Rev Richard Coles and Richard Dawkins dine across the divide: ‘The problem is he’s not swayed by evidence but by feeling’

But I was an atheist from the age of eight, unshakably certain that the universe was a material phenomenon.My grandfather’s death. I remember hearing people say well-intentioned phrases about him having gone to a better place, but I couldn’t get past the idea of him decomposing in a grave – it just seemed to me that was what was going on.Yes, as well as decomposing. Once I got to the other side of accepting faith then all sorts of possibilities opened up.

Sign up to our Inside Saturday newsletter for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the making of the magazine’s biggest features, as well as a curated list of our weekly highlights.Some of it, but it’s more about the way it makes people feel fully alive, what it does to people and for people, and I’m sure a Muslim or a Jew or an atheist would be able to give you examples of that according to their own light.

I think there is this idea in our public discourse that the force of your opinion and the force of your feeling and the passionate adherence to a belief is what validates it, and I don’t think that’s true. I’d much rather talk something through, look at inconsistencies and incongruences.What is difficult arguing with Richard is he is not swayed by factual evidence; it is feeling that matters. Feelings are important, but they don’t tell us what is true.

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He's so annoying that reverend

Feels before reals. We now live in the age of emotionalism.

Divide, lol. Two White, middle class, pro Establishment, men. Pull the other one! 😂😂😂

Whereas Dawkins is swayed by fascism.

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