Screenwriter and best-selling author Andrew Klavan delivers remarks to the audience at the Acton Institute's 29th Anniversary Dinner at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which took place on October 15, 2019.
As I sit here, on my second drink, family against me for my newly found Christian Conservative values, wondering who I truly am and where do I go... I thank you, Andrew. And I thank God for this video of all things that could have appeared in my feed, to remind me that I’m not and haven’t been alone.
I hope the best for you. I would just like to share that I've learned you cannot convince anyone to believe in God. In my experience, that usually will be met with stubborn denial or even heightened conflict. All we can do is set a good example for others to see. Live out your beliefs and let others see what kind of man you are. That'll do the talking for you.
You and your family members were each made in His image, the part that goes on when our bodies quit working. Our imperfect brains, with the input of our imperfect senses, help us relate to this imperfect world. I don't wonder who I am as much as what I need to be doing to best match His plans for me. An eternal place was made for me. Who do I need to become to best fit that place? Meanwhile, if there is something beyond this world, spiritual influence must exist, both good and the other. The only way I know to guard against the other is to ask for help from the Good and be willing to recognize and accept that help. Being drawn to this vid is one example. God knows what Robert Valenti needs, whether guidance, protection, forgiveness, comfort.... I will ask that He keeps on giving it. I have experienced enough responses from Him that I know prayer matters. No, we are never alone.
Wow, Andrew got it! He is a jew for Jesus, he is so blessed! Sometimes the rough road he had paid off. There are well over 20.000 jews for Jesus in Israel and growing. AWESOME! The Talmud volumes have hundreds of evil stuff said about Jesus, most faithful jews do not like Jesus and see us as second class, all non-jews. We are slowly coming together all over the world. Even ex-Muslims read the bible in Mecca with their Muslim clothing and the hidden bible. In Iran, you have underground Christian churches. These people have it so hard but are so brave whereas in the USA we have it great and have so many brainwashed young leftist communists. how sad .....
He is on the forefront of cracking the philosophical code we are living out in contemporary life, globally even (so long as westernism prevails as the model for development)-much as Nietzsche could outline the post modernist movement before it impacted world events. It’s a deep question that plagues every inquisitive mind, as to where we are headed in the future based on the actions we take today. Yet we deeply lack the equipment necessary to mentally process them, until now as we awaken to the orderly nature of truth and the notions used to discern it, based in what is as real as we can fathom. Because that’s the best we can possibly strive for and sometimes it takes a viewpoint so dissolved apart from the structures of status that what pathway ought to be taken is ultimately more clearly described. Language is our greatest weapon, Truth be told,
I can't express HOW MUCH I ADMIRE this guy!!! After finding him on "The Daily Wire", I followed him for a while, always laughing at his clever jokes, and admiring his common sense. After reading his book, "The Great Good Thing", that admiration grew exponentially. He's honest, humble and clever. Wish many people would listen to him.
Yes, I agree. I had never heard of him until I happened upon the Klavan & Whittle segments on PJTV. I was struck by his intelligence, his gentlemanly demeanor and how his calming eloquent ying was such a nice balance to Bill Whittle's more bombastic yet equally intelligent yang. Now I know he's more than just another pretty face, he is a real man of real substance, fighting for what's good, decent and right about this world God entrusted to us.
As I stand friendless and in enemy territory for my belief in Jesus I can only say that the war I find myself immersed in is a peaceful place where I hide beneath the pinions of God.
I met Andrew a couple years ago at a conservative forum in Santa Clara, CA. He appeared at a gathering of some two hundred and fifty. He is a brilliant man who exemplifies a man who recovered both himself and thousands of others.
Dear Mr. Klavan (Lord of the Multi Verse) That was your best speech yet. Thanks as always for your wisdom, bravery and honesty. You are a light to others when all other lights go out. WhoooYeah!!!
18:30 "Change the meat and takes hormones it becomes so." "If that's all you are is a meat puppet and chemistry set" holy shit this dude is my hero. #1 inspirational figure.
Marie Miller This is a brief explanation for "LIFE": Everything, both visible and invisible, is what most persons call "God". REAL God is Impersonal Absolute Nothingness (otherwise called "Tao", "The Great Spirit", "Brahman", "Pure Consciousness", "Eternal Awareness", “Independent Existence”, et cetera). God is One Reality but just as a knife cannot cut itself or fire cannot burn itself, God cannot know Himself (or at least EXPERIENCE Himself) and so has manifested this phenomenal universe within Himself. Therefore, this world of duality is really just a play of consciousness within Consciousness. Apparently, this phenomenal universe was "created" (within Consciousness) with the initial act (the so-called "Big Bang") and from that first deed, every action that has occurred has been a direct or indirect result of it. Therefore, each of us humans were the result of that initial manifestation. That is the real explanation for "karma" - everything was preordained from the initial spark (or to be more precise, preordained in ETERNITY). Whatever state in which we currently find ourselves is the result of two factors alone - our genetic make-up at conception and our present-life conditioning. Because we are temporarily residing within this dualistic universe, we experience both pleasure and pain. Suffering and pain are NOT synonymous. Suffering is due to a false sense of personal doership - the belief that one is a separate, independent author of one’s thoughts and deeds. There are five manifestations of suffering: 1. Guilt 2. Blame 3. Pride 4. Worry/Anxiety 5. Regrets about the past and expectations for the future/Attachment to outcomes These types of suffering are the result of not properly understanding what was explained above - that life is a series of happenings and NOT caused by the individual living beings. No living creature, including us humans, has individual free-will. There is only the Universal, Divine Will at play, acting through every body, to which William Shakespeare famously alluded when he scribed "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." The human organism is simply a biological machine, comprised of the five gross material elements and three subtle material elements. So now that you understand life and why we are suffering here in this (supposedly) material universe, you are now able to be liberated from all forms of suffering, RIGHT? WRONG! It is imperative to find an authentic spiritual master to assist you to come to the above realization, by slowly undoing your past conditioning. Even if you follow a competent teacher, you may still not come to a full understanding of life, but if you are sincere, humble and dedicated, you will definitely find more peace in your daily life (all of which was DESTINED to occur, of course). Peace! 🙏 The World Teacher.
Totally agree. He has not only a great handle on our crazy culture, but a very wise and loving strategy to bring clarity and healing to people caught up in the web of secularism.
@@InnerMittenSignal Sorry I am not being rude, but your comment is silly. If you believe in the existence of God it is not to hedge your bet, that wouldn't really be believing. I also think you don't maybe do and maybe don't believe in the existence of God.
I'm surprised anyone can find good content on YT these days w/the way they've messed w/the algorithms and only shove MSM stuff in our faces now, but glad you did!
My favorite Daily Wire host. I miss hearing him every day and have to make due with his Friday podcasts. Inspiring, honest, funny, compassionate and wise, he makes me examine my own Christian beliefs and strengthens them with a great combination of logic and faith.
Masterpiece,,,Everything Andrew says makes total sense,,,so so true, I wish he would come here to Ireland,this society is collapsing by the day, The EU,,,UN,, and the media are a cancer destroying the west America is the Wests best Hope... God Bless Andrew
I thank God for Andrew and the many people logging in here. After 65 years of faith, God’s mercy and grace are looming larger and larger. Trying to “do it right” has been a burden in the past but the Holy Spirit liberated me from “I Got to” to blessed “I get to”. I get to live in His love, mercy, grace, and blessing. He is ALIVE!
Hoho Sims it is a paraphrase of a statement made by Professor Yuri Maltsev. He was a junior economic adviser to Gorbachev in the late 80s, defected to the United States and played a very significant role in healthcare in the strategy to collapse the Soviet union
I listen to Mr Kalvan's show on RU-vid most days, but this made me cry. He described so many aspects of my own journey to Christ and truth that I felt an overwhelming sense of relief to know that I have come to the right place in life and I am not alone in my deeper understanding of how to bring that successfully to others once lost in the place I sat for far too long.
That's how the journey is. If you talk to others you'll find they to felt lost until they noticed there are people who not only believe the same things, but state them with confidence, openly. You're suffering from a dissonance, the media and so many of your friends say one thing but you know it isn't true but they say it anyways and you begin to think there is something wrong with you. There isn't, just don't ever settle for not questioning what you've been told again even from people like Mr. Klavan.
Saw this on my recommended and I had to click bc Drew's our boi and it brings me great joy to see him on a stage like this. Loved this speech, really exceeded my expectations. I kind of came into this expecting him to just thank God and his family then walk off the stage.
Klavan is hilarious and brilliant! Moreover, he understands and expresses fundamental truth in a way that is easily understood. He has a genius for purveying truth in a palatable way. Love ❤️
I was lucky from the age of five when Billy Graham came to Belfast N Ireland. I’m a big time sinner, yet Jesus has never let me down. If they hate you remember they hated me first . Blessing 🌹
Thank you Andrew - for so eloquently speaking to today's modern culture in the way Tolkien spoke to CS Lewis; both whom spoke to the fashions of their time. If the same questions need answering every generation; the progressives dont seem to have made much progress.
RU-vid suggested this to me. And, it was a brilliant suggestion! I think Andrew Klavan may have made a classic error about powerful technology, to wit: curators don't kill comity, people kill comity. The rest of the talk, while I guess containing a few more flaws, reminds me of why I include Mr. Klavan within a handful of commentators I actually devote time (which I am not situated to well afford) to listen to (which, evidently, RU-vid "knows"). The ideas he relates are important, and, in his telling, well said.
This deserves way more views that ending on Jesus and Socrates was stunning. Also the part about telling story’s that point to the light. Very well done.
I returned to God or rather finally arrived in the full truth and faith, through my admiration and fascination with Christopher Hitchens.I devoured all his youtube videos and read God is not Great nodding my head at his flawless logic.And then....something happened. I can't remember at what point but i think it was my heart first and my head following but whatever it was I thank him deeply and know that he also will by now have found truth and light.God bless your soul Christopher.
Karen Hodges. Hi, I read your comment and just wanted to share Matthew 4:17 with you. Have a read and prayerfully think on it. I would say that Jesus tells us to preach to people. Preaching is only the telling of what Jesus said. He knows more than Socrates ever did and if it is what Je tells us to do, we should. After all aren’t we following Him? Be blessed. I hope this is received in the love I’m sending it.
3 people gave this a Thumbs Down. I wonder if they had a reason logical or otherwise), and why they didn't share their wisdom with we poor benighted racists? This is a golden opportunity to (re)educate us in Good Think.
One of the best minds we have today.Yet our culture proclaims him to be hateful and bigoted. If people would simply put there biases aside and take a chance on the truth ,the truth would surely set them free.
Thank you. You do what missionaries do entering and living in another culture. Somehow, we take for granted in the US what is just not true. That people are ready for harvest, when in reality, we need to sow. Sow seeds - Questions. Stories - start as the beginning. We need a missionary encounter here. Thank you Andrew. Thank you so much. I am grateful for your life, for what you suffered so that so many can come out of the cave of shadows and get a glimpse of the Good, the True, the Beautiful and then, we pray, fall in love with Jesus. Muchisimas Gracias!
Wow, what a perspective AND prospective on secularism. Listen through the end, maybe seven times, because this speech is a sermon that is wall to wall.
Absolutely correct Jose, thank you. Christ was alive on the cross when He said "it is done" then He gave up His life because His work of salvation was done.
@@susanhaynes1801 I know some Christians believe that Christ was defeated at the cross, but it was the very reason He stepped down from eternity. It is very important people understand that the only way to the Father is through Jesus Christ, all because He took our sins to the Cross.
