That night, after the third and final session, Radisson finds the note left by his mother before she died. The other students now get to choose whether or not God is dead, beginning with Chinese student Martin Yip, everyone rises in unison and says "God is not dead". Radisson sees Josh's actions and leaves the classroom in defeat.ĭuring this time, Radisson has been verbally abusing Mina for being a Christian, so she leaves him. He attempts to make Josh mess up, but during the last session, he's pressured by Josh into revealing why he hates God he says that God took everything from him, revealing that he even knows God exists. Radisson then requires Josh to speak from the podium during the last twenty minutes of the next three classes to prove God's existence, with the rest of the class acting as the jury. One student, Josh Wheaton, is a Christian and can't do it. In November 2012, Radisson forces his new students to write "God is dead" with their signature on a piece of paper. They were live-in boyfriend and girlfriend in the movie. At some point, he fell in love with one of his students, Mina Shelley, a few years before the events of the film. Radisson eventually became a philosophy professor.
Ever since, he has hated God for taking everything from him and repressed His existence by telling everyone that he's an atheist (despite being more agnostic at best). Once a God-loving Christian, Radisson's life changed at the age of twelve when his mother was dying of cancer, and despite his prayers, his mother died, leaving him alone. Radisson was born an only child, and his father was implied to have died of an unknown cause according to a letter left from his mother. 1.2 God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness.