Does secular humanism or Christianity offer a brighter future? Sara Stevenson vs Neil McKain

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🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Andy Kind hosts today's Unbelievable where the debate topic is Does Secular Humanism or Christianity offer a brighter future for the UK? We have teamed up with our friends at Aylesbury Vale Youth For Christ a pioneering youth ministry that holds debates in UK schools in the style of Unbelievable to engage the students in the big questions of life, faith and differing worldviews. A key component is that the students get to put their questions directly to the debaters. So grab your schoolbag as we join a fascinating debate held at the end of 2023 between secular humanist Neil McKain and Christian apologist Sara Stevenson. Neil McKain is also the vice-chairman of Humanists UK, and a religious studies teacher. Sara Stevenson who is a writer, speaker and theologian from the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. This was a debate held at St Michaels School in Aylesbury, UK. The debate was moderated by head of Religious Studies, Mark Smallwood. https://www.theocca.org/ https://aylesburyvale.yfc.co.uk/ https://standrewsbookshop.co.uk/product/hidden-in-plain-sight-2-2/ • Subscribe to the Unbelievable? podcast: https://pod.link/267142101 • More shows, free eBook & newsletter: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

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0:15.6	I didn't want to let my kids down.
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0:38.0	Let's fight poverty together.
0:42.0	You just can't prove it's true. I don't believe I was raised Catholic. I went to
0:45.5	Catholic primary school I went to a Catholic middle school I went to a Catholic
0:48.3	secondary school my headteacher was a priest I went to a Jesuit school and my
0:52.2	parents still Catholic my parents still
0:53.7	believe stuff that I think is utterly nonsensical can I still got on with my
0:57.6	parents yeah do I think they believe stuff that doesn't make sense to me now
1:01.0	yeah that's fine.
1:08.8	On the one hand, our justice movements are saying there's no objective truth, Christianity is wrong, but then they're coming behind us saying,
1:12.0	but this is what you should believe.
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