Can we be good without God?

Posted by Laurence, 19/04/2010

LIVE DEBATE! A humanist and an Vicar meet and discuss... Can we be good without God?

On Saturday 8th May 2010 at 7pm, Gunnersbury Baptist Church hosts its third date in a series of live, controversial, exciting public debates surrounding the questions raised between Atheist views and Biblical Christianity.

This next debate promises to be exciting, stimulating and passionate as the subject in question is about the origins of human morality. Where does our sense of right and wrong come from?

Our two speakers who will debate this subject are experts in this field and are renowned communicators.

Professor Richard Norman is a Vice President of the British Humanist Association under President Polly Toynbee and Professor Richard Dawkins. He is Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy and founder-member of the Humanist Philosophers' Group. He taught philosophy at the University of Kent, working mainly in the areas of moral and political philosophy, including both theoretical and practical ethics. His books include "The Moral Philosophers" (a critical introduction to philosophical ethics from Plato to the present), "Free and Equal" (a defence of an egalitarian conception of social justice), "Ethics, Killing and War"(which explores the difficulty of justifying participation in war but stops short of an absolute pacifist position), and "On Humanism".

Reverend John Richardson is an Anglican minister of St. Peter's Church, Ugey, Bishop's Stortford, on the western edge of Essex, in the Diocese of Chelmsford. He was ordained in 1976 after studying at St John's College, Nottingham. He is the author of a popular commentary on the book of Revelation and a popular book called "What God has made clean: If we can eat prawns, why is gay sex wrong?". John is a lively, regular online debater and blogger and blogs under the name "The Ugley Vicar".

The debate will incorporate a time of open questions from the floor.

Anyone is welcome regardless of beliefs, worldview or opinion.

Date: Saturday 8th May

Time: 7.00pm

Cost is free and refreshments will be provided.

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