In the video, the call-and-response of "God is great" seems unpracticed and out of sync.
The snakes are a response of God to the rebellion of God's people.
But I've had positive responses too – plenty of "God, I wish I had done that!" – but some deeply empowered women, always ready to fight their corner for equal pay, have got a bit eye-rolly, as if I am doing something irrelevant, just to make a cheap point.
My first response was "Mother of god, I hope so!" My vehemence sprang not just from enthusiasm for the improvements possible through linking to primary sources, fostering dialogues with readers, incorporating multimedia and tapping the awesome explanatory power of LOLcats.
The book is written under a pseudonym, Johannes de silentio, who discusses the biblical story of Abraham's obedient response to God's command to sacrifice his only son, Isaac.
The resistance of injustice as a response to God's "justification by grace through faith" sparked the Protestant movement in 1517, and such a commitment to protest continued to function as a foundational and prominent organizational tactic.
Another response is to think of God as being very different from a moral agent.
This mental, affective and volatile response is the Kingdom of God within us that judges the present as inadequate and impels us to work for the Kingdom of God outside us.
Nihilism is the obvious response to the death of God, by which we mean the collapse of any transcendent basis for morality, the collapse of the value of everything.
In 1966, 'Time' magazine asked "Is God Dead?" in response to the Death of God theological movement, citing the estimation that nearly half of all people in the world lived under an anti-religious power, and millions more in Africa, Asia, and South America seemed to lack knowledge of the Christian view of theology.
