A Christian ( pronunciation (help·info), (from the Ancient Greek: Χριστιανός Christianos) is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament. "Christian" derives from the Koine Greek word Christ, a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term Messiah.
Central to the Christian faith is the gospel, the teaching that humans have hope for salvation through the message and work of Jesus, and particularly, his atoning death on the cross. Christians also believe Jesus is the Messiah prophesied in the Hebrew Bible. Most Christians believe in the doctrine of the Trinity ("tri-unity"), a description of God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This includes the vast majority of churches in Christianity, although a minority are Non-trinitarians.
The term "Christian" is also used adjectivally to describe anything associated with Christianity, or in a proverbial sense "all that is noble, and good, and Christ-like." It is also used as a label to identify people who associate with the cultural aspects of Christianity, irrespective of personal religious beliefs or practices.
Christian Charles Philip Bale (born 30 January 1974) is an English actor. Best known for his roles in American films, Bale has starred in both big budget Hollywood films and the smaller projects from independent producers and art houses.
Bale first caught the public eye at the age of 13, when he was cast in the starring role of Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (1987). He played an English boy who is separated from his parents and subsequently finds himself lost in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. He is also notable for his role as serial killer Patrick Bateman in American Psycho (2000), and for portraying Bruce Wayne/Batman in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and the upcoming finale The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
In 2010, Bale portrayed Dicky Eklund in the biopic The Fighter. He received critical acclaim for his role and won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role.
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941), known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.
Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982 he introduced an influential concept into evolutionary biology, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms.
Dawkins is an atheist, a vice president of the British Humanist Association, and a supporter of the Brights movement. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. In his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion—"a fixed false belief." As of January 2010 the English-language version has sold more than two million copies and had been translated into 31 languages.
George Pell AC (born 8 June 1941) is an Australian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the eighth and current Archbishop of Sydney, serving since 2001. He previously served as auxiliary bishop (1987–96) and archbishop (1996–2001) of the Archdiocese of Melbourne. He was created a cardinal in 2003.
Pell was born in Ballarat, Victoria, to George Arthur and Margaret Lillian (née Burke) Pell. His father, a non-practising Anglican whose ancestors were from Leicestershire in England, was a heavyweight boxing champion; his mother was a devout Catholic of Irish descent.[page needed] During World War II, his father served in the Australian Defence Force.[page needed] His sister, Margaret, became a violinist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. As a child, he underwent 24 operations to remove an abscess in his throat.[page needed]
Pell received his early education at Loreto Convent and at St. Patrick's College, both in his native Ballarat. One of his classmates at St Patrick's was Paul Bongiorno.[page needed] At St Patrick's, Pell played as a ruckman on the first XVIII from 1956 to 1959. He even signed to play with the Richmond Football Club. However, his ambitions later turned to the priesthood. Speaking of his decision to become a priest, Pell once said, "To put it crudely, I feared and suspected and eventually became convinced that God wanted me to do His work, and I was never able to successfully escape that conviction."[page needed]
Michael Dale "Mike" Huckabee (born August 24, 1955) is an American politician who served as the 44th Governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. He was a candidate in the 2008 United States Republican presidential primaries, finishing second in delegate count and third in both popular vote and number of states won (behind both John McCain and Mitt Romney). He won the Iowa Republican caucuses. Huckabee exited the race as McCain became the presumptive Republican nominee after winning the delegate-rich winner-take-all states of Florida, California, and New York.
Huckabee is the author of several best selling books, an ordained Southern Baptistminister, musician and a public speaker. He is also an ABC Radio political commentator. He and his wife, Janet, have been married for over 37 years and have three grown children: John Mark, David, and Sarah. Janet Huckabee was an unsuccessful candidate for Arkansas Secretary of State in 2002.
Huckabee currently hosts the Fox News Channel talk show Huckabee. Starting April 2, 2012 he will host The Mike Huckabee Show from noon until 3 pm weekdays for Cumulus Media Networks.
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On the eve of a looming family reunion, Christian's estranged father unexpectedly shows up at his door asking for help. Despite abandoning the family at the onset of his wife's terminal illness , Dr. Lynn claims he can justify his nine-year absence. Christian reluctantly agrees to escort his father into a hostile family environment, but his grief-fueled drug addiction sends an already tense family dynamic reeling.
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Christian is a writer, that's all he has ever wanted to be, and all he knows. Without it, he feels worthless. When Christian sits down to write the finale to his masterpiece, he starts to have doubts over killing off his leading lady and greatest creation, Regan. But when Regan starts speaking to him, she helps him finish the story and let go - realising he attached more to her meaning than he first imagined.
Like a puppet master the writer controls his characters... but who's really in control?
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Every morning an antelope awakes in Africa and knows in order to survive it must run faster than every lion. Every morning a lion awakes in Africa and knows he must run faster than the slowest antelope. Do you know what this means? Martin works hard for his success - 14 up to 16 hours every day. The job claims absolute flexibility, change of places and projects several times a week, as well as a permanent availability for the costumers. Martin pushes the limits of his physical and mental ability. By and by the boarders between countries and time zones as well as work and private life begin to dissolve.
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For six young men, who could hardly be more different from one another, the fan club of the Eintracht Braunschweig football club is the center of their life and their friendship. 66/67 is the name of their club as well as the year in which Eintracht Braunschweig won the German Championship.
Keywords: number-in-title
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Chile 1980, under military dictatorship. Three young people meet, become friends, and together uphold the "Independent Republic." This is a utopian concept for a better world conceived by Guillermo, one of the three friends, as a reaction to the savage capitalism imposed by the dictatorship. The other two characters, Fernando and Isabel eventually marry. Al three characters' private lives and ideals begin to shift, and Fernando in particular prospers, spurred on by his "Enthusiasm." The ensuing story is the bulk of the plot. The development and outcome of Fernando's enthusiasm, and the impact of the human being's shifting goals and ideals all lead to the eventual conclusion of this Chilean/Spanish co-production.
Keywords: ambition, atacama-desert, childhood-friend, chile, chile-northern, drug-dealer, enthusiasm, female-nudity, greed, idealist
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Steven Callahan is a well respected therapist who has just taken on a new patient named Christian. Christian is an aspiring fashion photographer who suffers from a series of bizarre and violent fantasies. As the fantasizes become more vivid Steven becomes more suspicious. Simultaneously, foul mouth detective Tim Poroski is faced with a series of bizarre disappearances of several male models. As the plot tightens Steven and Christian become involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse that leads to a wildly unpredictable conclusion.
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After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both bandits and revolutionaries, as they try to lead their friends and kin to safety.
Keywords: adopted-son, ambush, american-civil-war, anger, arson, bandit, based-on-novel, battle, battlefield, beating
Shortgrub: You ain't expecting trouble, are you John Henry?::Col. John Henry Thomas: Trouble? Well, let's see... We got Maximilian on one hand and Juarez on the other, and bandits in between. And on top of that, we're Americans in Mexico taking a cavvy of horses to a very unpopular government. Why should we expect trouble?
[McCartney is dying]::Shortgrub: McCartney.::McCartney: Mr. McCartney. Shortgrub, I said a lot of mean things to the boys, didn't I?::Shortgrub: Yeah, you did.::McCartney: Tell them from me, I meant every damn word.
Col. James Langdon: If I can find the time, I'm going to sit down and write the social history of bourbon.
Ann Langdon: You went out there to talk, why did you have to shoot the man?::John Henry Thomas: Conversation kinda dried up, ma'am.
D.J. Giles: Wait a minute! I didn't do anything!::John Henry Thomas: You should have!
[Union Captain allows last escaping wagon to cross river]::Yankee sergeant at river: Sir, I don't mean to...::Union Capt. at river: I know, sergeant! But if I can't have the whole dog, I don't want the tail!::Yankee sergeant at river: Yes, sir.
Col. John Henry Thomas: [Thomas and Langdon are talking to the Mexican bandit] Is the flap on your holster snapped or unsnapped, my Confederate friend?::Col. James Langdon: Snapped, my Yankee friend.::Col. John Henry Thomas: Then, I guess I'm his pigeon. [Draws and fires as the Mexican goes for his gun]
Col. James Langdon: [on finding his men still in uniform] General Robert E. Lee surrendered, am I right?::Capt. Anderson: Yes, sir.::Col. James Langdon: That means that officially we no longer exist as an armed body; yet everywhere I look here today I see armed men, wearing uniforms and flying the battle flag! Get it down!
Col. John Henry Thomas: [Thomas has just learned that the war ended several days before] Major, I've just received word that Lee surrendered to Grant three days ago.::Maj. Sanders, CSA: Yes, sir.::Col. John Henry Thomas: You knew it?::Maj. Sanders, CSA: We received the news yesterday.::Col. John Henry Thomas: I don't think you understand, Major, the war is over.::Maj. Sanders, CSA: NO, sir.::Col. John Henry Thomas: Are you telling me that you intend to keep fighting?::Maj. Sanders, CSA: Haven't we just proven it, sir?::Col. John Henry Thomas: But why?::Maj. Sanders, CSA: Because this is our land, and you're on it.::Col. John Henry Thomas: We're all Americans.::Maj. Sanders, CSA: Yes, sir... that's always been the saddest part of it.::Col. John Henry Thomas: Good day, sir.::Maj. Sanders, CSA: Colonel, thank you for your courtesy.
[during a tryst with Charlotte, she tells him she's sixteen]::Blue Boy: I like that you're so young. It gives us more time to be together.::[kisses her]