{"id":580,"date":"2009-05-28T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/05\/28\/is-religion-a-force-for-good-or-evil\/"},"modified":"2009-05-28T15:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T15:48:00","slug":"is-religion-a-force-for-good-or-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/05\/28\/is-religion-a-force-for-good-or-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"IS RELIGION A FORCE FOR GOOD OR EVIL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Academy of Dramatic Art<br \/>18 Chenies Street, London, WC1E 7PA<\/p>\n<p>Dr Nigel Warburton, Philosophy Lecturer &amp; Author<br \/>Hamza Andreas Tzortzis, International Public Speaker &amp;<br \/>Researcher for the Hittin Institute<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold\">DEBATE: IS RELIGION A FORCE FOR GOOD OR EVIL?<br \/>THURSDAY 18TH JUNE 2009, 6:30PM<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Please book your place: religion.goodorevil@googlemail.com<\/p>\n<p>Tickets: \u00a32.00 at the door<\/p>\n<p>Chaired by: Dr Mark Vernon Writer, Author &amp; Broadcaster<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent poll carried out by YouGov nearly half of the British public think that religion is harmful. However more than half also believe in God or  \u201csomething\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Many argue that belief in God is irrational and harmful to society, they also maintain that religion fuels hatred, bigotry and war. Critics on the other hand say that religion produces great good such as charities, dealing with bereavement and that is the only rational basis for morality.<\/p>\n<p>So who is right? Are we better off without religion or should society have more of it?<br \/>To discuss this and other related issues join our distinguished panel.<\/p>\n<p>www.centrallondonhumanists.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Academy of Dramatic Art18 Chenies Street, London, WC1E 7PA Dr Nigel Warburton, Philosophy Lecturer &amp; AuthorHamza Andreas Tzortzis, International Public Speaker &amp;Researcher for the Hittin Institute DEBATE: IS RELIGION A FORCE FOR GOOD OR EVIL?THURSDAY 18TH JUNE 2009, 6:30PM Please book your place: religion.goodorevil@googlemail.com Tickets: \u00a32.00 at the door Chaired by: Dr Mark Vernon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}