I'm listening to this exchange Bill and I can't tell if the audience skews one way or the other they seem to be right down the middle 50-50.

She gets a lot of applause, he gets some applause too.

One does not seem to be louder than the other, but they really respond to

her emotionally, it seems. In this next clip, she contrasts the Christian message with competing options.

The teaching of Christ as I see it and again I'm a brand new Christian but what I'm

finding out which is the opposite of growing up as a Muslim,

the message of Islam, but the message of Christianity I get is that it's a message of love, it's a message of redemption, and it's a story of

renewal and rebirth.

And so Jesus dying and rising again for me symbolizes that story.

And in a small way I felt like I had died and I was reborn.

And that story of redemption and rebirth I think makes Christianity

actually a very very powerful story for the human condition and human existence and the pain of

suffering but also our internal the recognition of what you call sin but perhaps the character defects that both good and evil are there

but that both good and evil are in us. I think those teachings in Christianity

are far more powerful and have led to I think the

flourishing of Western civilization compared to say growing up as a Muslim when I was taught that really the only way for you to be faithful

is to fear, naked fear and to have these sets of obligations which you basically obey.

And that was very much about power, about,

it was centered around hellfire and all of these other things and so Christianity as I

experienced I'll give you an example when I was an atheist and I was going all over both the United

States and all over Europe mocking Christians, making fun of them, making fun of faith.

As you're doing now, dear Richard.

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