Posted on 09/20/2011 8:59:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The evangelist producer of an online documentary to be released this upcoming Sunday has high hopes that the film showing eight pro-abortion young adults change to a pro-life stance in just moments after being asked a question goes viral.
The 33-minute documentary called “180” is produced by Ray Comfort and his ministry, Living Waters. Even after watching the film’s trailer on it’s website, viewers are left with no clues as to what question was asked or what exactly prompted eight people to change their views on abortion.
Comfort told The Christian Post that in the process of making the film he asked a question that was “so powerful that it not only changed the people’s minds about abortion, and made them do a 180 (degree turn in viewpoint), but it made them do a 180 when it comes to their own eternal salvation.”
When asked by CP, the preacher who is also known for challenging atheists in one-on-one debates and street preaching in Huntington Beach, Calif., did not reveal the question he asked. Comfort said that with the help of Christians, "180" has a good chance of going viral.
“The reason this film is unique is that we have eight young people who change their minds from being pro-abortion to pro-life in a matter of seconds because of one question I ask them,” he said. “On the video you will actually see a neo-Nazi, a very nasty neo-Nazi, named Steve, who is anti-Christian, an anti-God atheist, who is probably pro-everything evil, loves Adolf Hitler, hates blacks, hates Jews, hates America, do a complete 180 to the point to where you actually like the guy because he starts talking about his own eternal salvation.”
Comfort said the documentary is very gripping and captivating, and as one pastor who has seen the film said, “You don’t watch 180, you experience it.”
“For me to tell you what the question is would steal your experience because you’ve got to see the facial expressions change,” Comfort said. “You’ve got to see the people, when they are asked a question, change from one of a hard look in their facial expression to suddenly, a light going off as they change their minds and realize how evil abortion is just with the one question.”
The video for the movie was initially intended to be a free DVD supplement for a book Comfort wrote called, “Hitler, God, and the Bible.”
“The video went in a direction I never intended it to,” he said. “It became a pro-life movie, much to our surprise.”
The documentary starts off by showing “14 college students who haven’t got a clue who Adolf Hitler is,” Comfort said. “It swings from there into the pro-life message in a very subtle and interesting way to the point where you can not look away because of the scenario where the people are placed in the video.” In addition to the film being available for free online at 180movie.com beginning Sunday, Comfort plans to do give 200,000 DVD copies of the film to 100 colleges in the U.S.
“We are absolutely delighted that finally Christians can do something concrete when it comes to this very emotional and divisive issue of abortion,” he said. “They can just give this video out to someone.”
Comfort related to the CP how some YouTube videos, such as “Charlie bit my finger,” can garner phenomenal viewing number in the hundreds of millions. He sees no reason his film can not have the same kind of astronomical numbers and result in a major social shift.
“We’d like to see this film go viral because if you can change what a person believes about abortion you are going to change the way they vote, and that can change the direction of this nation and this nation surely can be turned back to God,” he said. “A lot of people have (already) said this will turn the nation back to God with His help.”
I don’t know what questions are asked on the video but I do recall a conversation I had years ago with a friend who has gone from pro-choice to pro-life. It went like this...
Me - “do you believe you are more than just flesh and blood? In other words, do you believe you have a soul?”.
Friend - “yes, of course”.
Me - “When do you suppose you acquired your soul, was it at the moment you emerged from your mother’s womb or could it have happened earlier?”.
Friend - “I really don’t know”.
Me - “Since it could have happened before you were born, even as early as the moment you were conceived, can we really disregard babies in the womb as something less than persons with a soul?”
Friend - (silence).
I don’t know when the transformation was complete, but I’d like to think the seeds of doubt were planted in that discussion.
Hey there. :)
I grew up in a family that was insanely crazy about and protective of babies and their moms and dads. So feminism’s mentality always seemed upside down to me.
...but you do like Jeff, right?
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What were the questions, Marie?
Money, votes and power over others. Yes, for progressives, it is just that simple. They are not happy without all of the three.
no, silly -
what was the “180” question?
It went something like this:
he: (after establishing that I was pro-choice) would you ever have an abortion?
me: no
he: why not?
me: I couldn’t kill a child of mine.
he: alright. Would you kill your mother?
me: no!
he: why not.
me: it’s murder
he: is it alright, in your eyes, for me to kill my own mother?
me: no
he: why not?
me: it’s murder (duh)
he: so it’s murder for you to kill your mother and also murder for me to kill my mother, right?
me: yes....?
he: then why, if it’s murder for you to kill your own baby, is it not murder for me to kill mine?
me: oh....
he: murder is murder, no matter how you look at it. you can call it by a different name, play with the idea, try to justify it; but, in the end, when you take another innocent human life, it’s murder. there’s no way out of that fundamental truth.
In retrospect, he had me before the conversation started. I’d always wanted to be a mother and already identified with my un-conceived children. I watched my mother grieve the loss of her miscarried children as if they were known.
So his arguments made perfect sense to me. Sometimes things really are black and white.
I'm sorry, but I have to obtain written permission from Living Waters to discuss it any further.
I will say, though, that I wouldn’t use Comfort’s line of questioning myself. Some of the methods I’ve read in this thread would be much more effective.
“When asked by CP, the preacher who is also known for challenging atheists in one-on-one debates...”
Ray Comfort is something of a doofus who - with Kirk Cameron as his sidekick - lost a televised debate against a couple of young atheists. He’s a twit and a grandstander.
Not braindead. Educated in government schools.
lol....1973...a hippie commune of sorts in the Black River swamp owned by some eccentric Delta gentry...they lived between cotton fields the size of a county wealth and Amsterdam..
after a hard night of skinny dipping and Psilocybin and finally crashing on hard wood floors around 4AM only to be awakened around 8AM by this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUHy_TfkN38&feature=related at Volume (11) on a McIntosh tube amp that weighed 100 pounds and Klipschorn monster speakers 10 feet away
you had to be there...so yep...me and Jeff go back a ways...his Yardbird work is the best too..imo
I’m listening to it right now...irony of ironies..on Klipsch desktop speakers
I came across him at HB and he was debating an atheist.
I had heard about Ray and how “good” he was. I walked away ver unimpressed.
Saw JB only once -- at the "ARMS concert" (a Ronnie Lane benefit concert) in '83 at the L.A. Forum. Clapton, Page, Beck, Winwood, and Cocker. Helluva show.
Some of his prog-rock (post mid-'70s) stuff was alright, but like you I far prefer the earlier bluesy Beck. At the ARMS show he mostly played material from his There and Back album ('81). His last decent album, imo.
"Going Down" -- an all time classic. Haven't heard it in ages. High volume-only listening. The best version I ever heard was live at a small club in Santa Cruz in '86 at a Buddy Guy & Jr. Wells show. They tore the damn roof off the joint.
lol...getting blasted off the floor by "Goin' Down" in the early morn' while sleeping off a Psilly night could get the ole blood going.
54 with 9 dependents...I don’t even smoke ganja any more even though I have steady access to the best “shatter” in the US for free if I wanted it
once upon a time pot for me was like a dreadlock...all day affair from ages 14-23
shatter oil is resin like hash oil made from domestic high potency pot...comes in around 80% THC so they say
rarely drink either..
only one drug for me..on my homepage...5 foot 105 lbs blonde..she’s held up well
I have to be able to function..so much going on...I never just chill out except late at night on FR or watching some man TV stuff like hunting, war, deadliest warrior, anthropology or girls...when I was young I could smoke dope and just watch TV for hours, get my college work done and think about the future
well the future done came and went..lol..and I grabbed on
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