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Is it Rational to be a Christian? - Justin Brierley vs Stephen Woodford

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🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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In 2019, Justin Brierley swapped his moderator’s chair for being a debater in a live show recorded in front of a student audience at Oxford University. He engaged atheist Stephen Woodford who runs the YouTube channel Rationality Rules on the question ‘Is it rational to be a Christian?’ • 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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0:00.0

You are listening to Unbelievable, the show that aims to get you thinking.

0:11.7

I'm Ruth Jackson and today we're revisiting a unique episode from the history of Unbelievable

0:17.1

where the otherwise conflict of verse Justin Briley swapped the moderator's seed to take

0:21.6

part in a debate himself.

0:23.8

In 2019, in front of a live audience at Oxford University, Justin debated the well-known

0:29.4

atheist YouTuber Stephen Woodford, also known as rationality rules, on the topic is it rational

0:35.7

to be a Christian.

0:37.3

So without further ado, let's join their debate.

0:40.0

Thank you so much for both of you and the guys.

0:46.4

Firstly, why don't we stop when you're steaming?

0:48.5

Tell us a bit about yourself, who you are, away from what you do.

0:52.3

Sure, my name is Stephen Woodford, come from the Isle of White, so I've got many fingers.

0:59.2

Basically, all my life have been interested in existential questions.

1:02.2

I wanted to know why we're here, what's our purpose, because what could be more important,

1:06.9

and if we have a life after this, then that matters probably more than our life here.

1:12.3

And so what I've done is I've jointly tried to pursue wherever the truth of these answers lie,

1:18.0

and I have found that no religion holds those answers, and that we are simply an evolved ape,

1:24.2

and there is, as I would say, a grander in this view of life, but it seems that a lot of people

1:29.8

struggle to see it as I do.

1:32.3

Thank you so much.

1:33.8

How did you get into doing what you do nowadays, YouTube and stuff like that, what's

1:37.5

what most of the things you used to get involved in that?

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