God's Not Dead

God's Not Dead is a 2014 Christian drama film directed by Harold Cronk, and stars Kevin Sorbo, Shane Harper, David A.R. White and Dean Cain. The film was released to theaters on March 21, 2014, by Pure Flix Entertainment.

Josh Wheaton (Shane Harper), a devout Christian and freshman college student, enrolls in a philosophy class taught by a dogmatic and argumentative atheist. Professor Radisson (Kevin Sorbo) demands that all of his students must sign a declaration that "God is dead" in order to get a passing grade. Faced with a choice between passing the class and betraying his beliefs, Josh refuses. As Josh is the only student in the class to do so, the professor strikes a bargain: Josh must defend his position that "God's not dead" in a series of debates with him, with the class members ultimately deciding who wins. If Josh loses, he flunks. When Josh accepts the challenge, he gets more than he bargained for — jeopardizing his faith, his academic future, and even his relationships.

There are several struggles and personal beliefs going on as well in the film; Ayisha (Hadeel Sittu) must hide her Christianity from her devout Muslim family and father; Mina (Cory Oliver) must deal with her mother who is suffering from dementia, her rich and executive brother Mark (Dean Cain) who refuses to see their mother, she also is in a relationship with Radisson (which is also a struggle as Mina is a devout Christian and Radisson is an atheist), and is frequently belittled in front of his colleagues; Amy (Trisha LaFache), a businesswoman and animal right's activist, is diagnosed with cancer and Mark (her boyfriend) breaks up with her, seeming to care more about his business life than he did about Amy; Martin (Paul Kwo) is a foreign exchange student from China, who struggles are similar to Josh as his father does not want him screwing up his brother's scholarship (as Josh's girlfriend, Kara, did not want him standing up to Radisson as it would affect her scholarship).

Radisson has Josh spend 20 minutes at the end of every lecture to give his arguments on why God exists, but Radisson constantly has a counter argument against all of Josh's debates. Ultimately, it comes down to a debate between both Radisson and Josh, who both make compelling points from both sides. Josh questions Radisson, asking why he hates God and after Radisson gives his response, Josh asks Radisson how he can hate someone that he doesn't believe exists. In the end, every member of Josh's class, including Martin, stand up and say "God's Not Dead", causing Radisson to leave the room in defeat. Radisson ultimately has a change of heart upon reading a letter from his late mother, and leaves to find his ex-girlfriend Mina, who is attending a Newsboys concert. He is struck by a car while crossing the street and his ribs are crushed, leaving him slowly dying of internal hemorrhaging. Pastor Dave ( David A.R. White) finds him, and helps save Radisson, who becomes a born-again Christian moments before his death.

Why are atheists always seen as the "bad people"?

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