September 17, 2009
Dangerous Ideas to host atheist, archbishop and feminist
If you can somehow catch a cheap fast flight to Australia you should enjoy this new festival on Oct 3rd at Sydney Opera House.
Insight Scoop Reports;
The Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, English-born international journalist, atheist and provocateur, Christopher Hitchens and outspoken feminist and academic, Germaine Greer are among the keynote speakers at Australia’s first-ever Festival of Dangerous Ideas to be held at the Sydney Opera House on Saturday 3 October and Sunday 4 October. “Without God We Are Nothing” is the title of the Archbishop’s address to the Festival on Sunday evening when he will draw not only on his own profound faith and scholarship but on scientific figures such as physicist Stephen Hawking, who despite his revolutionary model of the laws of physics and lifetime of research, admitted in “A Brief History of Time” that he was no closer to knowing whether God existed or not, “only that God was arbitrary.” Continue reading
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Cardinal Pell is a first-class thinker and an eloquent speaker. I have read his articles and interviews and heard him speak at World Youth Day in Sydney last year. He has a fresh, compelling way of addressing modern secular attitudes. I’m glad tickets to his address at this event are a third the cost of Hitchens’s. The more who come to hear Cardinal Pell, the better.