This is a debate I want to hear.
This is not Ray Comfort’s magic banana versus “Kelly’s” absurd suggestion that Jesus never existed. This is not even Rick Warren versus Sam Harris or Christopher Hitchens versus Al Sharpton.
it is Hitch, but instead of Sharpton we get the extremely intelligent and well reasoned pastor/professor/blogger Dr. Mark D. Roberts.
What do you think you are going to get when the author of God is Not Great tangles with the author of Can the Gospels Be Trusted? – an intellectual heavy-weight battle royal.
While I am sure Hitch will be more acidic (as is his tone) throwing huge haymakers, the Harvard educated Roberts can clearly defend himself (and the Gospel) with precise, emphatic jabs.
And yes, I am going full out with the boxing analogy. What could we call this “The Struggle in SoCal,” “The Lambast in LA,” “The Cacophony in Cali?”
If this were a pay-per-view, I putting the money down to buy it.
Bah, I wanted to listen to the debate but it says not till June.
Not till june? Aaron, please, don't torment us like this. Let us know when it's available, will ya?
Sorry, it said "June" in the link. I didn't mean to "torment" anyone.
It will be on the Hugh Hewitt show, I am assuming, which is broadcast nationwide out of LA. You may be able to catch it on the radio. Hugh's unfortunately not broadcast around me anywhere.
Hi Aaron:
I'll try to set my Tivo to catch it. It sounds good, but I do want to point out one thing. Christopher Hitchens is a political pundit, not a professional philosopher or theologian. It really is sort of a mismatch to put him in ring against a real thinker. Hitchens is good for rhetorical zingers, but for actual analysis we'd probably be better served if both sides were represented by philosophers. Now IMO I haven't very often seen the atheist side very well represented even when both sides were philsophers (I am thinking of the debates I've seen with Christian philosopher William Lane Craig), but to be fair it's because I don't find the atheist arguments to be very well grounded. My bias:-)
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keith
Here is a good debate in the meantime Jeffery Jay Lowder and Dr. Phil Fernandez.
From the Institute of biblical Defense: Theism vs. Naturalism.
Hitchens is good for rhetorical zingers, but for actual analysis we'd probably be better served if both sides were represented by philosophers.
Isn't he kind of the Ann Coulter of the left?
Hi Seeker:
More or less (less these days given his support for the Iraq War II).
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keith
Comparing Coulter to Hitchens is like comparing Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull to a bottle of Romanee-Conti Richebourg (wine).
I wouldn't agree Cineaste, although it might be like comparing Thunderbird to Boone's Farm:-) Coulter is quite an amazing woman:-)
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keith