S1 E07. The New Thinkers: A new conversation on God

The Surprising Rebirth Of Belief In God

Justin Brierley

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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As New Atheists turned their attention to battling the quasi-religions of 'woke' ideology in academia and culture, so a new generation of secular thinkers have begun a new conversation on God. Justin Brierley charts the changes wrought by the culture wars and introduces some key thinkers who are asking whether we can live without the Christian story. They include: Tom Holland, Douglas Murray, Louise Perry, Mary Harrington, Bret Weinstein, Jonathan Haidt and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. More info, book & newsletter: https://justinbrierley.com/surprisingrebirth/ Support via Patreon for early access to new episodes: https://www.patreon.com/justinbrierley/membership Support via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/brierleyjustin Support via Tax-deductible (USA): https://defendersmedia.com/portfolio/justin-brierley/ Buy the book or get a signed copy: https://justinbrierley.com/the-surprising-rebirth-of-belief-in-god/ Ep 7 show notes: https://justinbrierley.com/surprisingrebirth/episode-7-the-new-thinkers-a-new-conversation-on-god-the-surprising-rebirth-of-belief-in-god-podcast/ Also, check out our show ‘Uncommon Ground’ for discussion and debates: ⁠⁠https://justinbrierley.com/uncommon-ground-podcast/⁠⁠ The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God is a production of Think Faith in partnership with Genexis, and support from The Jerusalem Trust & the Christian Evidence Society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, we were not prepared for this. The venue is full. However, the mission is bigger than the room. You can still join us. Due to the incredible uptake, our responding to the Rebirth Conference will now be live streamed. Book your online pass now at rebirthconference.net. You may not be in the room, but you can still be part of the
0:22.5	response from anywhere in the world on Saturday the 22nd of November. On the live stream,
0:28.5	you'll get full access to all keynote sessions, panels and interviews with guests, including
0:33.6	John Lennox, Paul Kingsnorth, Elizabeth Oldfield and Al Gordon.
0:39.3	You can take part in the Q&A.
0:42.1	You'll get to take home recordings of all of the sessions and get a front row seat to what God is doing.
0:45.7	A rebirth is happening.
0:47.6	Let's respond together wherever we are.
0:49.8	Book your live stream pass at rebirthconference.net.
0:59.5	I just read my email. We have our first win. The dog park paper has been accepted. They don't know. We're about to tell them.
1:06.9	So it turns out, there are these three professors. And these three professors, Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay, and Peter Bogassian.
1:14.1	And they decided to prank all of these stupid academic journals out there.
1:18.8	This story is so great. I love it so much.
1:20.5	There's a thing like academics work their careers to write one or two of these a year.
1:26.6	And so they're really hard to write.
1:28.3	They're supposed to be hard to get published.
1:30.5	So we wrote 20 of them in 10 months.
1:35.5	And seven of those got accepted.
1:38.6	Four were actually published.
1:40.7	And at least four more.
1:43.1	Yeah, we got busted.
1:43.9	And at least four more, yeah, we got busted, and at least four more were on track.
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