Hot debate at Wilfrid Laurier University: MORALITY: Natural or Supernatural? Thursday March 18, 7:30 pm, Bricker Academic Building, Room 201. All welcome! Admission: free for SOFREE members and students; $5 general public. Click HERE or on poster below to see campus map.
MARIANO GRINBANK, also known as MARIANO APOLOGETICUS, is an Argentinean-American Messianic Jew, researcher, and lecturer, who has been involved in Christian apologetics for nearly a decade. He attended private Jewish school and had his Bar Mitzvah in Israel. He was involved in the New Age Movement and was a practitioner of Reiki, Tai Chi Chuan, Chi Kung and I’Ching. For over six years he has been involved with the apologetics ministry at Calvary Chapel of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and has lectured at the Santa Fe Conference on Biblical Discernment. He runs a contra-atheism blog called Atheism is Dead and a Christian apologetics blog called Life and Doctrine. Mariano will argue that God is the source of morality while materialistic concepts lack the ability to account for moral values, duties and accountability.
MICHAEL SIZER-WATT is a local atheist activist with a keen interest in moral philosophy. As a member of the prominent fellowship, Society of Ontario Freethinkers, and co-organizer of the social meetup, Grand River Atheists, he helps coordinate guest speakers who express secular views on philosophical topics and contributes articles and interviews for Canadian Freethinker magazine. An armchair moral theorist, Michael asserts that ethics are rooted in objective principles rather than in any concepts of any deities. He will present a case for the multiple components that comprise the system of our moral sense, as well as recommendations for justifying our moral convictions without appealing to religious dogma.
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SOFREE Brunch
Join us at the HUETHER HOTEL for a delicious brunch, great conversation, book reviews and much more!
SUNDAY MARCH 21, 2010
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Huether Hotel
Lion Brewery (downstairs)
59 King Street North, Waterloo
Free parking at Waterloo Public Library. Two parking lots (off Albert St & Dupont St). Street parking on King St. Please confirm attendance by March 20 at: sofree.secretary@yahoo.ca