"Insight" TV Series: Hollywood Neo-Platonic German Catholic Priest Father Kieser Navigates 24 Years Of The Paradigm Shift Towards Global Governance

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The Hollywood Priest: Father Kieser encountered two Kabbalistic Gaia trips to India.

"Insight" American TV Series, 1960-1983 founder Hollywood Neo-Platonic German Catholic Priest Father Kieser, Second Vatican Commentator, Interfaith Adherent, Navigates 24 Years Of The Paradigm Shift Towards Global Governance

The Hollywood Priest dedicated his life towards, "illuminating the contemporary search for meaning, freedom and love. "

The Judaic Babylonian Talmud with its Neo-Platonic renaissance cancer bore much fruit in the dis-order of Christianity, very, very early on.

Infiltrating the Popes and Protestants of Europe soon it crossed the Atlantic in search of new human potential to wreak havoc and destruction in America.

Fast forward to the 20th Century and the 1950's was a petri-dish of laboratory post Eden thought with pre-modernist intentions.

Thus the purest vehicle to carry this plague was Catholic pre-modernist television; "Insight", the TV series. A sort of Twilight Zone with good morals feel good television. And all along the paradigm shift, the change of thought, gradually ate away the last defenses of humanity's Saviour, Jesus Christ.

Does today's 50 and 60 year old "Christians" remember? Nope. Its been de-programmed and dis-informed with other more suitable delicacy's. The memory hole was filled with the Eden caramel bitten apple of the 1960's and 1970's.

24 Years shifting the paradigm towards Global Governance and yes the Hollywood Priest was indeed honored and awarded for his illuminating transfigurative artistic endeavors.

Congratulate him in the Presence of The Lamb of God.

Surely, Spurgeon may have experienced the Downgrade Controversy in the Baptist Church of England, but the Downgrade Controversy in the Church of America has yet to be addressed.


NOTES:

Born in Philadelphia in 1929 and graduating from that city’s La Salle University in 1950, he joined the Paulist Fathers the same year. The Paulists are an order of Catholic priests dedicated to ministry to those outside their church through the media.

Paulist Father Ellwood (Bud) Kieser was the founder of Paulist Productions and the highly acclaimed television series Insight. Beginning in 1960 he worked in the entertainment community in Hollywood as a priest-producer, using television as a vehicle of spiritual enrichment.

In 1958, Father Kieser established an institute of adult education in theology intended for persons of all religions. He directed the institute until 1964.

In 1960, Kieser created Insight a television series designed to exploit the humanizing potential of television and use it as a vehicle of spiritual education.

In 1972 and 1973 "Insight" won the Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Religious Programming.

In 1973, Kieser received a Ph.D. in the theology of communication from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. His dissertation was titled “Cinema as Religious Experience.”

In 1981 through 1984 "Insight" won the Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Religious Programming.

Link http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053510/
Link http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/1999/rogers.html
Link http://www.paulist.org/history/notes_ellwood.php
Link http://www.paulistproductions.org/prod_insight.html
Link http://www.paulistproductions.org/founder1.html
Link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insight_%28TV_series%29
Link http://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Priest-Ellwood-E-Kieser/dp/0385419198

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Harry Potter Family Theme Park Unveiled. Universal Orlando Wins Secret Prize!

September 15, 2009, 11:04 am

Harry Potter Theme Park to Open in Spring

By Brooks Barnes

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the hotly anticipated new Florida theme park, will open in the spring and allow visitors to explore Hogwarts Castle, buy Quidditch equipment and drink Butterbeer.

Universal Orlando unveiled details of the park, a 20-acre addition to its Islands of Adventure property, on Tuesday in a video presentation on the Web. The resort, owned by NBC Universal, secured the theme park rights to J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books in May 2007 but has been silent about specific plans until now.

The so-called “theme park within a theme park” will be faithful to the visual landscapes of the Harry Potter films produced by Warner Brothers, which licensed the rights to Universal after a flirtation with the Walt Disney Company. “We’ve tried to include something from every book,” said Alan Gilmore, an art director for the films who is helping to oversee the theme park design.

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Universal offers some details on secretive Harry Potter theme park

• Posted on September 15, 2009 - 10:09 AM by Kevin Melrose

Who needs Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk when you have Harry Potter?

Amid speculation as to what Disney's announced $4-billion purchase of Marvel could mean to existing theme-park licenses, Universal Orlando today unveiled details for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, a 20-acre addition to its Islands of Adventure.

The rights to the $265-million "theme park within a theme park" were secured from author J.K. Rowling in 2007, but NBC Universal has managed to keep information about the project a secret.

Wizarding World, set to open next spring, is expected to give Islands of Adventure a much-needed boost. Despite popular theme rides like Jurassic Park and the Spider-Man and Hulk roller coasters, attendance has suffered, Media Decoder reports. About 5.3 million people visited the park in 2008, compared to 17 million at the nearby Magic Kingdom.

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Congratulations Rick Warren!!! America Has Chosen You To Be Her Pastor!! Ousting The Elder Billy Graham, Joel Olsteen And T.D. Jakes

Obama’s choice of evangelical leader sparks outrage

Posted: 07:12 PM ET

From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney

Warren is founder of the Saddleback Church.

(CNN) — Prominent liberal groups and gay rights proponents criticized President-elect Barack Obama Wednesday for choosing evangelical pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the presidential inauguration next month.

Warren, one of the most powerful religious leaders in the nation, has championed issues such as calling for the reduction of global poverty, human rights abuses, and the AIDS epidemic.

But the founder of the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, has also adhered to socially conservative stances — including his opposition to gay marriage and abortion rights that puts him at odds with many in the Democratic Party, especially the party's most liberal wing.

"[It's] shrewd politics, but if anyone is under any illusion that Obama is interested in advancing gay equality, they should probably sober up now," Andrew Sullivan wrote on the Atlantic Web site Wednesday.

People for the American Way President Kathryn Kolbert told CNN she is "deeply disappointed" with the choice of Warren, and said the powerful platform at the inauguration should instead have been given to someone who is "consistent mainstream American values.

"There is no substantive difference between Rick Warren and James Dobson," Kolbert said. "The only difference is tone. His tone is moderate, but his ideas are radical."

Dobson, a social conservative leader, is founder and chairman of Focus on the Family.

Linda Douglass, a spokeswoman for Obama, defended the choice of Warren, saying, "This is going to be the most inclusive, open, accessible inauguration in American history."

"The president-elect certainly disagrees with him on [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender] issues. But it has always been his goal to find common ground with people with whom you may disagree on some issues."

Douglass also noted Obama and Warren agree on several issues including advocating on behalf of the poor and the disadvantaged, and people who suffer from HIV/AIDS.

Warren's support of California's Proposition 8 — a measure that outlaws same sex marriage in the state — sparked the ire of many gay rights proponents earlier this fall.

Warren, who has made it a practice not to endorse candidates or political parties, wrote in October that the issue of gay marriage is not a political issue, but instead "a moral issue that God has spoken clearly about."

"For 5,000 years, every culture and every religion - not just Christianity - has defined marriage as a contract between men and women," Warren wrote in a newsletter to his congregation. "There is no reason to change the universal, historical definition of marriage to appease 2 percent of our population."

Warren also stirred controversy earlier this week when he told Beliefnet.com his grounds for opposing gay marriage laid primarily on his right of free speech.

"There were all kinds of threats that if [Proposition 8] did not pass then any pastor could be considered doing hate speech if he shared his views that he didn’t think homosexuality was the most natural way for relationships, and that would be hate speech."

Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights campaign, said Wednesday he feels "deep level of disrespect" over the choice of Warren and is calling on Obama to reconsider the move.

"By inviting Rick Warren to your inauguration, you have tarnished the view that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans have a place at your table," Solmonese said in an open letter to Obama that was released by his organization.

In his recent interview with Beliefnet, Warren also sparked outrage among supporters of abortion rights for criticizing those who have said abortion would be "safe and rare."

“Don’t tell me it should be rare," he said in the interview. "That’s like saying on the Holocaust, ‘Well, maybe we could save 20 percent of the Jewish people in Poland and Germany and get them out and we should be satisfied with that — I’m not satisfied with that. I want the Holocaust ended.”

But Warren, whose church attracts over 20,000 people a week, has widely been recognized for his attempts to expand the evangelical movement beyond socially conservative issues.

In the 2008 election, Warren hosted Obama and Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, at a candidate forum held in his church.

His book “The Purpose Driven Life” has sold over 20 million copies since it was first published five years ago, and Time Magazine named him one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in 2005.

"Many believe that Warren…is the successor to the [Rev. Billy Graham] for the role of America's minister," Time wrote in 2005.

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Rick Warren the new Billy Graham?

The Saddleback pastor will deliver the invocation at the inauguration, the Times reports.

Warren remains well to Obama's right on social issues, and he's taken some recent criticism on the questions of torture and same-sex marriage, but his presence is a sign that it's never too soon to start thinking about 2012, and that the optics of the inauguration are more about reaching out than about celebrating Democratic victory.

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Food Fight! Beliefnet Bloggers Debate Rick Warren

Wednesday December 17, 2008

Categories: Church, Politics, Theology, same sex marriage

There's a bit of an in-house dust-up here at Bnet over Steve Waldman's extensive interview with Rick Warren (VIDEO / TRANSCRIPT). Steve's posted on it a few times, as have others around the blogosphere.

But here in the friendly confines of Bnet, a couple of my peers are at odds over the Purpose-Driven (TM) Pastor's comments.


Paul Raushenbush takes umbrage at Warren's stereotype-driven dismissal of the social gospel, which Warren says, "was just Marxism in Christian clothing." Paul is the great-grandson of Walter Rauschenbush (they lost a "c" in one of those generations) -- and Walter was one of the founders of the so-called "social gospel" -- so Paul is understandably defensive at Rick's flippant denunciation of one of the 20th century's more signficant religious movements.


In the other corner, Scot McKnight comments on Paul's blog, calling his post "nit-pickingly silly" and goes on to comment that "Rick Warren is not the one to pick on." In his own post on the subject, Scot accuses the commenters on Paul's blog of being liberal fundamentalists, just as zealous and closed-minded as conservative fundamentalists.


For my part, I find myself in the middle. I agree with Paul: I have Rick Warren fatigue, too. It seems the only reason that he sat down with Steve, a true journalist, for an extended interview is that Rick's got a new addition to the Purpose-Driven (TM) Empire that he's hawking -- a book about Christmas. Now, far be it from me to object to an author trying to sell books, but this is a particularly big week for Rick: the book, the much-blogged-about interview, and now we hear that he will be praying the invocation at BO's inauguration. (This last bit, I'd like to believe, isn't an enormous pander on BO's part. But I just cannot see it any other way, and I do find it a disappointing choice.)


But I also agree with Scot that Rick's persistent work on social issues is noteworthy. In fact, it seems clear to me that Rick's concentration on fighting AIDS in Africa did a great deal to de-stigmatize that tyoe of work among many evangelicals.


I've never met Rick Warren. Back in 2000, his secretary called me and asked for a manuscript of the book I was writing. I don't know how he'd heard about it; and, at that time, he'd only written The Purpose-Driven Church, which sold a mere 1% of the 35+ million he's sold of PDL. I never heard if he liked -- or even read -- my book. But it was an odd phone call to receive.


Ultimately, I'm confounded by Rick Warren. I get that he has a certain brilliance, writing Christianity to the masses in a way I never will (on writing PDL, he told Charlie Rose, "I tried to make it very simple. . . . If I had a twenty-seven-word sentence, I'd try to make it down to nine.") He's obviously friendly and winsome -- in fact, I've met conservative rabbis who've sat under his tutelage regarding church/synagogue growth who rave about him.


But some of Rick's comments in this interview are so naive and theologically/philosophically/constitutionally unsophisticated that it worries me that he's being given Billy Graham's mantle as "America's pastor." For instance:

• If a pastor speaks out against same sex marriage, he can be accused of hate speech and denied his first amendment rights
• That same sex marriage is the moral equivalent to brother-sister incest.
• That he's got no answer to the problem of theodicy.
• That he thinks W engaged in torture, but since W never asked his opinion, he never shared it.
• His aforementioned caricature of the social gospel.
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I'm sure Rick means well, but I think that Obama and McCain set a dangerous precendent by having a summit on his stage. And I'd like to hope that "America's Pastor" will do some theological reflection on some of these issues.

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