On the way back from Bloggers drinks we drove past one of the controversial atheist advertising billboards, put up by NZ Atheist Campaign, The Humanist Society and NZARH, which have appeared around Auckland. This appears to have come on the back of the Richard Dawkins inspired bus advertising that made headlines earlier this year. It […]
Entries Tagged as 'Christopher Hitchens'
There’s Probably No God? Fisking Atheist Billboards
July 12th, 2010 430 Comments
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Bad Reasoning · Christopher Hitchens · John Hare · NZ Atheist Campaign · NZARH · Paul Kurtz · Philip Quinn · Richard Dawkins · Robert Adams · Stephen Layman · The Humanist Society · William Lane Craig
Maverick Philosopher on the Historical Atrocities Argument
April 11th, 2009 7 Comments
In making their case against theism many of the “new atheists” (indeed many of the old) commonly appeal to historical atrocities allegedly committed by believers in God. I was discussing this phenomena recently with Doug Geivett in the aftermath of the Craig v Hitchens debate. I cited the need for Christian apologists to rebut not […]
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Apologetics · Atheism · Christian History · Christopher Hitchens · Philosophy of Religion · Walter Sinnott-Armstrong · William Lane Craig
Craig v Hitchens: Dissecting the Debate UPDATE 2
April 6th, 2009 42 Comments
The debate between atheist journalist Christopher Hitchens and Christian Philosopher and Theologian Dr William Lane Craig has finished. There is an, albeit very brief, summary of the debate here and a more comprehensive one from a Philosopher here. One point of interest is that Hitchens appears to have given up towards the end and “yields […]
Tags: Atheism · Christopher Hitchens · Debates · Philosophy of Religion · William Lane Craig
Does God Exist? Christopher Hitchens v William Lane Craig
April 4th, 2009 13 Comments
A live blog debate will be held between atheist journalist Christopher Hitchens author of the best-selling God is Not Great and Christian Philosopher and Theologian Dr William Lane Craig author of too many things to list here. They will debate the topic: Does God Exist? Catch the live blog debate here on Sunday 5 April […]
Tags: Atheism · Christopher Hitchens · Debates · Philosophy of Religion · William Lane Craig
Contra Christopher Hitchens
August 10th, 2007 Comments Off on Contra Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens’ critiques of religion get a thorough rebuttal here. My favourite paragraph is this expose, The effectiveness of Hitchens’ book is also undermined by the large number of errors it contains, many so glaring that they will be picked up by even a casual reader with some knowledge of history and theology. The Gnostic […]
Tags: Atheism · Christopher Hitchens · Religious History
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
