Hitchens / McGrath - Religion: The Center vs The Fringe, Pt 3
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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: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX_LM7WZc9A
Part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VVYtJhbJHI
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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, D.C., 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 Language, and a Culture" (2001), and "The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World" (2005).
He has written biographies of John Calvin, Thomas Torrance, and J. I. Packer. He has also written on the interaction of science and theology and his "A Scientific Theology" (4 volumes, 2001-2004) has been hailed as one the most important works of systematic theology to appear in recent years. He has written two critiques of the biologist "Richard Dawkins: The Dawkins Delusion?" (2007) and "Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life" (2005). His most recent book is "Christianity's Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution - A History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First," published by HarperOne. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2005 and in 2009 he will give the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen.
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with that said R.I.P. Hitch, miss you already.......and if there is a God may he bless you and if not ? Oh well.......
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I love Hitchens and as a Christian I hope to see him in heaven , so i can have a scotch and a cigarette with him. But its plain as day he vitriol of "religion". And while he a GREAT speaker and writer and provacatuer he is no theologian nor philosopher. What truly amazes me is that many of the youtube crowd , who claim there is no God , fair enough, but then act as if Hitchens is a God lol. Especially when so may of his arguments are bombastic and non sensical
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"Expiable"? Oh come on! Now you're just makin' that up!
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if i were to answer your question, in a way which would answer it, i would rephrase to say that, in my following speech that my answer could be phrased as....JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION FOR FUCK SAKE
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@ivlfounder I doubt it buddy. He's likely trying to figure out how to defend his man made ideology without people booing him.
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@rightwing52000 haha
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When McGrath looks at Hitchens he's trying to figure out on what part of the head Hitchens mother dropped her child.
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POPE'S BALLS!
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mcgrath could talk for 17 hours about religon without saying a single fucking thing.
rightwing52000 6 months ago 63
While McGrath talks, Im looking at Hitchens' body language and Im trying to figure out what is going through that brilliant mind of his. LoL I can think of so many funny things...
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