{"id":23890,"date":"2014-04-06T22:53:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T21:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/?p=23890"},"modified":"2018-03-15T21:45:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T21:45:53","slug":"gods-not-dead-author-rice-broocks-on-bbc-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2014\/04\/gods-not-dead-author-rice-broocks-on-bbc-london\/","title":{"rendered":"God’s Not Dead author Rice Broocks on BBC London"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>This morning my friend Rice Broocks was on BBC London<\/a> being interviewed about his book God\u2019s Not Dead and the movie it inspired. The movie opens in the UK on 18th April<\/a> and is currently storming the US Box office charts. To close its second week at the Number 3. position is quite something. <\/p>\n

One of the factors that make this movie so powerful is the ideas which were drawn from Rice\u2019s book. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Rice was asked about a wealth of important questions skeptics often ask this morning. One issue that he turned on its head was \u201cWhat about suffering?\u201d Many atheists bring up suffering like it is some kind of trump card that Aces all the claims of Christians. Rice made the point that Atheism has no real answer for why suffering hurts so much, and doesn\u2019t feel \u201cright.\u201d He said,<\/p>\n

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\u201cAtheism doesn\u2019t take away the pain. Atheism just takes away the hope\u201d<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here is a YouTube clip of the whole interview followed by a SoundCloud audio which you can listen to here or download. You can also read more about Jumoke Fushola\u2019s BBC London show Inspirit<\/a> on which Rice was interviewed.<\/p>\n