Atheist, Christian to debate about God
Christopher Hitchens, well-known atheist, author and journalist, will be in Billings on Oct. 19 to debate Larry Taunton, executive director of Fixed Point Foundation. The event will take place at 7 p.m. at the Babcock Theatre, at the corner of Second Avenue North and North Broadway. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased from Fixed Point Foundation at www.fixed-point.org or at 205-414-6311. The two men will debate “God or No God? Which is to be Preferred: a Christian or an Atheistic Society?”
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As I and many other readers are doubtlessly aware of Christopher's recently diagnosed cancer, it is hoped that he will be physically strong enough to travel, appear and ably engage in this important debate with Larry.
-JohnI hope Christopher finds God before he leaves this earth for eternity.
-AngelaHe's not "leaving this earth"… he's ~joining~ it, as worm food. Like the rest of us…
-joe agnostHe can not find something that does not exist
-JeffHitchens continues to doggedly stick to his atheist convictions, notwithstanding his impending departure from this vale of toil and sin. I strongly disagree with his irreligious views, but I can not help but admire his will to forge ahead with life, all the while knowing that his death is not far off. Also commendable is Hitchens' congeniality with his ideological opponents. If gentlemen can peacably debate as contentious a matter as the existence/non-existence of God while retaining respect–and even friendship– for one another, then perhaps there is hope for the human race after all.
-bighossThere is no more reason for a Christian to debate an atheist than there is for a mathmetician to debate someone who refuses to accept that one plus one equals two. Both the atheist and the math idiot are unlikely to see the truth through reasoning; they are willfully ignorant.
-BobberYour analogy makes no sense (none of your posts do for that matter). You can show the facts of the math. You cannot show the facts of the bible. There are none. There is no proof that anything the bible says is accurate. They got the creation account wrong, Noahs flood never happened. There is no evidence that Jesus even existed. The concept of Jesus can be traced to older religions.
You want to believe in blind faith, but math is not a matter of faith but proven and verfied information. You need to take your religious blinders off and look at the world as it is, not as you want it to be.
-JeffThere is a saying that states that "Those who believe in God , no explanation is necessary. Those who do not believe in God, no explanation is possible.
-DavidDon't forget "There is a sucker born every minute"
-JeffNo matter what we say to or about others, each time we speak it is about us and our own character. This is how our sins are shouted from the house top. Where we find good in others we find God and where we fail to find good we fail to find God. It is in looking for the good that we recreate ourselves according to the commandments given by Jesus. So on the one hand there is God and on the other hand He does not exist.
-James RI would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there isn’t, than to live my life as if there isn’t, and die to find out there is.
-Anonymous
A man with an argument is at the mercy of a man with an experience.
Gravity exists. It matters not whether you believe it or not. You will still fall.
-lizGood old Pascals Wager. However since there are thousands of gods that have been dreamt up over the centuries, you would have to believe in every one of them to ensure you have the right one. Since most are incompatable with each other, you are now betting that you have chosen the right one out of all the options. It is not just a matter of believe vs non belief. It is also which belief is accurate. Now I am sure you feel you have chosen correctly, just as every other religious person of all other faiths believes as well.
You are not concerned about all the other beliefs, you know they are false. Well, we know yours is false too.
-JeffMy God wrote a book, the Bible, Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth. No other "god" has done that.
-lizClose Liz – it's actually 'no god has done that', not even yours…
-joe agnostYour god did not write the book. People wrote the books Your god supposedly inspired them, but that is not the same thing as writing it himself. And other religions also have books that were inspired by their god, so sorry, that is also not correct.
-Jeff DixonHow did these "writers" correctly prophesy thousands of years into the future. The Book of Revelation is more current than tomorrow's newpapers. How did !,500 years of writers converge into one main theme.
As far as I know, other religious "books" don't prophesy the future.
-lizliz wrote: "How did these 'writers' correctly prophesy thousands of years into the future."
You write this as though it were true. It's really quite laughable.
Let's here about these prophesies shall we? Go on… give us a laugh! (Don't bother with the "circle" means "orb", we've been through that already…)
-joe agnostIt is easy to say these prophesies are correct. So, please enlighten us with your knowledge of the bible. Lets see some examples.
-Jeff DixonExcept the Qu'ran, and that's a bastardized version of the Holy Bible anyway. It was written by one man, who totally got it wrong.
-lizJeff Dixon , it's not just the Book of Revelation. Read Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39. Read the Books of Daniel and Isaiah and Matthew. There are many prophetic Books in the Bible.
For further clarification:
Rosh is Russia.
Gog and Magog are Russia, to the north of Israel.
Persia is Iran.
Babylon and the Garden of Eden and the Tower of Babel are in Iraq.
Togarmah is Turkey.
Gomer is Germany.
The East is China.
Ethiopia is Ethiopia.
Libya is Libya.
Egypt is Egypt.
Israel is Israel (which, since 1948 is a nation again, after 2,000 years) It became a nation in one day, the Balfour Decision, as prophecied.
The merchants of Tarshish and all the young lions thereof are England and the USA.
Rome is Rome, the city on 7 hills.
Today's headlines were prophecied thousands of years ago in the Bible. Notice the prevalence of ISRAEL in both.
I am not going to cut and paste the Bible to this thread, but if you really want to know the prophecies, you will read them.
P.S. The Bible has NEVER been wrong, and It NEVER will be. Also, in the end, God and His people win. Now, you know. Too bad Buddha did not know all this.
-lizMeshech is Moscow.
Tubal is Tobalsk.
2 cities in Russia
Dedan, I think, is Spain.
-liz