Agnostic and Christian debate to launch religious symposium

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Fri Oct-21-11 06:58 AM
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Agnostic and Christian debate to launch religious symposium

The compatibility of faith and historical events has been questioned by many scholars over the years. Science in religion, religion in state matters, and faith and reason remain controversial topics of discussion in our society.

This was also the debate between an agnostic academic and a professor of faith as they opened the �On Religion in the 21st Century� symposium Monday night, presented by the UK Gaines Center for the Humanities.

Bart Ehrman, a professor in the department of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said for him, personally, �history and faith are not compatible.�

http://kykernel.com/2011/10/10/religion/

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Fri Oct-21-11 07:14 AM
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1. Few debates are less satisfying to both parties than religious ones

and debating an agnostic whose belief system is summed up by a shrug must be especially frustrating for the certain.

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Fri Oct-21-11 07:49 AM
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2. I'm not so sure about that.

Ehrman is extremely educational. I'm reading one of his books right now, and I find it engrossing. And although Ehrman reserves for himself the wishy-washy title of "agnostic," he has some definite theological position. He wrote a book on the problem of evil, and how neither the Hebrew not the Greek portions of the Bible answer the question to satisfaction.

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