What was the title of Eagleton's 2010 Gifford Lecture?
The God Debate
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Eagleton's 2010 Gifford Lecture was titled "The God Debate". The lecture is a critique of the New Atheism movement, which argues that belief in God is irrational and dangerous. Eagleton argues that the New Atheism is a form of fundamentalism, and that it is just as dogmatic and intolerant as the religious fundamentalism that it opposes.
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