The brilliant man lays things down like they really are, as usual.
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World News Anchor, Diane Sawyer, asks physicist Stephen Hawking about the biggest mystery he’d like solved. He said, “I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something rather than nothing”. He’s so smart yet, sadly, he doesn’t believe in a loving God or personal Savior (Jesus). www.abcnews.com _
Complete video at: fora.tv Oxford University theologian Alister McGrath debates atheist author Christopher Hitchens on whether the goals of mainstream religions can be separated from those of their extremist “fringes.” This is part three of a three-part excerpt. Part one: www.youtube.com Part two: www.youtube.com —– Poison or Cure? Religious Belief in the Modern World: A debate, dialogue, and discussion with Christopher Hitchens and Alister McGrath. The Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University host a debate between writer Christopher Hitchens and Oxford University professor Alister McGrath on the role of religious belief in the modern world. Christopher Hitchens is an author, journalist and literary critic. Now living in Washington, DC, he has been a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Nation and Slate; additionally, he is an occasional contributor to many other publications. He is most recently the author of “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything” (2007) and editor of “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever” (2007). Alister McGrath is a biochemist and Christian theologian born in Belfast, North Ireland. He currently enjoys the title of distinction “Professor of Historical Theology” granted by the University of Oxford. He has written extensively on history and theology, including “In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a …
Personal experience testimony welcomed. Seems that all aggressive religion strains have three things in common:
1. they claim to be the only truth or at least the best purest truth
2. They claim to be the fastest growing religion in the world
3. They claim to be the only religion hated and persecuted by others
And if every religion rejects all other Gods isn’t that rather similar in some ways to the atheists’ position?
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Michael Shermer and Dinesh D’Souza go toe-to-toe on some of the greatest issues related to science and religion: is there evidence for God’s existence, what is the proper relationship between science and religion, and has religion been a force for good or evil in the world?