Justin Brierley: The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God — Stand to Reason Podcast
Greg interviews Justin Brierley, author of “The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God: Why New Atheism Grew Old and Secular Thinkers Are Considering Christianity Again,” about the rise and fall of the New Atheist movement, why he thanks God for Richard Dawkins, a shift in many atheists’ view of Christianity, and more.
0:00 Interview with Justin Brierley
4:33 Did the atheists on Justin’s show ever “shake” him?
5:51 “The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God”
7:15 Insights from “Unbelievable” and how the conversation changed
13:00 “Thank God for Richard Dawkins“
18:10 How the extreme Left created common cause
28:25 Why has it taken so long for people to realize that reality matches Christian Theism?
42:48 Jordan Peterson, the pre-eminent example of secular thinkers considering Christianity again
52:30 Last thoughts
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Justin Brierley: https://justinbrierley.com/
“The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God” by Justin Brierley: https://www.amazon.com/Surprising-Rebirth-Belief-God-Christianity/dp/1496466772/
The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God podcast: https://justinbrierley.com/surprisingrebirth/
“Unbelievable?” by Justin Brierley: https://www.amazon.com/Unbelievable-After-Talking-Atheists-Christian/dp/0281077983/
“Coming to Faith Through Dawkins”: https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Faith-Through-Dawkins-Christianity/dp/0825448220/
“The Air We Breathe” by Glen Scrivener: https://www.amazon.com/Air-We-Breathe-Kindness-Progress-ebook/dp/B09S6N1QHZ/
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What I always loved about Justin at the helm of "Unbelievable?" was – if a guest stated a question awkwardly (often on the non-theistic side of a conversation) he would state what the person meant. That takes so much grace and served his audience well, I think.
For more on New Atheism, see Greg’s three-part series, “Answering the New Atheists.”
Read part 1: https://rsn.pub/4byG14z
Read part 2: https://rsn.pub/3uzH6s5
Read part 3: https://rsn.pub/3OFveeQ
Athiesm has failed to take hold because the worlds scientific knowledge is availiable to anyone with a cell phone. I grew up thinking academia had debunked a intentional creator and did not research the issue until dawkins and the new athiests went on their world tour! Hearing their rudimemtary illogical claims of a random cosmos simply opened my eyes to the possibility of a intentional causal agent and thus the research began in Ernest. Athiesm can be rendered illogical absurdity by simply pointing out the known,quantifiable workings of reality. There really is no logical argument for athiesm if one makes conclusions based on logical known realty. Its really that simple.
Freedom, equality came from enlightenment thinkers who were DEISTS not Christians. Christianity upheld a feudal system for over a millennium.
This was fantastic!
BTW 'teleos' originally meant a 'target' in ancient Greek. Also referred to the end post in a chariot race.
Atheists have become more confident to speak up and call a spade a spade because of the so-called "new atheist movement". Meanwhile, Christianity in the West devolved into a cult of apologetics, and it's in a state of indisputable decline. Pointing to Jordan Peterson as an example of a rebirth in Christianity is not only laughable, it simply reeks of desperation.
This was a really good conversation. Thank you.
I enjoyed the stream
God bless (: