Wednesday, April 15, 2009

TLS radio podcast

My recent interview on The James Allen Show is now available for your listening pleasure. Go here and follow the relevant link.
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6 comments:

  1. T'sinadreeApril 17, 2009 at 7:05 AM

    Dr. Feser, I was just wondering if you've seen David Bentley Hart's new book:

    Hart, D. B. (2009). Atheist delusions: The Christian revolution and its fashionable enemies. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

    He seems to use the same sharp criticism that you use in TLS.

    Here's a quote: “atheism that consists in vacuous arguments afloat on oceans of historical ignorance, made turbulent by storms of strident self-righteousness, is as contemptible as any other form of dreary fundamentalism.”

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  2. Edward FeserApril 17, 2009 at 11:35 AM

    Just got it, and I look forward to reading it.

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  3. Matt BeckApril 17, 2009 at 2:01 PM

    Thanks for the link Dr. Feser. It's always nice to put a voice to the words/faces we see online.

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  4. Zetetic_chickApril 17, 2009 at 3:36 PM

    Hi there, as an off-topic comment, atheist writer A N Wilson has converted to Christianity.

    According to this article:

    As a hesitant, doubting, religious man I’d never known how they felt. But, as a born-again atheist, I now knew exactly what satisfactions were on offer. For the first time in my 38 years I was at one with my own generation. I had become like one of the Billy Grahamites, only in reverse. If I bumped into Richard Dawkins (an old colleague from Oxford days) or had dinner in Washington with Christopher Hitchens (as I did either on that trip to interview Billy Graham or another), I did not have to feel out on a limb. Hitchens was excited to greet a new convert to his non-creed and put me through a catechism before uncorking some stupendous claret. “So – absolutely no God?” “Nope,” I was able to say with Moonie-zeal. “No future life, nothing ‘out there’?” “No,” I obediently replied. At last! I could join in the creed shared by so many (most?) of my intelligent contemporaries in the western world – that men and women are purely material beings (whatever that is supposed to mean), that “this is all there is” (ditto), that God, Jesus and religion are a load of baloney: and worse than that, the cause of much (no, come on, let yourself go), most (why stint yourself – go for it, man), all the trouble in the world, from Jerusalem to Belfast, from Washington to Islamabad.

    My doubting temperament, however, made me a very unconvincing atheist. And unconvinced. My hilarious Camden Town neighbour Colin Haycraft, the boss of Duckworth and husband of Alice Thomas Ellis, used to say, “I do wish Freddie [Ayer] wouldn’t go round calling himself an atheist. It implies he takes religion seriously    http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2009/04/conversion-experience-atheism

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  5. Zetetic_chickApril 17, 2009 at 3:37 PM

    The link is:

    http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2009/04/conversion-experience-atheism

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  6. Zetetic_chickApril 17, 2009 at 3:38 PM

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