Woody Allen’s liberal political views come out in man of his films and his solution for peace is not realistic since he doesn’t recognize the Bible’s view of mankind’s fallen nature. With a correct view of man’s condition then subjects like war and abortion can be confronted and not ignored as many liberals. Appeasement is their rally cry when evil men seek to expand their kingdoms and “abortion rights of women” are advanced at the expense of the right to life rights of unborn female babies. All of this stems from an insufficient view of the sinfulness of man and where it originated from which was Adam’s rebellion against God in the Garden of Eden many years ago.

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In the movie BANANAS Woody Allen befriends a liberal student who gets him involved in liberal war protests. Later he goes to a Central America country and gets mixed up in what later becomes a coup by military group that says they want to return the rights to the people but they really are just the same as the previous regime.

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In the movie MIDNIGHT IN PARIS we also see these same liberal views come out of the mouth of GIL PENDER.

INEZ: We should get back to town. We’re meeting Mom and Dad for dinner.

GIL PENDER: Let’s meet ’em.

HELEN (INEZ’ MOM): There are our sightseers.

INEZ:If I never see another charming boulevard or bistro again, I…-

GIL PENDER: What a town!- Yes. To visit.I could see myself living here!I feel like the Parisians kind of “get me.”I can see myself just strolling along the Left Bank with a,you know, baguette under my arm,headed to Café de Floreto scribble away on my book.What did Hemingway say? He called it a “moveable feast.”

HELEN:In this traffic, nothing moves.Well, a toast to John’s new business venture here!- Cheers!- Cheers!-

GIL PENDER: Congratulations.-

JOHN (INEZ’ DAD) : Thank you.Well, I’ll be perfectly frank.I’m excited about this corporate merger between our folks and the French company, but otherwise,I’m not a big Francophile.-

HELEN: John hates their politics.-

JOHN: Certainly been no friend to the United States.

GIL PENDER: Well, I mean, you can’t exactly blame them for not following us down that rabbit’s hole in Iraq.- The whole Bush, you know,…-

INEZ: Oh, please. Let’s not get into this- bad discussion again and again. –

GIL PENDER: Honey,honey. We’re not getting into– By the way, it’s fine for your father and I to disagree.That’s what a democracy is.Your father defends the right-wing of the Republican party,and I happen to think you almost got to be- like, a demented lunatic, but it’s like…- Okay. Okay!But it doesn’t mean we don’t respect each other’s views, am I right?-

(Bill Wellons pictured above)

Bill Wellons (teaching pastor at FELLOWSHIP BIBLE CHURCH in Little Rock from 1977 to 2009) in his sermon on Ecclesiastes MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR TIME (04-28-96) made these comments:

Ecclesiastes 3:7 says, “There is a time to be silent and a time to speak.” I wish I had learned this a long time ago.

James 1:19   ^“Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger…”

Proverbs 10:19 “When words are many, transgression is not lacking,  but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.” 

My interpretation of this verse is “a closed mouth gathers no feet.” THERE IS A TIME TO SPEAK TOO. Those in attendance at the 1994 National Prayer Breakfast held in conjunction with the National Religious Broadcasters witnessed a time for speaking. Mother Teresa took the podium and pleaded for the lives of unborn children. This tiny nun  began her address by reading a portion of scripture. Then she stunned the assembled dignitaries which included President Clinton and the first lady and the Vice President and his wife by saying “The greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion.” Then she asked a great question. “For if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child how can we tell people they can’t kill each other?”

Chuck Colson wrote that Mother Teresa was polite and respectful yet she did not flinch in speaking the truth. She demonstrated civility wedded to bold conviction confronting world leaders with the message of biblical righteousness. Clearly she viewed the breakfast as a time to speak.

She continued, “Please don’t kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child.” After her speech she approached President Bill Clinton and pointed her finger at him and said, “Stop killing babies.”

Bl. Mother Teresa: “every abortion is the denial of receiving Jesus”

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Former US President Bill Clinton talks to a nun from Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata on Saturday.
— Reuters photo

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Woody Allen’s liberal political views come out in his films and his solution for peace is not realistic since he doesn’t recognize the Bible’s view of mankind’s fallen nature.

Mother Teresa said, “For if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child how can we tell people they can’t kill each other?” This demonstrated Mother Teresa’s understanding of what the Bible has to say about our sin nature since the fall in Genesis Chapter 3. Francis Schaeffer in his fine book about modern man ESCAPE FROM REASON  states,

“the True Christian position is that, in space and time and history, there was an unprogrammed man who made a choice, and actually rebelled against God…without Christianity’s answer that God made a significant man in a significant history with evil being the result of Satan’s and then man’s historic space-time revolt, there is no answer but to accept Baudelaire’s answer [‘If there is a God, He is the devil’] with tears. Once the historic Christian answer is put away, all we can do is to leap upstairs and say that against all reason God is good.”(pg. 81)

(Francis Schaeffer pictured below)

Christian scholar Ravi Zacharias has noted, “The key to understanding the Book of Ecclesiastes is the term ‘UNDER THE SUN.’ What that literally means is you lock God out of a closed system, and you are left with only this world of time plus chance plus matter.”

Woody Allen as an atheist could not hope to find a lasting meaning to his life in a closed system without bringing God back into the picture. This is the same exact case with Solomon in the Book of Ecclesiastes. Three thousand years ago, Solomon took a look at life “under the sun” in his book of Ecclesiastes.

Ecclesiastes 4:1 English Standard Version (ESV)

Evil Under the Sun

4 Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.

Let me make three points concerning the problem of evil and suffering. First, the problem of evil and suffering hit this world in a big way because of Adam and what happened in Genesis Chapter 3. Second, if there is no God then there is no way to distinguish good from evil and there will be no ultimate punishment for Hitler and Josef Mengele. (By the way Mengele never faced punishment and lived his long life out in peace.) Third. Christ came and suffered and will destroy all evil from this world eventually forever.

Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 English Standard Version (ESV)

A Time for Everything

3 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

(The Byrds rock band below)

This series deals with the Book of Ecclesiastes and Woody Allen films.  The first post  dealt with MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT and it dealt with the fact that in the Book of Ecclesiastes Solomon does contend like Hobbes  and Stanley that life is “nasty, brutish and short” and as a result has no meaning UNDER THE SUN.

The movie MIDNIGHT IN PARIS offers many of the same themes we see in Ecclesiastes. The second post looked at the question: WAS THERE EVER A GOLDEN AGE AND DID THE MOST TALENTED UNIVERSAL MEN OF THAT TIME FIND TRUE SATISFACTION DURING IT?

In the third post in this series we discover in Ecclesiastes that man UNDER THE SUN finds himself caught in the never ending cycle of birth and death. The SURREALISTS make a leap into the area of nonreason in order to get out of this cycle and that is why the scene in MIDNIGHT IN PARIS with Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Luis Bunuel works so well!!!! These surrealists look to the area of their dreams to find a meaning for their lives and their break with reality is  only because they know that they can’t find a rational meaning in life without God in the picture.

The fourth post looks at the solution of WINE, WOMEN AND SONG and the fifth and sixth posts look at the solution T.S.Eliot found in the Christian Faith and how he left his fragmented message of pessimism behind. In the seventh post the SURREALISTS say that time and chance is all we have but how can that explain love or art and the hunger for God? The eighth  post looks at the subject of DEATH both in Ecclesiastes and MIDNIGHT IN PARIS. In the ninth post we look at the nihilistic worldview of Woody Allen and why he keeps putting suicides into his films.

In the tenth post I show how Woody Allen pokes fun at the brilliant thinkers of this world and how King Solomon did the same thing 3000 years ago. In the eleventh post I point out how many of Woody Allen’s liberal political views come a lack of understanding of the sinful nature of man and where it originated.

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