The God Delusion
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Sep 20, 2026
Patrick KennedyHOST
The age of the intellect at its peak and studying the world through our senses and out of that study trying to discover the laws at work in the natural world.
Patrick KennedyHOST
And some of its more famous proponents who also then carry an ideology out of that scientific experience, like Richard Dawkins, who wrote books like The God Delusion.
Patrick KennedyHOST
We look everywhere in nature to discover what's ruling there, and we are not finding the divinity.
Patrick KennedyHOST
And in this essay, Rudolf Steiner doesn't go, uh-huh, he's there.
Bible BardHOST
Richard Dawkins said, the God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction, end quote.
Bible BardHOST
That's from The God Delusion.
Bible BardHOST
And Christopher Hitchens stated, quote, I am born under a celestial dictatorship which I could not have had any hand in choosing," as from his debate with Alastair Moorath.
Bible BardHOST
And then Bertrand Russell stated, quote, I must say that I think all this doctrine, this hellfire, is a punishment for sin, is a doctrine of cruelty, end quote, from why I am not a Christian.
Vanessa BentleyGUEST
I read God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens.
Vanessa BentleyGUEST
I read The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
Vanessa BentleyGUEST
I read The End of Faith by Sam Harris.
Vanessa BentleyGUEST
Like I set out to systematically take apart my faith and it worked.
Adam FranciscoHOST
[laughs] Yeah, well.
Adam FranciscoHOST
Anyway, so, um, y- you know, with the, uh, n- with 9/11, um, especially with Sam Harris, what's really interesting also in, in that literature is, uh, Sam Harris is the first to do it, but y- it pops up again r- in Richard Dawkins', um, rhetoric and also his book, um, what was it called? Uh, The God Delusion, I think.
Adam FranciscoHOST
And then Christopher Hitchen had, had a book called The, uh, God Is Not Great.
David AndersenHOST
Yeah.
Arsalan AhmadiHOST
Yes, I think that's what it is.
Arsalan AhmadiHOST
The God Delusion.
Daniyal QaloonHOST
The God Delusion, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Arsalan AhmadiHOST
And The Magic, I'm just looking at some of his books.
Daniyal QaloonHOST
Yeah, I think his big one was The God Delusion and I think The God Gene.
Daniyal QaloonHOST
Or The Selfish Gene.
Daniyal QaloonHOST
The Selfish Gene, yes, yes.
Steve VaughanGUEST
And for people of my age, we remember living through the very aggressive four new atheists of Dawkins, Harris, Dennett, Dennis, and Hitchens in the 2000s.
Steve VaughanGUEST
who wrote multiple books with titles like The God Delusion that sold in their millions.
Steve VaughanGUEST
When I was at university, these people were making aggressive arguments against the light.
Steve VaughanGUEST
It was intimidating to be a Christian.
Pat DonohoeGUEST
Ten years ago, the wider culture around us was so antagonistic towards the faith.
Pat DonohoeGUEST
In 2010, every uni student, when I became a Christian, every uni student happened to be walking around with a copy of Richard Dawkins' book, The God Delusion.
Pat DonohoeGUEST
And they had this atheist convention in Melbourne.
Pat DonohoeGUEST
It had thousands and thousands of people at it.
Karl FaaseHOST
Because this show pops up at exactly the same time as...
Karl FaaseHOST
the whole Richard Dawkins, God Delusion, Christopher Hitchens, and that became the question in the public square, wasn't
Justin BrierleyGUEST
it? It did, it did.
Justin BrierleyGUEST
I mean, just the following year, 2008, 2009, there was the Atheist Bus Campaign, don't know if you remember that? Yes, yes.
Justin BrierleyGUEST
Red London buses circulating the capital bearing this slogan, there's probably no God, now stop worrying and enjoy your life.
Justin BrierleyGUEST
Richard Dawkins, God Delusion had become this bestseller, you had Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris with their own bestselling anti-God book.
Justin BrierleyGUEST
So suddenly I found myself, absolutely, I launched this debate show between Christians and atheists just at the time when, in the public sphere, these questions were being put out there in a new way.
Justin BrierleyGUEST
I've
Pete HughesGUEST
And the more we depart from that story, the more of a mess we find ourselves in.
Pete HughesGUEST
So whether it be Iron Hershey Alley, Neil Ferguson, Tom Holland, the historian, not Spider-Man, Douglas Murray, Jordan Peterson, even Richard Dawkins, the author of The God Delusion, basically saying we need a return, and this is their remedy, we need a return to cultural Christianity.
Pete HughesGUEST
Now, our response as the people of God is, no, we need a mass return to Jesus.
Pete HughesGUEST
His life, his death, his resurrection is what transforms us and transforms the culture.
Joel BirchGUEST
And so I was very much like, bam, like straight into that.
Joel BirchGUEST
That was really big, and I read The God Delusion, and I was just, like, so angry.
Ash McGregorHOST
Oh, wow.
Joel BirchGUEST
Yeah.
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