I’ve gotten a few emails about upcoming events that might be of interest to those of you in the areas, so here you go:
Tuesday, September 7th, 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $25.
In Birmingham, AL, Christopher Hitchens will make a public appearance to debate the author of “The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions” (and a guy seen in Ben Stein’s Expelled), David Berlinski. The topic is “How Atheism Poisons Everything.”
More information can be found here and here.
According to Lori Lenz, who is doing press for the Fixed Point Foundation and who confirmed Hitchens’ appearance late Thursday, Hitchens is “bored” with his cancer treatments and is looking forward to going to Alabama for the debate.
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Sunday, September 12th, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Free of charge.
The Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago will have Robert Price, professor of theology at Coleman Theological Seminary and a host of the Point of Inquiry podcast, speak on “The Gospels: History or Literature?”
More information can be found here.
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Friday, October 1st, 2:15 p.m. Free of charge.
At Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, The American Humanist Association’s president, David Niose, will debate the Pastor of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho (and Hitchens’ opponent in the documentary Collision), Doug Wilson.
The topic? “A Debate on Christianity and Humanism: Which is the better path for culture, law, and government?”
That event is sponsored by The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies.
More details can be found here (PDF).
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