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GUEST SPEAKERS:
February 5, 2012:
Rev. Don Foster
February 12, 2012:
Christina Brighton LUT
February 19, 2012:
Rev. Barbara Schreiner - Trudel
February 26, 2012:
Ruby Bailey
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FEATURED ARTICLES
By Peter Bolland
Atheism isn't really new. It's as old as the idea of God itself. At the dawn of history, the first time someone said, "There is a God," the guy standing next to him said, "No, there isn't." And we've been arguing about it ever since.
In the 10 years since 9/11, a raft of writers have published best-selling books championing the well-worn idea that God is an invention of our overactive collective imagination, an invention humanity would be a lot better off without.
At the head of the pack of the so-called "new atheists" is Richard Dawkins, whose book The God Delusion, published in 2006, spent 51 weeks on The New York Times best-sellers list and has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist and has little patience for any claim that cannot be supported by empirical evidence. For him, belief in the virgin birth, Creationism and the existence of an invisible cosmic overlord is utterly groundless—or worse. "Religion," said Dawkins in a recent New York Times interview, "teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers."
Dawkins is not alone in his critique of the traditional Judeo-Christian-Islamic God. He joins a brilliant and esteemed list of philosophers including David Hume, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Nagarjuna, John Stuart Mill, Noam Chomsky, George Santayana and Michel Foucault.
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