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Third Rail Sunday 5:30pm ET/2:30pm PT

Religion Debate: Meet the Guests

by Hermela Aregawi @HermelaTV May 14, 2015 7:00PM ET

An atheist, an evangelical Christian and a Muslim scholar debate whether religion does more harm than good

Topics:
Religion, Spirituality & Ethics
Islam
International
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Daniel Dennett

Atheist scholar

Cognitive scientist

Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University

 

"It seems to me that faith is a sort of gold-plated excuse not to think.

Daniel Dennett

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Larry Alex Taunton

Evangelical Christian

Executive Director of Fixed Point Foundation, a Christian based foundation 

 
“Every meaningful reform movement in the West has been motivated by a Judeo-Christian world view”

Larry Alex Taunton

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Imam Zaid Shakir

Muslim scholar

Co-founder and senior faculty member of Zaytuna College, the first accredited Muslim liberal arts college in the United States. 

 
You can’t say that ISIS all of a sudden woke up one day and they discovered the violent verses in the Koran and all hell broke out... we need to step back and analyze what are the true motivations.

Imam Zaid Shakir

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