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30 Renowned Writers Speaking About God

30 Renowned Writers Speaking About God Speakers in order of appearance: 1. Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Science Fiction Writer 2. Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Laureate in Literature 3. Professor Isaac Asimov, Author and Biochemist 4. Arthur Miller, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright 5. Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate in Literature 6. Gore Vidal, Award-Winning Novelist and Political Activist 7. Douglas Adams, Best-Selling Science Fiction Writer 8. Professor Germaine Greer, Writer and Feminist 9. Iain Banks, Best-Selling Fiction Writer 10. José Saramago, Nobel Laureate in Literature 11. Sir Terry Pratchett, NYT Best-Selling Novelist 12. Ken Follett, NYT Best-Selling Author 13. Ian McEwan, Man Booker Prize-Winning Novelist 14. Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate (1999-2009) 15. Professor Martin Amis, Award-Winning Novelist 16. Michel Houellebecq, Goncourt Prize-Winning French Novelist 17. Philip Roth, Man Booker Prize-Winning Novelist 18. Margaret Atwood, Booker Prize-Winning Author and Poet 19. Sir Salman Rushdie, Booker Prize-Winning Novelist 20. Norman MacCaig, Renowned Scottish Poet 21. Phillip Pullman, Best-Selling British Author 22. Dr Matt Ridley, Award-Winning Science Writer 23. Harold Pinter, Nobel Laureate in Literature 24. Howard Brenton, Award-Winning English Playwright 25. Tariq Ali, Award-Winning Writer and Filmmaker 26. Theodore Dalrymple, English Writer and Psychiatrist 27. Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-Winning Novelist 28. Redmond O'Hanlon FRSL, British Writer and Scholar 29. Diana Athill, Award-Winning Author and Literary Editor 30. Christopher Hitchens, Best-Selling Author, Award-Winning Columnist User: spam_vigilante Jan 24, 2012 1:54 PM

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Terry Pratchett - Choosing to die

Terry Pratchett - Choosing to die In Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die, He explores the realities of medically assisted death. Having been diagnosed with a rare form of early onset Alzheimer's disease in 2008, Terry considers how he might choose to end his life as his condition progresses. In a moving documentary he meets those who, like him, would like to control the way they die including a men suffering from degenerative conditions and he is with a British motor neurone sufferer as he carries out an assisted death at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland. mailonsunday.co.uk/?news/?article-1203622/?Ill-die-endgame-says-Terry-Pratchett-law-allow-assisted-suicides-UK.html User: runarounddead Jun 30, 2011 1:18 PM

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Terry Pratchett Tells a Dirty Joke

Terry Pratchett Tells a Dirty Joke During his appearance at a theatre in Berlin, promoting his new book Thud!, famous comic fantasy writer Terry Pratchett tells a dirty joke. May 28, 2008 4:54 AM

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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov A Russian American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books.

Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams An English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. Author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series and cowriter of Doctor Who. Self-described radical atheist.

Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens A British-American author, journalist and literary critic. He is known for his iconoclasm, atheism, antitheism and anti-monarchism.

Homophobia

Homophobia Fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals. Several dictionaries also associate irrationality with this type of fear.

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Evolution

Evolution The change in the inherited traits of a population of organisms from one generation to the next. These changes are caused by a combination of three main processes: variation, reproduction, and selection.

Highbrow

Highbrow The intellectual pursuits of the elite.

Cults and Religions

Cults and Religions A set of beliefs and practices generally held by a community, involving adherence to codified beliefs and rituals and study of ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and mystic experience.

Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Sci-Fi and Fantasy A gere of fiction -- often featuring a spirit of inquisitiveness and adventure -- based on alternative visions of science and technology (Science Fiction) and/or the fantastic and supernatural (Fantasy).

Science

Science A body of techniques for investigating phenomena and acquiring new knowledge -- as well as for correcting and integrating previous knowledge -- based on gathering observable, empirical, measurable evidence, subject to specific principles of reasoning.

Cinema

Cinema Cinema encompases individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. It is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment, and a powerful method of educatiion and indoctrination.

Celebrities

Celebrities Widely-recognized or famous people who command a high degree of public and media attention.

Politics

Politics The processes, methods and tactics by which groups of people formulate decisions and apply policy.

Video Clips

Video Clips The technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.

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