Was Jesus a great moral teacher or something more? Julian Baggini and Skye Jethani

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🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Atheist philosopher Julian Baggini and Christian author Skye Jethani discuss whether the teachings of Jesus Christ can be separated from his claims to divinity. For Julian’s new book The Godless Gospel https://www.julianbaggini.com/the-godless-gospel/ For Skye’s new book What’s Wrong With Religion? https://skyejethani.com/ and his podcast The Holy Post https://www.holypost.com/ USA listeners check out our new USA website for exclusive resources: 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 and receive all the videos sessions from Unbelievable? USA 2019 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	Well hello and welcome along to Unbelievably the show bringing you conversations that matter
0:04.3	every week here on Premiere Christian Radio and all over the world via our podcast you
0:08.6	can find out more at premiercrishtianradio.com forward slash unbelievable and it's been
0:14.5	another interesting week in American politics hasn't it the circus continues and well whatever
0:19.4	you make of it again.
0:20.9	Present thoughts are with you and one of my guests on the show today, Skyjutani actually
0:26.4	co-hosts the Holy Post podcast with Phil Vischer and Christian Taylor and they've been doing
0:30.7	some deep dives recently on the American election.
0:33.5	I highly recommend that podcast if you enjoy podcast the Holy Post and we're going to be
0:38.9	hearing from Sky today along with Julian Bajini as we look at the question can you divorce
0:45.0	the ethical teachings of Jesus from his claims to be the son of God that's our discussion
0:49.9	on the program today.
0:50.9	Hope you enjoy it a fascinating conversation between them both.
0:54.7	More feedback from you as well towards the end of today's show we've had some really
0:57.7	interesting shows recently on whether it's indoctrination to bring up your kids Christian
1:02.9	and of course a last week's show on conversion and deconversion has sparked a lot of interest
1:07.8	as well so we'll get to some of that in the course of today's show.
1:11.8	One thing that was overshadowed by the US elections in the last week or so was the sad
1:16.3	passing of the former Chief Rabbi in the UK Lord Jonathan Sachs and so if you'd like
1:22.4	to listen to an interview that I took with him about four years ago when he won the
1:26.7	Templeton Prize we've just re-released that on our profile podcast so if you want to
1:32.1	go and check that out it's on the profile podcast we've also blogged about it over at
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