Comedy & Christianity - Marcus Brigstocke & David Robertson - Unbelievable?

Unbelievable?

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 June 2014

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Marcus Brigstocke is a well known comedian on UK radio and TV. An atheist, last year he wrote the book "God Collar" about his problems with religion, but also why he wants to believe in God. He chats with David Robertson of Solas, the Centre for Public Christianity. They talk about UK comedy's atheist leanings, Marcus' ciriticisms of both religion and new atheism, the problem of evil, the Old Testament and more besides. For Marcus Brigstocke http://www.marcusbrigstocke.com/ For David Robertson http://solas-cpc.org/ Watch the video promo for Unbelievable? the Conference 2012 DVD http://youtu.be/6g-5jTMeZew Order it at http://www.premier.org.uk/dvd For more Christian/non-Christian debate visit http://www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable or get the MP3 podcast http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or Via Itunes You may also enjoy: Unbelievable? 13 Dec 2008 Atheist Christmas Comedy - Robin Ince & James Cary Unbelievable? 8 Oct 2011 - Old Testament Grill-a-Christian with Peter J Williams Join the conversation: http://www.premiercommunity.org.uk/group/unbelievable and via Facebook and Twitter

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0:05.0	Yes, thank you Isaac. I was just about to get on to that.
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0:12.0	Can I carry on? We can grow our own
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0:19.6	whole ad? No you go. This Christmas put your your prayers into practice, so there's no going back to extreme poverty.
0:27.0	To donate, search for Tier Fund No Going Back.
0:30.0	Welcome along to Unbelievable. With me Justin Briley. It's Saturday afternoon here on
0:35.0	Premier Christian Radio Time of the Week when we get a Christian and a non-Christian to
0:39.3	discuss some aspect of faith or belief. This is the program that aims to get you thinking on
0:44.5	Saturday afternoons. Don't forget we're available at Premier.org.
0:48.3	UK slash unbelievable. That's our online web page where you can find past programs, features, resources,
0:55.4	links to other things like the atheist prayer experiment which came to a
0:59.7	conclusion in this last week and indeed you can find links to the unbelievable conference
1:04.7	DVD from 2012 if you want to check that out for yourself premier dot org
1:09.2	dot uk slash DVD some 10 hours or so of teaching across three DVDs on evidence for the Christian
1:16.5	faith and how to present it to people.
1:19.2	But time to leap into today's discussion and we've got a fantastic one lined up for you today
1:25.3	on comedy and Christianity.
1:27.4	You're unbelievable.
1:29.6	Well welcome along and so pleased to have joining us on the phone today for today's program
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