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Exploring the Concept of God in Film and Philosophy

This quiz explores the concept of God through film and philosophical perspectives, testing knowledge on characters, roles, and theological views.

1 Who played Stu in the movie God?

2 The dharmic religions differ in their view of the divine: views of God in Hinduism vary by region, sect, and caste, ranging from monotheistic to polytheistic to atheistic; the view of ________ is almost non-theist.

3 The earliest written form of the Germanic word god comes from the 6th century ________ Codex Argenteus.

4 What role did Thomas Eirheim play in the movie God?

5 Philosophical monotheism and the associated concept of absolute good and evil emerges in ________, notably with Plato (c.f.

6 What role did Sondre Larsen play in the movie God?

7 [30] ________ and Timothy Jurgensen demonstrate through formalization that Boyer's explanatory model matches physics' epistemology in positing not directly observable entities as intermediaries.

8 An example of a pluralist view in Christianity is ________, i.e., the belief that one's religion is the fulfillment of previous religions.

9 What role did David Allen play in the movie God?

10 What role did Hans Fredrik Strand play in the movie God?

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • the name teonanácatl, referring to a sacred mushroom of the Aztecs, translates to "the flesh of God".
  • the name of the Indo-European thunder god has been reconstructed by etymologists as *Perkwunos.
  • the variant of the wedding cord known as God’s knot or cord-of-three-strands is used as a substitute for unity candles.
  • the world's tallest statue of Hindu God Lord Shiva (pictured) is located in Murudeshwara, a coastal town in Karnataka, India.
  • the Church of England (Archbishop of Canterbury pictured) launched a Prayer for the Current Financial Situation that calls God to be a "a tower of strength amidst the shifting sands" of the global economic turmoil.
  • KDMN (now KSKE) and its Radio Colorado sister stations became the target of prank calls in 2003 when the film Bruce Almighty displayed the station group's phone number as God's.
  • according to legend, when a peasant stole a donkey from Opportuna of Montreuil's abbey, she "left the matter up to God," and the next day, the peasant's field was sown with salt.
  • former NCAA American football quarterback Wyatt Sexton's career for the Florida State University Seminoles ended when he did pushups in the street and proclaimed he was God.
  • Emperor Frederick II ran an experiment that involved raising infants in isolation to discover what language God spoke.