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Atheism for Lent is carefully curated to draw participants into a profound, destabilizing and life-altering event…

The Death of God

While the Apostle Paul was the first to assert the death of God as an event with universal, emancipatory significance, it was Nietzsche who most famously revived this insight for the modern world.

Like Paul, Nietzsche proclaimed that this torturous experience was ultimately a liberating one that each one of us - theist, atheist, agnostic alike - must enter into.

Paul, the Ambassador of Christ, and Nietzsche, the self-proclaimed Anti-Christ, united in preaching the Good News of Good Friday.

It is precisely this scandalous idea that the gatekeepers of confessional theology and modern atheism soundly reject: either God is real and cannot die, or isn’t real and cannot die. For both, the notion of participating in God’s death is poetic at best and nonsense at worst.

In contrast, Atheism for Lent invites the intrepid pilgrim to explore the philosophical import of this idea. But this is not primarily an intellectual journey. More fundamentally, it is an existential one in which you will be invited to experience this liberating event.

What to Expect

This course is made up of three parts,

Each day of Lent you will be emailed a reflection, along with lots of supplemental material for those who wish to go deeper. The material includes a carefully curated treasure trove of articles, podcasts, book excerpts and videos. Each week builds on the last to guide the participant deeper into the experience.
I will be acting as a guide to the material, by offering an introductory lecture every week.
There will also be a weekly processing room for people who want to talk about their experience with others in the course.

dates

22nd February - 6th April

Individual Ticket

You can purchase a ticket here or join my Patreon community at the Blaze Level. The latter will also give you access to 100’s of hours of other material.

Facilitator ticket

This ticket is for people who want to facilitate their own group during the course. Whether you’re thinking of doing this in a more established setting or you just want to get together with friends, this ticket has you covered. It includes up to 12 individual tickets, advance access to all the material and a 90 minute interactive video call with me in advance of the course. This video call is designed to help you in the art of facilitating Atheism for Lent groups. If you’d like more than 12 access codes, just drop me an email.