No 'Collision' in Ottawa Pub

September 4, 2010


By Kenyon Wallace
An Ottawa pub has refused to host an Anglican church group’s film night, fearing the movie’s debate over the existence of God may offend religious pub-goers.
The Heart & Crown pub says it decided to pull the plug on St. Alban’s Anglican Church’s showing this week of the movie Collision — a documentary featuring well-known atheist Christopher Hitchens and evangelical theologian Douglas Wilson — after seeing a pamphlet advertising the film.

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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

The pub owner didn't even watch the film! Heart and Crown is hardly a haven for democratic free speech. Real-time intolerance that prove's many of Mr. Hitchen's points. Pathetic.

Anonymous said...

Religion does poison everything . . . including those trying to find the comfort of "god" at the bottom of a glass and stein. We live in one of the most technologically advanced societies yet our inferior bretheren continues to breed and incubate religious nonsense: backward teachings and a philosophy spoofed and spawned by illiterate and nomadic bronze age tribes and herds. Cheers and bottoms up!

FGFM said...

Hitch is the curse of the drinking class.

Anonymous said...

So, wait, a church group was going to hold a movie night and the pub owner thought that a movie selected by a group of church-goers would offend a bunch of church-going people?

I don't get it.

The Happy Jesuit said...

The manager of the Crown and Anchor somewhat oddly described the pub as an “Irish Catholic institution.” If true, chances are patrons object more to Wilson, the Protestant, than Hitchens, the atheist. Catholics and atheists both know one thing- there's no way they can communicate w/ God. Protestants, and the "personal relationship with God" claptrap they've been selling since Luther are truly objectionable.

Tom said...

Phantom Observer will enjoy his Guinness elsewhere http://phantomobserver.com/blog/?p=4355

Anonymous said...

"Hitch is the curse of the drinking class."

Witless.

Anonymous said...

No great loss Wilson is an idiot, who always looks amusingly uncertain while around Hitchens.

FGFM said...

Witless

Oh, you're driving me Wilde.

 
 
 

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