You Don't Gotta Believe

Related Content

• Oswald: The Actual Interrogation, a Play About the Kennedy Assassination
  February 9, 2012
• The Convert and The Magic Bullet Theory, Plays About Accidental Killings
  April 26, 2012
• Christopher Hitchens, Movie Critic
  December 29, 2011
• Candida, and other New Theater Reviews . . .
  February 22, 2012
• Safety in Rubbers
  February 16, 2012

More About

• Vincent Bugliosi
• O.J. Simpson
• Lee Harvey Oswald
• Atheism and Agnosticism
• Religion

Like this Story?

Get the Events Newsletter: What's happening in town? From underground club nights to the biggest outdoor festivals, our top picks for the week's best events will always keep you in on the action.

Make sign up easy with:

What's eating Vincent Bugliosi? Maybe he's been spending too much time taking on the world's evildoers — Charles Manson, O.J. Simpson, Lee Harvey Oswald — or maybe at the age of 76 he's hedging his bets on whether he'll end up frying in hell or welcomed at the pearly gates. The country's pre-eminent attorney is now taking on the ultimate opponent — God. But he's not going the way of Christopher Hitchens and advocating balls-out atheism. Tonight, Bugliosi makes a compelling case for agnosticism as he discusses and signs his highly controversial book, Divinity of Doubt: The God Question, a treatise that knocks down both theism and atheism. He believes that no religion has a corner on the truth. Rather than believe in myths and fairy tales (Original sin? C'mon. Virgin birth? Puh-leeze), he makes a sound argument for believing only in what can be proved and following the age-old credo, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." By drawing such simple conclusions, as well as disputing fundamental religious doctrine, he has single-handedly managed to outrage followers of all practices, including Christians, Protestants, Jews, Mormons, Buddhists, Wiccans, Sikhs, Muslims and atheists.
Tue., June 21, 7 p.m., 2011