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Deluded Illusions - Response to Richard Dawkins |
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Open Discussions (Formerly known as Abrar Discussions)
Proudly Presents: Deluded Illusions - A Critical Response to Richard Dawkins
With: Dr Tina Beattie
Date: Wednesday, 13th December 2006
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Abrar House, 45 Crawford Place, London, W1H 4LP (off Edgware Road)
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Richard Dawkins and his latest book “The God Delusion” has sparked much dialogue, debate and talk between the Atheists and the Theists.
Dawkins examines God in forms he claims to perceive Him as. He tries to eviscerate the major arguments for religion and opines on the improbability of a Supreme Being. He argues how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children. The God Delusion tries to instil in the readers mind that belief in God is not just wrong but potentially deadly.
Dr Tina Beattie will analyse Dawkins work and in turn will address the downsides of theories put forth by him. She finds that Dawkins is as bigoted and ill informed as the believers he is out to attack. This will prove to be a very emphatically filled evening where you will have ample opportunity to raise any points either for or against Dawkins’ work.
Dr Beattie is a reader in Christian Studies at Roehampton University, London. Her main areas of teaching and research are in theologies and theories of gender, symbolism and ethics, and in religion and human rights. Her doctoral research was on the theology and symbolism of the Virgin Mary, drawing on the psycholinguistic theory of Luce Irigaray as a resource for the analysis of Christian writings on Mary and Eve in the early Church and in recent Roman Catholic theology. Her thesis formed the basis of her book, God's Mother, Eve's Advocate (2002). Her latest book is New Catholic Feminism: Theology and Theory (Routledge 2006). She is currently beginning new research on the representation of women and religion in human rights discourse.
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