Rudyard Griffiths

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3,754 appearances 38 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

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The Munk Debates Podcast · Be it resolved, religion is a force for good in the world · 31 Aug 2026 podcast

Needless to say, it was an unforgettable debate, two great minds wrestling with one of the biggest issues of our time.

Do we need God to be good?

As with all our live monk debates, the audience voted on the resolution prior to the debate.

Initially, twenty five percent of attendees voted in favor, fifty-five against, twenty percent were undecided.

We did another poll at the end of the debate to find out how the evening had changed people's minds, but before we reveal the final vote results, let's jump into the debate with Christopher Hitchens opening remarks, arguing against the motion, be it resolved, religion is a force for good in the world.

Well Christopher, thank you for starting our debate.

Mr.

Blair, your opening remarks, please.

Well, Tony, your training in Parliament, I can see, had you just perfectly landing that right on the seven minute mark.

Um ladies and gentlemen, uh we're moving into our rebuttal round, uh, and I'd like the audience to get engaged, to uh applaud when they hear something that the debaters say that they like, and also to help me enforce uh our time limits.

So when you see that clock ticking down, uh start applauding and that'll move us through this.

Uh in an orderly uh fashion.

Um so Christopher, it's now your opportunity in our first of two rebuttal rounds to respond to Mr.

Blair.

Uh there's two rounds of rebuttals.

Uh each of you has the opportunity to go back and forth.

And yes, you have four minutes uh for each speaker within each of those rounds, if that's not too confusing.

Uh in the name of uh fairness and equity, Mr.

Blair, I'm gonna give you uh an additional twenty five seconds for your first uh rebuttal.

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