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Unbelievable?

Unbelievable? 2 Feb 2008 Positive atheism?

Unbelievable?

Premier Unbelievable?

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2014

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

David Vernon explains why he thinks that being an atheist is a positive thing.  Anna Robbins of the London School of Theology questions whether we can really find meaning without God. To hear more discussions between Christians and non-Christians go to www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable. Join the discussion on the Premier Community www.premiercommunity.org.uk/group/unbelievable.

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0:00.0

Churches growing in dangerous locations worshipers gathering in the dead of night

0:05.7

followers of Jesus risking their lives Christians imprisoned for owning a Bible. For persecuted Christians their only crime is to follow

0:16.3

Christ. Join secret networks today and your prayers and support will help the

0:21.0

church stand strong.

0:22.6

Stand with open doors to strengthen persecuted Christians.

0:26.8

Visit open doors.org

0:28.7

slash Premier.

0:30.6

Good afternoon.

0:31.4

Thank you for choosing Premier. It's just after 2 o'clock and I'm Justin Brawley with you between now and 3.30.

0:37.0

Thanks to David Aldous as usual. And let me tell you that from two weeks time we're going to be here at a new time of 2.30 okay in 2 weeks time that

0:46.2

Unbelievable is here from 2.30 on a Saturday afternoon so just wanted to make sure you

0:50.5

had that for your diary. You're unbelievable.

0:54.0

On today's program, we're going to be meeting atheist David Vernon

0:58.0

as he explains to us why he's positive about atheism.

1:01.0

He says a lot of people think it's a negative system ultimately and that's the way a lot of Christians see it.

1:06.6

Well asking the questions about atheism is Anna Robbins of the London School of Theology. She says she thinks there are some fundamental

1:14.0

problems with being an atheist. It leads towards kind of a meaningless in many ways.

1:18.8

We'll find out what he makes of those claims. That's all to come here on the program. Let's look back

1:26.7

at some of the last couple of weeks of programming though. Before we get to some of

1:30.6

your responses to last week's program where we had Marilyn Mason

1:34.3

from the British Humanist Association speaking with Gavin McGrath about whether we can

1:40.2

know what's right from wrong if we don't believe in God. This one is again in response to our

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