Is the God of the Bible a capriciously malevolent, misogynistic, sadomasochistic bully? Dan Barker vs Martin Kuhrt

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🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Richard Dawkins famously describes the God of the Old Testament as ‘jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully’. Dan Barker and Rev Martin Kuhrt have both published books defending and refuting Dawkins’ description. They debate three of the charges on today’s show. For Dan Barker: https://ffrf.org/about/getting-acquainted/dan-barker For Martin Kurht: https://www.amazon.co.uk/God-Good-Exploring-Character-Biblical/dp/1725263947 USA listeners check out our new USA website for exclusive resources and to support us: http://www.unbelievable.show Subscribe to our newsletter and receive the free Unbelievable? e-book ‘In Conversation With…’https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter Support the show: https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable For more faith debates visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Facebook https://www.facebook.com/UnbelievableJB Twitter https://twitter.com/unbelievablejb Insta https://www.instagram.com/justin.brierley

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the show, it's Justin Bralee.
0:03.2	With you for another edition of Unbelievably, the program that brings you conversations
0:06.4	that matter between Christians and atheists.
0:09.5	And it's a sparky dialogue today, a hard-hitting one, I would say, Dan Barker with a significant
0:15.5	critique of the God of the Old Testament and a spirited response from Martin Kurt today.
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