The fusion of Sol’s grief and intellect have made him a formidable apologist for unbelief. It’s an experience he can neither forget nor ignore. “A miracle,” one doctor says.ĭuring those four minutes, Sol Harkens has an experience that causes him to question everything he’s so argued against, everything he’s built his career upon. But after a book release party in which Sol does indeed down multiple beverages, he gets in his Mercedes to drive back to his posh-but-solitary apartment.įor four minutes, doctors tell him, Sol Harkens was clinically dead. Such passionate vitriol would not mark Sol as a likely candidate to become a believer in anything other than his next soul-numbing drink. You wanna know what my religious credo is? Party on, Wayne!” “Nobody ever committed genocide in the name of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll,” he bellows. But the world’s most famous atheist is just getting warmed up. But he should have bloody well kept His hands off mine.” “Because if he felt like sacrificing His only begotten son, well, that’s His business.

“Don’t you dare tell me about the love and compassion of your so-called God,” Sol rages. And Sol’s not about to give a God who would take his boy credit for being good. “ My only begotten son.” But cancer claimed the boy when he was 8. Is there truly a loving, compassionate God? One who would send His “only begotten Son” to save humanity? Sol is not having any of that: “ I had a beautiful, perfect, glorious son,” he spits. Sol Harkens, author of Aborting God: The Reasoned Choice, takes on a Christian apologetics expert in a highly publicized debate. You don’t become the world’s most famous atheist by being nice.

And then there was light the movie