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When atheists stole the moral high ground

When atheists stole the moral high ground

Nick Spencer reviews Alec Ryrie’s Unbelievers. 08/11/2019

The heart of Ryrie’s argument is not that Christianity forged the intellectual weapons that its enemies thereafter used, but that it forged the moral ones, writes Nick Spencer in his review of Alec Ryrie’s Unbelievers. 

Read his review here.


 

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Nick Spencer

Nick Spencer

Nick is Senior Fellow at Theos. He is the author of a number of books and reports, including Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion (Oneworld, 2023), The Political Samaritan: how power hijacked a parable (Bloomsbury, 2017), The Evolution of the West (SPCK, 2016) and Atheists: The Origin of the Species (Bloomsbury, 2014). He is host of the podcast Reading Our Times.

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Posted 8 November 2019

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