Collision

I’ve just ordered the new film ‘Collision’ featuring Christian Douglas Wilson and atheist Christopher Hitchens. There’s a website dedicated to it here.
Christopher Hitchens writes about the film here.
I’ll let you know what I think of it once it gets here.

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Atheistic Morality

A few years’ back David Robertson wrote a terrific little book as a riposte to Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion. The book is a series of letters. His eighth letter is found online here.
‘My fear is that once society as a whole accepts your basic presuppositions (that there are no absolutes in morality, that morality [...]

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Can we be good without God?

I had a hugely stimulating discussion last night on the issue of atheistic morality. As is usually the case, I can never quite remember what I ought to say until some time afterwards. This is something I did a while ago on the issue of whether we can be good without God.
It’s a crucial question. [...]

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Dawkins in Five

You may already be familiar with Matthew Stadlen’s Five Minutes With … It’s on the BBC website; lots of opportunity for wasted time!
If you’re not familiar with his work, check this out. It’s his interview with ‘Darwin’s Rottweiler’, Richard Dawkins, in which he defends his atheism. He talks about his fearless attitude to death and [...]

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