This is the forty-eighth episode of Skepticule — aka the Tri-Paul-Pod
The Skeptical Probe
http://skepticalprobe.blogspot.com/
Paul Orton, militant agnostic
Missing God Gene
http://www.missinggodgene.com/
Paul S. Jenkins
Notes from an Evil Burnee
http://www.evilburnee.co.uk
James Croft and the Harvard Humanists
James Croft: http://harvardhumanist.org/author/james-croft/
Reason Rally 2012 http://reasonrally.org/
Boston's First Atheist/ Humanist Community Centre: http://harvardhumanist.org/2013/05/22/bostons-first-atheist-community-center/
Money-raising for the Community Centre: http://www.gofundme.com/atheistcommunitycenter
See also 'Godless Congregation' section below
Ethical Societies
Boston Ethical Society: http://bostonethical.org/
St. Louis Ethical Society: http://www.ethicalstl.org/
Boston Atheists: http://bostonatheists.org/
South Place Ethical Society (now Conway Hall Ethical Society): http://conwayhall.org.uk/ethical-society
Archive clips from Conway Hall (actually 1975): http://www.youtube.com/watch?client=mv-google&hl=en-GB&gl=GB&v=YZzKwCa0oGA&nomobile=1
The Sunday Assembly
Sunday Assembly http://sundayassembly.com/
Sunday Assembly Everywhere: http://sundayassembly.com/sunday-assembly-everywhere/
York Hall Leisure Centre (new home of the London Sunday Assembly): http://www.better.org.uk/leisure/york-hall-leisure-centre
Skepticule episode 41 on the Sunday Assembly: http://www.skepticule.co.uk/2013/03/skepticule-041-20130203.html (Also on iTunes)
Sunday Assembly tagline: Live better, help often, wonder more
Link to our blogposts on the Sunday Assy
Paul Orton's blog post on the visit: http://www.missinggodgene.com/2013/02/militant-agnostic-goes-to-church.html
Skeptics in the Pub
St. Louis: http://www.meetup.com/skepticalstl/
Boston Interfaith Service
The service: http://www.mass.gov/governor/pressoffice/pressreleases/2013/0417-interfaith-service.html
Secular Coalition for America news release on the Interfaith service: http://secular.org/news/nonbelievers-excluded-interfaith-service-despite-two-humanist-victims-monday%E2%80%99s-bombing
Full Facebook original discussion on the interfaith service: https://www.facebook.com/groups/394221840653567/permalink/452815528127531/ (for the full original discussion)
Paul J's blog post on the discussion in the 'secret' Unbelievable group: http://www.evilburnee.co.uk/search?updated-max=2013-04-20T00:35:00%2B01:00&max-results=7&start=1&by-date=false
James Croft's blog post on the issue: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/templeofthefuture/2013/04/why-would-atheists-want-to-attend-an-interfaith-service/
The Godless Congregation
Greig Epstein- Humanist Chaplain at Harvard http://harvardhumanist.org/harvard/meet-the-staff/Gallup poll referred to by James re about a third of the US being non-religious: http://www.gallup.com/poll/159050/seven-americans-moderately-religious.aspx
Unitarian Universalism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism
Simon & Schuster publishers: http://www.simonandschuster.com
James Croft's email address for those who have attended a godless congregation or have thought about it:research@harvardhumanist.org
Rebecca Vitzmun/ Wolf Blitzer
Interview: "You've gotta thank the Lord, right?" "I'm actually an atheist": http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/atheists-unite?browse_v=new
Glen Beck's Blaze TV is a pay channel, so no link.
Glen Beck says it's a set up: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/24/glenn-beck-wolf-blitzer-atheist_n_3330763.html
Atheist Bus Campaign: http://humanism.org.uk/about/atheist-bus-campaign/
Tim LaHaye: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_LaHaye
American Humanists Association: http://www.americanhumanist.org/
Alpha Course
Simon Clare blog on the Alpha Course: http://lookthroughmyfaithlesseye.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/explore-meaning-of-life-alpha-course.html
Nicky Gumbel & the Alpha Course: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/inside-the-alpha-course--british-christianitys-biggest-success-story-8555160.html
The Pope
Sinbad blog post re getting rid of bling: http://skepticalprobe.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/pope-francis-ditches-bling.html
Pope Francis: Being an atheist is alright as long as you do good: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-francis-being-an-atheist-is-alright-as-long-as-you-do-good-8629390.html
Catholic Church confirms atheists still go to hell, after Pope Francis suggests they might go to heaven: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/catholic-church-confirms-atheists-still-go-to-hell-after-pope-francis-suggests-they-might-go-to-heaven-8634479.html
Catholic teaching on redemption, justification, salvation and forgiveness: http://www.agapebiblestudy.com/charts/the%204%20different%20aspects%20of%20salvation.htm
Jonathan Pearce on the Kalam Cosmological Argument and Libertarian Free Will: http://www.skepticink.com/tippling/2013/05/23/libertarian-free-will-defeats-the-kalam-cosmological-argument/
Roderick Chism, 1964: "Each of us, when we act, is a prime mover unmoved. In doing what we do, we cause certain events to happen, and nothing — or no one — causes us to cause these events to happen."
Robert Kane 1996: "Free will is a power of agents to be the ultimate creators or originators and sustainers of their own ends or purposes." "When we trace the causal or explanatory chains of action back to their sources in the purposes of free agents, these causal chains must come to an end or terminate in the willings (choices, decisions, or efforts) of the agents, which cause or bring about their purposes."
See this link for more: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/incompatibilism-arguments/
William Lane Craig
Wikipedia entry on Kalam Cosmological Argument: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kal%C4%81m_cosmological_argument
William Lane Craig on 'God, Time and Eternity': http://www.reasonablefaith.org/god-time-and-eternity-2
Sinbad's challenge to Eric Hovind: http://skepticalprobe.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/eric-and-sye-only-in-it-for-money.html
Thanks to Paul Orton for editing this episode and providing the shownotes.
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