God’s Not Dead as Philosophy: Trying to Prove God Exists

In The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy. Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 1435-1466 (2022)
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Abstract

The 2014 movie God’s Not Dead is a clear argument for the truth of its title; in other words, it is an argument that God exists. It does this, primarily, by having its protagonist, college freshman Josh Wheaton, present a number of arguments for God’s existence in front of his philosophy class. It is the purpose of this chapter to evaluate those arguments. In the end, we will see that the movie fails, pretty dramatically, at accomplishing its task, while also unfairly demonizing those who deny its thesis along the way.

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