Original upload date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 01:36:54 GMT
This is an excerpt from an interview with Dr. Robert M. Price by Brian Flemming, from the DVD extras (extended interviews) to Flemming's 2005 documentary, 'The God Who Wasn't There.' In this excerpt,
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Robert Price explains what it means to be a Christian atheist; why atheists need not reject Jesus (as many do); and what it means to have a religious ceremony without belief in a supernatural being (how the religious symbol is not "merely a symbol," but "no less than a symbol," as Paul Tillich put it in 'Dynamics of Faith.') Finally, he lays out what he sees as drawbacks to the standard-issue conception of a "personal Jesus" or "personal savior."
Update: An interesting comparison is the clip, "Slavoj Zizek — Atheist Christianity" (March 15, 2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEuY46p5yH4