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Last month Russell Brand visited Jordan Peterson's podcast for an episode titled The Evolution of Theology.

It's been an eventful time for Russell, like other conspiratorialists that we've covered here on the

podcast and indeed like some right-leaning contrarian atheists, Russell has

been increasingly drawn to both Christianity and to framing wokness, censorship, and Joe Biden as the real

threat, the real threat to democracy in this election year.

And being that Russell Brand, as some people may know,

is a bit of an exhibitionist.

His trajectory has now included announcing

and also posting evidence of his Christian baptism on social media and more recently

just jumping the shark with this statement about democracy.

For a long time, Elizabeth, I've been concerned about the snobbery and contempt and condemnation

in which people that support Donald Trump are plainly held by his detractors.

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