A woman raised in a Christian home, now an atheist, stands up on campus to tell Cliffe Knechtle she feels she was indoctrinated as a child. His response shifts the conversation from the Bible's hardest passages to whether right and wrong can even exist without God.
She explains why she left the faith, pointing to what she calls immoral stories in the Bible and a theory for why humans invented gods in the first place. Cliffe turns her own outrage at racism, slavery, and cruelty back on her, arguing it only makes sense if objective right and wrong are real.
Other voices in the crowd join in from there. One points to the rapid growth of the early church as evidence for the resurrection. Others push Cliffe on Christianity's history with racism, which leads him to Martin Luther King Jr.'s response to segregationist preachers in Birmingham. Another raises one of theology's toughest questions: what happens to people who never hear the name of Jesus?
It's an unscripted, back-and-forth debat...
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