Charles Moren: I don't believe that I was arguing for a subtle nuanced brand of Christianity. The debate tonight is not about bad religion but whether the new atheism has slipped into fundamentalism, he says. Richard Harry asks Charles North if there may be a God logically There may be a leprechor If I might please say that, yes, you can't let Richard get away with that That's a ridiculous remark No, no, no, that is a ridiculous remark You cannot confuse the God of classical Theism which has animated the whole of western philosophy with a lepre chor and I'm surprised at you Oh, I'm sorry. Anthony says you can. One over here
Does God exist? In this archive debate from 2009, we invited a panel of expert speakers to discuss whether atheism had replaced religion as the new faith of the secular age. Are atheists as blinkered and dogmatic as they claim religious believers to be? Arguing for the motion were former Bishop of Oxford Richard Harries and former Editor of the Daily Telegraph Charles Moore. Arguing against the motion were evolutionary biologist and science author Richard Dawkins and philosopher AC Grayling. The debate was chaired by historian, author and commentator Anthony Seldon.
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