Church as the soul of the Body of Christ, this Advocate remains with us always.
The Credibility of Scripture
These three passages–Deuteronomy 18, Isaiah 42, and John 14–represent Islam’s best attempt to find Muhammad in the Bible. When placed back into the proper context, these passages clearly speak of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, not Muhammad. Muslim apologists have an answer to this. They claim that the Bible has been corrupted by Jews and Christians. This has been their fall back technique since the very beginning. Even the Qur’an declares: “People of the Book, now there has come to you our Messenger, making clear to you many things you have been concealing of the Book, and defacing many things.” When Muhammad recognized that the locutions which he received from a spirit being did not jive with the Scripture, he simply claimed that the Scriptures had been corrupted.
Today’s apologists mirror the tactic of their prophet. When faced with the evidence that the Advocate of John 14 is specifically called the Holy Spirit, Dr. Salah el Dareer asserted that “the expression, ‘which is the Holy Ghost’ (v. 26 KJV), is a manifest interpolation put in by the unknown author of this gospel or by a later copyist.” (3) Dr. El Dareer’s copyist could not been much later, since manuscript and patristic evidence proves that the Old Testament has not changed at all from the second century BC, and the New Testament from the second century AD.
Oxford theologian Stephen Neill describes Islamic apologetics: “It is well known that at many points the Qur’an does not agree with the Jews and Christian Scriptures. Therefore, from the Muslim point of view, it follows of necessity that these Scriptures must have been corrupted. Historical evidence makes no impression on the crushing force of the syllogism. So it is, and it can be no other way. The Muslim controversialist feels no need to study evidence in detail.”(4)
Muslims should be called on their inconsistency. The Qur’an directs them to search the Old and New Testaments for the truth. Yet, when this truth disproves Islam, the same Qur’an condemns the Bible.
The Muslim Secret Weapon
Muslim apologists claim to have a secret weapon which proves that the Christian Scriptures have been corrupted. Islamic apologists claim that St. Barnabas wrote a Gospel which was once considered canonical. It was condemned by Pope Gelasius and almost all copies destroyed. The Gospel was lost until the 16th century, when an Italian Muslim discovered it, supposedly in the Vatican library.
From the very beginning of this Gospel, its author makes his purpose clear: “Barnabas, apostle of Jesus the Nazarene, called Christ, to all them that dwell upon the earth…(M)any, being deceived of Satan, under pretense of piety, are preaching most impious doctrine, calling Jesus Son of God…among whom is Paul deceived.” The Gospel presents a fanciful story of Christ’s calling, of his revelation of God’s will, his betrayal, and his rescue from death. Judas, in this Gospel, is crucified in place of Christ, who was taken up into heaven.
Of greatest importance to Muslim apologists are Christ’s clear prophecies of Muhammad’s advent:
“Then said Jesus: ‘So secret is predestination, O brethren, that I say unto you, only to one man shall it be clearly known. He it is whom the nations look for, to whom the secrets of God are so clear that, when he cometh into the world, blessed shall they be that shall listen to his words…He is Muhammad, messenger of God…He is a white cloud full of the mercy of God, which mercy God shall sprinkle upon the faithful like rain.’” (Barnabas 163)
If it could be proven that these words were those of Barnabas or any other early Christian author, the Muslim would have a powerful argument. However, like all other Muslim apologetics, this is wrought with problems. Pages can (and have) been written documenting the contradictions within this Gospel, between the Gospel and the Bible, and between the Gospel and the Qur’an. The claim that this Gospel was considered canonical is false. It is the Epistle of Barnabas, never lost and completely consistent with orthodox Catholicism, that was sometimes considered canonical, and it makes no mention of Muhammad.
A Gnostic Gospel of Barnabas existed in the early centuries of the Church. It no longer exists today. However, as a Gnostic Gospel, it proclaimed a message of occult polytheism, which the Muslim would rightly reject. This Gnostic work was condemned by Pope Gelasius. No evidence exists which would place the Muslim Gospel of Barnabas before the 16th century. It is a blatant forgery by an Italian Muslim so jaded that he would deceive in the name of God.
There’s No Need For Muhammad
The entire message of the Bible reveals God’s plan to redeem mankind and unite all nations in one universal covenant family and kingdom. This was all fulfilled in the advent of Jesus Christ, the God-Man, and his Holy Catholic Church, “the pillar and foundation of truth.”(1 Timothy 3:15)
Having accomplished all this, what need is there for a new prophet, a new book, or a new faith? All nations are now united in God’s Church. In every nation from east to west, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is offered, just as the Prophet Malachi foretold. To be honest, Muhammad, Islam, and the Qur’an, if legitimate, would be the greatest anti-climaxes of salvation history. Catholics should be ready to show Muslim apologists that the truth, the fullness of truth, lies in Jesus Christ, the only name under heaven by which we can be saved.
The above was taken from
Answering The Attempt to Find Muhammad in Biblical Prophecy
by
Jeff Childers
http://www.catholicapologetics.info/apologetics/islam/find.htm
We are specifically commanded not to worship the sun, moon and stars (Deut 4:19)
Jesus was born a Jew hundreds of years before Mohammed ever existed…
1)Love the Lord thy God
1) Love they neighbor as thyself
all order is based on this.. all civilization is based on this.. Jesus said King James Bible
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13
these two great commandments are not in the Koran
The five deceptions of Islam:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qgbWMEedJM
Was Allah The Moon God of Ancient Arab Pagan?
By Syed Kamran Mirza
Historical evidences, impartial logic, well versed references and all available circumstantial judgments can very well prove that—(a) Allah name of deity was pre-existed much before the arrival of Islam, (b) Pre-Islamic Pagan peoples worshipped Allah as their supreme deity (moon-god). Allah’s name existed in pre-Islamic Arab. In ancient Arab the Allah was considered to be the supreme God/deity (as Moon-God) and Arab Pagans worshipped Allah before Islam arrived.
Let us examine below some valid questions and answers :
Did the Pagan Arabs in pre-Islamic times worship 360 gods? Yes
Did the pagans Arabs worship the sun, moon and the stars? Yes
Did the Arabs built temples to the Moon-god? Yes
Did different Arab tribes give the Moon-god different names/titles? Yes
What were some of the names/titles? Sin, Hubul, Ilumquh, Al-ilah.
Was the title “al-ilah†(the god) used as the Moon-god? Yes
Was the word “Allah†derived from “al-ilah?†Yes
Was the pagan “Allah†a high god in a pantheon of deities? Yes.
Was he worshipped at the Kabah? Yes.
Was Allah only one of many Meccan gods? Yes
Did they place a statue of Hubul on top of the Kabah? Yes.
At that time was Hubul considered the Moon-god? Yes.
Was the Kabah thus the “house of the Moon-god� Yes.
Did the name “Allah†eventually replace that of Hubul as the name of the Moon god? Yes.
Did they call the Kabah the “house of Allah� Yes.
Were al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat called “the daughters of Allah� Yes.
Yusuf Ali explains in fn. 5096, pg. 1445, that Lat, Uzza and Manat were known as “the daughters of God [Allah]â€
Did the Qur’an at one point tell Muslims to worship al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat? Yes. In Surah 53:19-20.
Have those verses been “abrogated†out of the present Qur’an? Yes.
What were they called? “The Satanic Verses.â€
The variable names (Sin, Hubul, llumquh, Al-ilah) of moon god were used by various tribes of pagan Arabs. Pagan god SIN was the name of Moon-god.
Islam sucks! Ask any woman who has been liberated from its female hating grasp.
This is one example of why I believe my calling in God is to serve Him by making movies that feed the soul & spirit while entertaining the mind. In short, to force the Culture War from one of attrition to competing ideologies.