Actor Mark Wahlberg is making news, not for a movie he made but for one he regrets making.
Wahlberg, a committed Catholic Christian, was recently in Chicago to support Bishop Blase Cupich’s work in drawing young people into the church. The actor admitted: “I just always hope that God is a movie fan and also forgiving, because I’ve made some poor choices in my past.” Asked if he’d ever prayed for forgiveness for any particular movies, he added, “‘Boogie Nights‘ is up there at the top of the list.”
For those of us who have not seen that movie (and I hope that’s all of us), the film is a pornographic depiction of the porn industry. Wahlberg is right to ask God’s forgiveness for making it.
But that’s not the reaction his confession is receiving in the secular press. Esquire calls Boogie Nights “an excellent movie” and claims that Wahlberg should seek forgiveness for “about two dozen” of his other films first. People magazine agrees, professing surprise that Wahlberg chose this movie over some of his other films.
Meanwhile, researchers at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, have published a new report stating that the universe shouldn’t exist.
The current scientific model for the birth of the universe claims that equal parts of matter and antimatter were produced by the Big Bang. However, matter and antimatter annihilate each other. Since they were produced in equal amounts, nothing should exist today. This new study made the most precise measurements ever, but could not find an explanation for this mystery.
Of course, Genesis 1 offers a different approach.
In life, as in carousels, where we get on is usually where we get off. If we embrace a naturalistic worldview, we will not consider spiritual realities. The “law of the instrument,” as explained by psychologist Abraham Maslow: “It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
It’s not…
