Was Christopher Hitchens right about religion? Peter Hitchens, Ed Turner & Peter Harris (plus Unbelievable? 2016 announced)

Unbelievable?

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 19 February 2016

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Until his death from cancer over four years ago, Christopher Hitchens was one of the preeminent figures of new atheism: a prolific writer who was eloquent, witty and in great demand for his speaking and debating. Justin is joined by Christopher's brother Peter Hitchens who is a columnist for the Mail On Sunday, atheist blogger Ed Turner, and Peter Harris, a Christian apologist writing a PhD on Hitchens. In this show we assess some of his arguments against religion, including the claim that "religion poisons everything" and belief in God is like believing in a celestial North Korean dictator. For Unbelievable? The Conference 2016: http://www.premierchristianradio.com/unbelievable2016" For Peter Hitchens: http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/ For Peter Harris: http://www.bethinking.org/author/peter-harris/page/all For Ed Turner: https://edthemanicstreetpreacher.wordpress.com For more faith debates visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

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0:30.0	Hello and welcome along to Unbelievable. I'm Brawley your host for the next hour and a half for the program that brings Christians and non-Christians together for dialogue and debate every Saturday afternoon as part of faith explored on Premier Christian radio.
0:44.8	And before we get into today's discussion, which will be about Christopher Hitchins, one of the
0:49.7	key new atheists while he was with us, I want to tell you something very exciting.
0:54.4	Yes, we have finally released the tickets. We've opened the ticketing for
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1:04.3	If you want to go there straight away to book your place at the brewery where we'll be holding
1:08.2	the conference again this year, then simply go to Premier Christian radio.com slash Unbelievable 2016.
1:15.2	If you're not aware of what unbelievable the conference is,
1:18.0	well I can tell you that is the UK's leading apologetics
1:21.0	and evangelism conference and it's a day of inspirational
1:23.8	training there's going to be world-class Christian apologists and evangelists there to
1:27.4	help you on this occasion rediscover your passion for telling others
1:31.0	about Christ and we're doing it this year in partnership
1:33.8	with the Christian Thinkers Society. So it's all happening. As I say, Saturday the
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