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Unbelievable? 24 Jul 2010 - Psychology of religion

Unbelievable?

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 June 2014

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Is belief in the supernatural inherent from birth?  Is Christianity a psychological crutch or a path to emotional wholeness? Is God belief simply a result of evolution?  Would it make belief untrue if it were? These and other questions are discussed by atheist psychological therapist Martyn Frame and Christian tutor of psychology of religion Revd Dr Joanna Collicut McGrath. Martyn believes that religious belief can be given a psychological evolutionary explanation that precludes need for belief in God.  Joanna argues that such theories are sketchy at best and that humanity's religious longings can't be rationalised so easily. For Joanna Collicut McGrath see http://www.heythrop.ac.uk/about-us/college-staff/academic-staff/dr-joanna-collicutt.html "The Dawkins Delusion" co-authored with her husband Alister Mcgrath can be found on Amazon here  Martyn Frame's profile page at the Premier Community http://premiercommunity.ning.com/profile/MartynFrame?xg_source=activity For more Christian/non Christian debate visit http://www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable or get the podcast at http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or Via Itunes If you enjoyed this programme you may also enjoy: Unbelievable? 24 Apr 2010 - "Grill a Christian" show - four atheists challenge David Robertson with their objections to faith Unbelievable? 19 Dec 2009 - What does Science Tell us about God?" - Atheist scientist Lewis Wolpert debates believing scientist Russell Cowburn Join the discussion at the Unbelievable? group of the Premier Community http://www.premiercommunity.org.uk/group/unbelievable

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Welcome along to Unbelievable Question Mark, the program that gets Christians and non-Christians talking on a weekly basis here on Premier Christian radio and we engage in all kinds of discussions on a weekly basis here between people of different

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perspectives it's the time of the week when we try to get the brain going here on the

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show we're also a popular podcast of course and you may have come across us via our webpage at

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welcome along too so wherever you are however you're listening hope you enjoy the

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program that we've got for you this afternoon.

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We're asking the question on the program today is religion a trick of the mind and in for a friendly chat

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really on the discussion panel today my two guests are Martin frame he's a

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psychological therapist an atheist from Glasgow'll hear some of his background shortly.

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Also Joanna Kollicut, who's a senior lecturer in psychology at Heathrop College in London.

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And she's a Christian, she's ordained ordained and we'll be finding out where she

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stands on the whole issue of the psychology of religion particularly as it pertains of

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course to Christianity and so we're going to be looking at things like well is our

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our beliefs purely a product of an evolutionary background if you like does that show

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