This year, the theme of the conference is
“Apologetics and the Problem of Hell.”
Bertrand Russell famously wrote, “There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ’s moral character, and that is that he believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.”
Sam Harris, one of the infamous “four horsemen” of New Atheism, said the God of Christianity “is cruel and unjust because he visits suffering on innocent people [in hell] of a scope and scale that would embarrass the most ambitious psychopath.”