Can Your Life Be Meaningful Without God? | Dave Rubin & John Lennox

The Rubin Report

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🗓️ 26 December 2019

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report participates in a conversation with Christian thinker Prof John Lennox and Justin Brierley, for Unbelievable's The Big Conversation interview series. The interview series is designed to bring Christians and skeptics together for dialogue and debate. Dave Rubin and John Lennox discuss the big questions involving spirituality and religion, like is God dead? They both share their religious upbringing stories, growing up in a conservative Jewish household for Dave and a Christian household in Northern Ireland for John. They talk about how these experiences shaped their moral and religious views at the time, but also to this day. John shares how his father raised him with a form of Christianity that was mind opening and not mind closing. Dave reveals how he came to feel like he was part of the atheist community. He also discusses his recent changing views on God and how he no longer feels comfortable with the label of atheism after spending a year on the road with Jordan Peterson. Constantly listening to Jordan's lectures about the role religion and God play in forming a societies ethic and moral structure caused him to rethink if he was an atheist. Dave also shares his story of the night that he thought he was going to be a witness to Jordan Peterson violating one of his 12 rules for life. Dave and John give their opinions on if it's possible for people to find meaning in the modern world without a faith. John shares personal stories that will help anyone who wants to raise an open minded child who is welcoming of different views and perspectives. They also both give their thoughts on why Socialism continues to make a comeback with the younger generation. They discuss all this and much more.

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0:00.0	Thank you very much. That is a great welcome. Thank you so much. Well, welcome to tonight's
0:16.0	big conversation filmed live here in Costa Mesa, California. The big conversation is produced
0:22.7	by Premier Christian Radio in partnership with the Templeton Religion Trust. And it's a
0:27.2	series of video discussions between thinkers across the religious spectrum looking at some of
0:31.9	the biggest questions in life. Who are we? What's it all about? Looking at science, faith,
0:37.2	philosophy, what it means to be human. I'm delighted to say that tonight we're going to be sitting
0:43.3	down and hearing from two people that I've really been looking forward to bringing into conversation
0:48.4	together. We're going to be looking at the question of, is God dead? It's a conversation on faith,
0:55.5	culture and the modern world. Where are the next generation turning to in an increasingly
1:00.8	pro-post-Christian society? Is God dead as Nietzsche wants declared or is there space for a renaissance
1:08.5	of religious belief in the modern world? John Lennox, who is here on my left, is Emeritus
1:15.6	Professor. Just to give a brief intro, John is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and the
1:29.9	Philosophy of Science at Oxford University. He's a leading Christian thinker and he's engaged
1:34.8	many of the world's leading atheist voices as well. His latest book is called Can Science Explain
1:41.2	Everything and it is available as well after. Dave Rubin is my other guest. Let's have a round of
1:54.7	a talk show that reaches millions of people every week. Dave is going to be telling us about his
2:03.7	religious background and where he's at now. I won't label him at this point but he regularly hosts
2:10.7	conversations with leading cultural and religious thinkers on his show. I'm really looking forward to
2:16.8	what he's going to be bringing to this conversation today. He has a new book out, it's available for
2:21.0	pre-order. Don't burn this book, it's the title. Thinking for yourself in an age of unreason. I do
2:28.9	recommend you go and get that if you can on pre-order as well. One more time, please give a warm
2:34.6	round of applause to my guest, John Madden, who is amazing.
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