is, what god wants, who god loves, who god hates.is catastrophic. >> and what is there to be done about that? >> it's difficult. it's difficult because, as i say, it's a cogtive tick. it's just how we think. but like any thought process, it can be broken, it can be disrupted. you have to begin to start thinking about god as bigger than yourself, bigger than your ideas, even about god, bigger than your religion, bigger than, you know, the way that you can even sort of conceive of the divine. that to me, by the way, is a more spiritually edifying way of existing. i feel like it allows for a much deeper sense of spiritual fulfillment, to have a god that's bigger than you, bigger than your religion, bigger than your ideas, bigger than your politics, bigger than your nation. that, i think, you know, is not just the right way to think, it's not just, i think, a more peaceful way to think, but i think it's a more spiritually satisfying way of thinking. >> what about this notion that -- how might i put this -- that god is smiling on us and f

did so well is god gives to all of us.ropriate in the nation's capital we have museums and monuments where people visit us around the world with the museum of the bible is built here. we are experiencing fantastic growth. with what goes up and up each and every year so to talk about the new destinations of washington d.c.. and to look at the museum of the bible as well. visitors come from all walks of life and faith traditions and replace of the world and with that wonderful journey with the additional landscape of washington d.c.. thanks for that wonderful endorsement of working with local government. so businesses come to washington d.c. to get things done working hand-in-hand all those in the philanthropic committee. congratulations. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen we're honored to have those with us this morning the israeli ambassador to the united states, a steadfast champion and partner at the museum of the bible. [applause] [speaking in native tongue] end david danced with all his might be for the al llord en dav

god bless.k. [applause] >> thank you. i am so honored and humbled am proud of the green family and everyone apart to bring this magnificent vision to reality. my prayer is that when people hear about this museum and people get a chance to experience it they will fall in love with our heavenly father this is a prayer called let them fall in love. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> please welcome back tony zeis. >> wow, cece. thank you so much for sharing that gift with us. you know, we're coming to the close, and i have to give some thanks to some people. there's so many people. the first thing i'm going to do is give a blanket thanks. if you had anything to do with this museum, i thank you for it. [laughter] [applause] i want to thank our stage guests for your participation, and i want to thank susan davis international and all of her staff. they were absolutely wonderful in creating and preparing for all of these events this week. yeah, hold your applause, because we've got a number th

that is god almighty.o it is righteous and rifle that we gather tonight, coming praying to god for healing and for help. why, asalso the reason governor of texas, i bring also a proclamation. this sunday,ng november the 12th, to be a day of prayer across the entire state of texas as we unite as one state. [applause] we pray for those who have been injured so that they may heal. we pray for the families who have lost a loved one. inthat they may be reunited heaven one of these days. we pray for all of the affected communities. that they may have the resilience to be strong in the ,ake of this horrific inexplicable evil. that in timesnow of tragedy texans come together. just two months ago in the aftermath of hurricane harvey will we saw texans coming together helping each other. it is what we do. we have seen it right here. in the seen it communities surrounding the , and theregion communities surrounding sutherland springs. thatve seen the way families have helped families, friends have helped friends, str

praise god.ice and it is a museum that celebrates the thing that i am most passionate about in my life because the word of god has enabled me to live on the cutting edge. the word of god is powerful. hebrews four: twelve says it is quick and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing the dividing asunder of bone and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the human heart. that is why the rabbi credit so slowly. it searches you more than you search it. it is a treasure for me. i pray the scriptures and our a day because i love to hear the voices of god reverberating in the corridors of my spirit. it has taught me it is possible to live on the cutting edge. we are facing challenging times. when people start using motor vehicles as weapons of mass destruction, when people defile the sanctity of the house of worship with automatic weapons we are living in challenging times. in ephesians six reminds us that there is the element of the demonic in our world. we wrestle not against flesh

jesus and me, god in me is not going to fight god in you. what they didn't know is basement of that stadium, 90,000 people praying for peace and peaceful transfer of power, those leaders were there. they decided in that meeting, we are not going to fight. we are going to lay down our arms. >> armstrong: purpose driven life, copies sold worldwide. you still can buy it online. don't go away. >> armstrong: welcome back to "the armstrong williams show," half the churches have a synagogue, have an institution, you go into the churches, find pedophile, out of wedlock, same issues. sometimes people cannot separate the laws from the individual from god. >> sure. >> armstrong: where is it that the church needs to see and the times. >> church needs to show love. blessed are the peacemakers, they'll be called children of god. we need to be bridge builders, not wall builders. bible calls us -- tells have the ministry of reconciliation. christ reconciled us to god. in our church, we maybe the most diverse church. my church speaks 64 languages. i preached

god bless you all, god bless texas, and may god forever be with the communities and families affected by this tragedy. [applause] >> now it is my honor to introduce the next speaker. a personal friend of mine, but a great american who cares dearly about the united states of america and the great state of texas. he is a man of demonstrated faith in god, but a man who has demonstrated commitment to our great state. he has been here on multiple occasions as fellow texans have suffered through other tragedies. he knows your heart and he cares about who you are as people, as communities, and as texans. i am proud to introduce, a friend of mine, the vice president of the united states of america, mike pence. [applause] vp pence: thank you, governor abbott, for those inspiring words. and for your and your wife cecilia's example of compassionate leadership for all the people of texas. karen and i are deeply humbled. humbled to be here tonight with all of you. with the governor, the lieutenant governor, with our attorney general, senator cruz, congressman heard and it is especially humbling to

i had a mother and father that would speak to me about god's word and from god's word and impart god's word in my life. even when i didn't want it or didn't understand it. i remember from my earliest days ing taught to memorize psalm 119-11. treasured ord have i in hi heart, why that i might not sin against you. as a young man, thoughts of sin in some cases were enticing but i'm glad that i had the opportunity to put scriptures in my life because ultimately, during the course of time, it truly did change my life. it brought me to the book of romans, where romans, third chapter, verse 23, it says, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of god. with that verse 10, my mother would say, tim, this book will keep you from sin or sin will keep you from this book. i found the truth of both of those statements. what i found there in romans 3:23, that we've all sinned, i identified with that. but it didn't end there. i went over a few pages to romans 5:8 where it said, but god demonstrated his own love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, christ died for us. those are words of s

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shouldn't have any impact on their relationship to god in him because of your god has for had this kindof like a daughter but luther was an impulsive and sometimes contradictory character. while he revered catalina and asked her to join him at the table he could be derogatory and insulting about women when in the company of other men. and i don't sign off in one lecture he said when it comes to adam and eve and god it's like this adam the man is like the sun eve is like the moon we know the sun shines on its own but the moon needs the light from another source to put it polemic like martin luther is saying adam is move god like than eve that's un-biblical of course but it shows that he's a child of his time and kings and that side of. the parish church and didn't back also contains clues about luther's variable relationship to women. the hymnal still contains the song lord christ the only son of god written by elizabeth cohen a former nun who married one of luther's students invent and she composed new religious songs and luther had one of her works included in the hymnal thereby honori

it is an active god. a god who makes the world, a god concerned with the world and who acts in it. and i've tried to show, too, that this notion of divine providence has a distinctly reformed cast to it. as i say, it evidently meant to witherspoon as it did to others that god governs all events. and the inclusion of protection of divine providence. that phrase in the declaration doubtless struck witherspoon as an appropriately pious reference to god's active care for his chosen people. there's even an oral tradition that witherspoon himself suggested the phrase be inserted into the declaration. and it must be true because that found its way into the musecome -- the musical of 1776. and since i've seen that on television, then it has to be true. [laughter] >> and i've this is where i get most of my knowledge of american history, from videos and things like that. and there's a reason for that. it's not entirely implausible. it is in oral tradition. like so many other oral traditions, we can't prove that, nor can be disprove it. but it makes sense. and it here's why it makes sense to

if there was a god let's say there is a good god there's no doubt about it there's a god and he created everything but there's no heaven would you still worship him if there was no prize at the end and the fact is you probably should he created everything but probably people would use the hypocrisy in atheism i don't think. there is a park or see when people stop preaching it too much or i started performing at a lot of religious conventions there's a thing as can well there's several of them all when i did several of them that were paying me like thirty forty thousand dollars to do a ten minute set always trying to think like this money so good that even if i find god i want to admit it to me so i play and the weird thing about all these professors and the richard dawkins and all these type of people they don't half dress like god they're always got long white hair and a wide beard and they're like there's no god and then they're getting a bit preachy i think many ideas have a god complex about themselves we're now going to show you a clip from the jim jeffries show watch everyone the

tower which i recorded the most important events in our cars life and his ancestors including the gods and mythological heroes. it was earlier succeeded through the christian era after a reign of almost seventy years that a col stepped over into the realm of the dead in the temple we conceal his route to the underworld under islam steps led down to park house crypt in the base of the pyramid the tombs of our kings were rarely found and it was a long time to archeologists discover the remains of. their whereabouts remained a secret until one thousand nine hundred forty nine by then he had long been among the immortals and the vessels containing provisions for his journey to the realm of the shades were of course empty. on the side of parkour sarcophagus lid i recorded the dates of his birth and death and the dates when his father died his grandfather and seven of his predecessors on the throne. this stocco him for trey's the king at the height of his reign. more a death mask crafted of jade over his body lay a heavy slab and on it i inscribed words the truth of which we took for granted

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so help me god. a man. luther's appearance before the diet of alms went down in history is a turning point in european history but luther didn't have the benefit of hindsight he dared to stand up to the most powerful man on the planet perhaps because he knew he wasn't alone. in the luther knew he had a far reaching social reform movement beyond him and that enabled him to act the way he did involves in volves in the towns we have the support of the middle class the intellectual elite associated with the humanists online as well as to a degree that the backing of the imperial nightstand and a portion of the clergy supported him to die it is clear was all this coincided with the calculated use of a nascent power of the media the battle to shape public opinion began involves. it was the first propaganda war in european history fought by followers and opponents of the reform of the friar from a german backwater became an international household name one placed on an equal footing with the pope in the fight for

like it was when god made moses, a god over pharaoh. >> yes, sir. mr. farrakhan: and made aaron his prophet or messenger to the people. i've been among you a long time. [applause] mr. farrakhan: and i have not failed you in warning you of what the government of the united states of america has been planning against black people generally but black youth in particular and the nation of islam. now, you may not have been listening but you'll listen today. because we're at the end of this now. [applause] i had to think about this. reagan met with the joint chiefs of staff, okay, in early september. wow, who's the war against? he didn't say. that was for me to study. but the formula was so deep, i went on a tour, world tour, and while i was in africa -- boy, america, you have been something because you knew when you heard me in '84 that elijah was back and he was back in that young man that was talking. he's back today. [applause] mr. farrakhan: and now in the fullness of these 32 years i'm going to run real quick over six presidents that have met with their

may god bless the united states of america and all of the american heroes we honor today and may godo still stand at the ready and may he give us the wisdom to do what right for tomorrow. thank you, we're honored to be service veteran organization. thank you very much. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please the honorable david j. shulkin, secretary of veterans affairs. [applause] >> it's great to see all of you on this wonderful veterans day. mr. vice president, mrs. pence, medal of honor recipient brian thacker, secretary shulkin, mattis -- [reading names] the representatives of our veterans service organizations, assembled our armedmembers of forces, v.a. colleagues, other distinguished guests, ladies and leftemen, i don't think i anybody out. the department of veteran missions: two main to honor the dead and care for the living in accordance with promise made by president abraham lincoln in his inond inaugural address 1865. we at v.a. keep that promise 365 year. in this past year we've made great progress to also keeping trump's promise to veterans, strengthening our ability t

and he prayed that god god father would yield -- healed wounds. we find ourselves divided so many ways. i think that prayer still very apropos for our time. what way do you think we could bring healing this season? >> when our gratitude takes the form of humility, and recognizing that we are all in ways we don't know, dependent on the grace of god, that could be unifying. when our gratitude takes the form of service. reaching out, tepid out serving another human being, that could be unifying. when our gratitude takes the form of praise. every one of us have something similar to praise god. the praise can be unifying as well >> in a word things giving itself, we just say thanks to everyone. when you go into the supermarket just think take you to the checker. the person you are asking for help, the person is being paid but they are also providing a service. sometimes we take those things for granted. whether it is the barber, the beautician, just to be able to say thank you.>> that's all we can say. that is a great prayer. >> the other piece is you

may god bless the united states of america and all of the american heroes we honor today and may godo still stand at the ready and may he give us the wisdom to do what right for tomorrow. thank you, we're honored to be service veteran organization. thank you very much. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please the honorable david j. shulkin, secretary of veterans affairs. [applause] >> it's great to see all of you on this wonderful veterans day. mr. vice president, mrs. pence, medal of honor recipient brian thacker, secretary shulkin, mattis -- [reading names] the representatives of our veterans service organizations, assembled our armedmembers of forces, v.a. colleagues, other distinguished guests, ladies and leftemen, i don't think i anybody out. the department of veteran missions: two main to honor the dead and care for the living in accordance with promise made by president abraham lincoln in his inond inaugural address 1865. we at v.a. keep that promise 365 year. in this past year we've made great progress to also keeping trump's promise to veterans, strengthening our ability t

praise god for whom all blessings flow. all of the blessings that we receive come from god and so we have to be conscious. we have to be able to recognize those blessings. whether we do or not, god is in the blessing business. >> thank you both for that. i think someone said that god's gift to us is the day he gives us. but our gift to him is what we do with that day. so appreciate both of your comments. we'll be back with jim and dale on thanksgiving. >>> welcome back to our theme on thanksgiving. we've been speaking with jim and dale. the fourth thursday of the month would be, i should say the last sunday of november would be thanksgiving. he said it in the mist of civil war, and he was also praying for those who were wounded and those who would become orphans. during this terrible time in our history, and he prayed that god, father he called would heal the wounds. and we find ourselves quite divided in so many ways. so i think that prayer is for our time. we find ourselves so divided. what ways do you think we can bring

he did say how can you be angry at god if you don't believe in god? and i thought, oh, that's an interesting question. [laughter] i did. and then i had this idea to start the web site -- >> well, let's stop here -- >> yeah, okay. >> -- for to a moment. you started the web site at around the same time that your husband, ben bradley -- the great editor of "the washington post," someone we all love -- began to fail. and you did what many journalists often do, you began sort of a journalistic exploration of something that was maybe more personal than you ever really were willing to admit. >> right. >> let's talk about that, but let's talk a little bit more about ben first. >> okay. >> okay, well finish. >> no, you -- >> i'll just say that ben developed dementia. ben died it'll be three years week after next, but he had been diagnosed eight years before that. well, i had never actually put that together, elsa, but it was the year that he was diagnosed that i started the religion web site. and i had all of this reading that i'd been doing. i thought that we

is god trying to tell us something? my response is no. god is not trying to tell us something.elling us something. that god doesn't have to attempt or try anything. he is speaking through nature. the father of the reformation by the name of marthen luther said that when nature speaks, god speaks. and that if we can through his creation, and that the activities that we're witnessing now have any import or meaning at all is that there is a message behind these storms. and not only the hurricane, not only hurricane harvey and hurricane irma but also the earthquake that struck in mexico in between those two storms. the point is that if we look at the whole course that the hurricanes take, the pathway, through the middle passage, there's a message even there. there's a message even when we look at how we have not become the stewards of this creation, the whole challenge of genesis, the first book of the bible in genesis chapter one verses 26 through 28 is not only that god has created us in his own divine image and likeness, but he has made us the stewards, the trustees, the lords o

god bless you. god bless the commonwealth of virginia. god bless the united states of america. thank u [applause] -- thank you. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. isit ncicap.org] >> hello, virginia! what a day in the commonwealth of virginia. about 10 minutes ago i received a gracious call, i wished him well. i thanked him for his service.

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i do not know if there is no god.longer believe in the god of my childhood, a deity who sends his son down to crucify for my sins. i feel like there is something a lot bigger than us. i don't know what it is. i don't have a word for it. i will not presume to describe it. it is ineffable. it is very hard for me to take that step into atheism. i certainly am moving in that direction, but for me, in my life, it is still hard to say there is nothing. is it not hard for you partly because you live in a society in the united states of america where it is quite difficult to be a very public figure who says, i am an atheist? you are right, but it is getting easier to step out and say that. in america today? ok, so, today, we have strange things going on in america. i considered writing the trump code, but it is too unbelievable, even for me. it is easy to smile, but it is also easy perhaps for an american to be alarmed at the state of your nation today. are you? of course i am. one of the challenges with religion is reading m

if there was a god let's say there is a god there's no doubt about it there's a god and he created everything but there's no heaven would you still worship him if there was no prize at the end and the fact is you probably should he created everything but probably people would use the hypocrisy in atheism i don't think. there is a park or sea when people start preaching it too much or i started performing at a lot of religious ideas conventions there's a thing as can well there's several of them all when i did several of them that were paying me like thirty forty thousand dollars to do a ten minute set i'm always trying to think like this money so good that even if i find god i want to admit it to me so i play and the weird thing about all these professors and the richard dawkins and all these type of people they don't half dress like god they're always got long white hair and a wide beard and they like there's no god and then they're getting a bit preachy i think many ideas have a god complex about themselves we're not going to show you a clip from the jim jeffries show watch everyone the big

i was a god if god spoke german yes i tell you yes. yeah how else would he have understood your prayers he had to be the first one god has understood them and he has ons of them done on their hearts yet. is that's also true for the prayers of us doesn't he said about one. the peasants expected luther to side with them. god turned out he bought god also he is the peasants and he sees the injustice done to them. but fighting injustice with injustice is not a goal is will it's the will of the devil puts. luther distanced himself from the peasants when violence broke out in may fifteen twenty five they also targeted members of the high in ability. yes this is now it's your turn count. you to meet your judgement hasn't so be it go. to bloodshed triggered a radical change of heart a new found female soul the devil at work and even appeal to the gym and princes to crush the peasants. let whoever can stab strangle and kill them like mad dogs. luther described the war against the peasants as a battle against the forces of evil. the decisive bat

today the style of the russian adam god is back in demand. and building is a perfect example of that for decades it was allowed to fall into ruin now it's finally being restored with keen attention to historical detail. when the work is complete the building will be returned to its former glory as a model of the finished project charles moskos design aficionados will be able to live here if they can afford to. it's a legacy the revolutionaries of a century ago might never have anticipated. and that's all from arts twenty one next week we head for one of the most important arch. the venice biennale it's almost over but you don't have to go yourself our special edition all the highlights until then and. what is the truth. what is a lie. what information is reliable. we are all besieged online my opinion and by. real and fake what does that mean for journalism. true times. with the media. when cities are english by the. sea. and costly protective measures with. nothing. challenging our future starting november ninth on d w. what does a football

may god bless the united states of america and all of the american heroes we honor today and may godstill stand at the ready to give us the wisdom to do what is right for tomorrow. we are honored to be the host veterans organization. thank you very much. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please the honorable david j shulkin, secretary, veterans affairs. .> thank you it is great to see all of you on this wonderful veterans day. mr. vice president, mrs. pence, medal of honor recipient, secretary mnuchin, secretary mattis, secretary zinke e, acting secretary hagan, deputy bowman. secretary shanahan, general dunford, general salvo, former v.a. secretary jim peak. korean veterans association and representatives of our veterans service organizations. assembled veterans, v.a. colleagues, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. i do not think i've left anybody else. the department of army engineers of two missions, to honor the dead and care for the living. in accordance with a solemn promise made by abraham lincoln in his second inaugural address, we at the v.a. keep that promise 365

music: rouse. # god save our gracious queen long live our noble queen # god save the queen # send herus # long to reign over us # god save the queen. # the queen bowels and leaves the balcony and the members of the royal family leave whitehall led by prince charles, who laid that wreath on behalf of the queen. now the clergy will leave next. they line up, led by doctor charters, the dean of the chapel royal —— dr chartres, and the children of the chapel royal. the choir used to follow the sovereign around the country in tudor times singing, and 110w country in tudor times singing, and now sings here in london every week in the chapel royal or the queens chapel, that was built by james the first. six gentlemen in ordinary and ten children of the royal chapel. and then the politicians, those serving today, and behind them the second group former prime ministers, john major is here, tony blair, gordon brown, david cameron. the new secretary of state for defence, govan williamson —— gavin williamson there, who will go out onto horse guard to take the salute of those who pass the cenotaph.

or not you said there is no god because there's no evidence for an a.o.s. so i said there's no evidence yes an agnostic says no evidence and not a tick says i don't know what i want in the show and what's another atheist or agnostic i do want to show i'll be willing to look in your christian i had claim there is a purpose to where my not only did i knew a little not a divine purpose fair enough let me ask you both to look at your crystal balls and say it is ten twenty thirty years from now are we going to have fewer believers in the world are we doing belief is on a downward trajectory do we think religion is dying are we outgrowing it or not no we're not growing faith we're not growing belief because here's the thing as i think a lot of people and perhaps lawrence is one of them seems to believe that science can replace faith that if we can prove certain things then people will stop believing in them but the fact of the matter is is that religion has always been in a state of evolution when we discovered that the earth was not the center of the universe ch

oh my god!> jennifer: name five movies jennifer lawrence has been in. >> with you in front of me i can't think of any! >> jennifer: can you name five jennifer lawrence movies? >> oh, gosh. please -- >> jennifer: lady, for the love of god -- >> i know, i know, i've seen -- i know your movies -- >> jennifer: did you see that mov movie? >> no. >> jennifer: no? didn't see it? >> no. >> jennifer: did you know who jennifer lawrence is? this is the worst day of my life. >> jennifer lawrence. nope. >> jennifer: hey. >> hey, what's up? >> jennifer: what's up? do you smoke weed? >> sometimes. >> jennifer: yeah? >> yeah. >> jennifer: when you smoke weed, do you ever watch jennifer lawrence movies? >> no. >> jennifer: cool. me neither. can you name five jennifer lawrence movies? >> five jennifer lawrence movies? >> jennifer: i know. who is that bitch? >> jennifer aniston could i tell you. >> jennifer: jennifer aniston is way lert than jennifer lawrence, do you agree? >> yeah. >> jennifer: much better. >> i

islam and science with physicist and atheist lawrence krauss and reza aslan author of the new book god a human history. is religion a force for good or evil a controversial question i know but one you just can't avoid in the modern world from violence and terror to gender equality to science reason and education the faithful and the faithless tend to repeatedly clash over whether religion is a net positive or negative whether it helps humanity more than it said joining me today to debate all this on a special edition of the show are reza aslan a scholar of religion and bestselling author he just released his latest book god in human history and from chicago lawrence krauss a theoretical physicist and atheist and bestselling author of numerous books on science including his latest offering the greatest story ever told so far thank you both for joining me from reza let's start with you you've got a new book out god a human history you're a muslim you're an academic someone who studies religions up close and personal what conclusions have you arrived at over your life and your career ther