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Theos chides critics of religious opponents of assisted dying

‘Claiming that your opponents are fundamentally lying for covert (religious) reasons is not an appealing way of conducting public debate’, says Nick Spencer. 13/06/2025

Nick Spencer unpacks the argument of his recent essay, “How much have your religious views influenced your decision?”: religion and the assisted dying debate in Church Times article.

You can read the essay in full here.


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Nick Spencer

Nick Spencer

Nick is Senior Fellow at Theos. He is the author of a number of books and reports, including Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion (Oneworld, 2023), The Political Samaritan: how power hijacked a parable (Bloomsbury, 2017), The Evolution of the West (SPCK, 2016) and Atheists: The Origin of the Species (Bloomsbury, 2014). He is host of the podcast Reading Our Times.

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Posted 13 June 2025

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