The Faculty, Belfast, NI

I’ll be giving a lecture in The Black Box called “God is Undead: The Religion of New Atheism”

Nietzsche once proclaimed that God was dead. But he also noted that the shadow of this dead god remained fixed on the wall of secular culture. Unlike people who celebrated the decline of church life, he claimed that the most vocal despisers of religion were actually still far too religious. While people might have let go of God as the means of finding wholeness, meaning and harmony, they were still trapped in the gravitational pull of these ideas. They were still evangelists, preaching the good news that ones religious impulses could be satisfied in the market place. One sovereignty simply replaced by another. In this lecture Belfast born, LA based writer and philosopher Peter Rollins will use psychoanalytic theory and existential philosophy to critique the prophets of New Atheism for not going far enough. Instead he will propose a more far-reaching and truly disturbing vision.

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