On Wednesday, March 30, 2016, Shawn P. Conroy,* President, Central Ontario Humanists, and William Haughton, Co-ordinating Minister, Collier United Church, will debate the perennial question “Does God Exist?”
Venue: Collier Street United Church
Location: 112 Collier Street, Barrie, ON L4M 1H3
Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Time: 7 PM – 9 PM
Location: 112 Collier Street, Barrie, ON L4M 1H3
Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Time: 7 PM – 9 PM
You can Tweet your questions with #GodDebate between now and March 30th!
* Shawn P. Conroy regularly posts comments on Canadian Atheist and is the author of the Weekly Review of Canadian Secularism.
If Haughton uses the ontological argument we are doomed because all atheists are fundamentalist adherents to scientism and lack the street creds to refute nuanced philosophical positions of this sort.
But… is that true in all possible worlds?
Typically, William doesn’t like the Cosmological Argument, and I expect he doesn’t like the Ontological Argument either. He understand that even if true, they don’t get you to Jesus. Expect him to angle for the historicity of Jesus.
Does God exist? Have you checked the White Pages?
God the Trickster seems real enough.
These debates deflect the real issues of our times. The most important thing to establish is that all religious leaders are fraudulent hucksters. None of them know anything about any God.
When politicians, at any level, indulge these hucksters, they are doing their societies a grave disservice.
Have you seen Mr. Deity’s “The God Distraction?” I think you will enjoy them. Only the intro and part 1 are out yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVVH071-5Ws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Yc_DuZkLY