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277. David Baddiel: The Atheist Who Loves God

heretics. | andrew gold

Andrew Gold

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4968 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Comedian David Baddiel talks about his new book The God Desire, musing on his and our desire to believe, why he wishes he did believe, why he loves god and why people succumb to magical thinking. Get David's new book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/God-Desire-David-Baddiel/dp/000855028X Andrew Links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok https://www.patreon.com/andrewgold Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to another episode of On the Edge with Andrew Gold. I've got David Badele on a comedian

1:07.1

writer, a polemacist, I'm not even entirely. I've never quite known what polemacist

1:11.0

means. Is it someone who writes things that are sort of make people think and can be controversial back and forward? I don't know, but he is somebody who I've long been a huge, huge fan of, he's been on the show before and I'm really really grateful that he came back on

1:24.9

he's just written a book called the God Desire which at the very beginning I say so you wrote the

1:29.3

God Delusion and he says no that's Richard, but we've left that in I think.

1:34.0

So yes, he's written a book about atheism, okay?

1:37.0

And I know a lot of my listeners, a lot of my viewers are not atheists.

1:41.0

They might be agnostics or they might be believers and everybody is

1:44.4

welcome and I think that's the point of David's book as well that he has a lot of

1:48.0

respect for religion and he loves the idea of God and the story of Christianity and it's a really refreshing

1:56.0

look at these things and we discuss today some quite bleak things but also you know how to think

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