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Aiken rose to fame on the second season of the television program American Idol in 2003. The now-30-year-old is noted as the most successful male and the most successful runner-up in that show's history.
6. Oprah's 'Church' Video Draws Over 5 Million to YouTube
A YouTube video that features talk show host Oprah Winfrey denying Jesus as the only way to God and promoting New Age ideas drew over five million viewers after only being made public for a month.
The under seven-minute video montage, entitled "The Church of Oprah Exposed," was posted late March and highlighted the concerns of Christians who believe the popular day-time host has been distorting Christianity and leading many into spiritual confusion.
When asked a direct question about how she is able to reconcile belief in Christianity with belief in author Eckhart Tolle’s New Age message, Oprah stated: “I reconciled it because I was able to open my mind about the absolute indescribable hugeness of that which we call God. I took God out of the box.”
She said she got tired of “rules” and “doctrines,” and particularly of the Scriptural idea that God is a “jealous God.”
“Something about that didn’t feel right in my spirit,” she said, “because I believe that God is love.”
Oprah’s promotion of Eckhart’s book, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, was criticized by Christian leaders including Chuck Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries, and S. Michael Craven, president of the Center for Christ & Culture, who called the book “nothing but spiritualized self-help and repackaged paganism that serve to deceive and divert people from the One True God and the salvation that comes only through Jesus Christ.”
The YouTube video on “The Church of Oprah” currently has more than eight million views.
7. 'Expelled' Explodes into Top 10 Box Office
“Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,” the pro-intelligent design documentary featuring actor Ben Stein, made history when it opened as the widest and one of the most commercially successful releases for any documentary film.
The film debuted at No. 9 at the box office, earning a respectable $2.97 million while only appearing on 1,052 screens. It went on to become the 12th highest grossing documentary film of all time.
Critics such as Jeannette Catsoulis of the New York Times have called the film a “conspiracy-theory rant masquerading as investigative inquiry,” and atheist scientists who were interviewed in the film have criticized it for the alleged out-of-context use of quotes and segments. Premise Media Corporation, the makers of the film, however, denied any wrongdoing.
"There is some serious mistreatment and downright reprehensible behavior going on here,” said Executive Producer Walt Ruloff, “but I can assure you it's not coming from us. Continue »
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