Is Christianity holding Northern Ireland back? David Robertson vs Michael Nugent

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🗓️ 27 November 2015

⏱️ 128 minutes

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This week’s episode is a podcast-only special featuring the audio of a recent debate between David Robertson of the Solas Centre for Public Christianity and Michael Nugent of Atheist Ireland. Around 400 people filled Belfast’s Stormont Hotel ballroom to hear them debate the question ‘Is Christianity holding Northern Ireland back?’ moderated by BBC presenter William Crawley. For more from the debate http://alaninbelfast.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/is-christianity-holding-northern.html For David Robertson: http://www.solas-cpc.org/ For Michael Nugent: http://atheist.ie/ For more faith debates visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

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