Liberalism’s Impotency in Dealing with Guilt
Watch this brief clip from a recent episode of ER called “Atonement.” The clip features a man dying of cancer who is seeking atonement for past sins. His confrontation with a liberal chaplain says it all:
“I need answers! I want a real chaplain who believes in a real God and a real hell!”
Not bad for ER.
That was amazing. What that lady was saying is exactly what they teach us to say in med school. That way of counseling people on their death bed is completely impotent.
Comment by Brannon — February 17, 2008 @ 2:09 pm
Thanks for sharing this clip. I am amazed too - not bad for an ER episode.
Comment by Chris Giammona — February 17, 2008 @ 6:19 pm
WOW! I have stopped watching ER a long time ago. But if this is what the kind of programming they are making then I will have to start watching it again.
I am rather suprised since Michael Chrighton (sp?) is pretty liberal. I read one of his early medical fiction books and it had one story that really pushed abortion and the pro-choice agenda. He was always a very intruging story teller however. Even after he became too famous he still put out some good ones.
Comment by blackhaw — February 18, 2008 @ 8:23 am
I wouldn’t actually recommend this episode (or ER in general, for that matter)– at the end of this story, the doctor tells the old man that the good he has done (saving a boy from death) outweighs the bad he has done. “Let it count for whatever you need it to count for,” is I believe what the doctor says.
There is nothing about how we will never be good enough on our own, and nothing about the substitutionary atonement of Jesus. Nothing about Jesus at all, really.
Comment by sonneta — February 18, 2008 @ 10:07 am
I’m not recommending the episode or ER. Surely we don’t expect ER to give us the gospel. What I enjoyed though was the striking way in which the man rejected the liberal advice of his chaplain.
Comment by trevinwax — February 18, 2008 @ 10:11 am
Thanks Trevin for the Video Clip. I just posted it on my Blog as well. May we all be bold in sharing the gospel!
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This is a tremendous clip. Almost makes me want to break out and get a video machine for the church to show this at our time of confession during the service. This clip clearly shows man’s need for atonement in a way first of all you wouldn’t expect Hollywood to display but then in a way that clearly ought to cause all of us to reflect. People die eveyday and most people that I have been with at death really want to know the truth which shows clearly that all people know instinctively..innately…that they are not “good” and that they are in need of redemption. Whether they are of the the elect or not is not my call but what i have seen time and time again is the truth of how God’s truth is really written on the hearts of all men so that men truly are without excuse. This man’s need was not so much for this weak chaplain to get out as his need for redemption something that obviously eludes him as the show goes on. but he like all men realized that something was not right. All the “crap” that he had been taught or even said himself was being called in to question by his impending death. Another reason why there is so much to be learn in struggle and suffering than in prosperity. God’s word are written on the heart of men…all men. It is interesting that God’s truth comes out whether or not that was what the writers were aiming for or not. “I love it when a plan comes together.” Soli deo Gloria
In His Grip,
Mike Singenstreu
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