Can We Live Without Religion? - Alex O'Connor

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Alex O’Connor, formerly known as ‘Cosmic Skeptic’, is a public speaker, debater, and host of the Within Reason Podcast. A graduate of philosophy and theology from St. John’s College, Oxford University, Alex has produced videos with the likes of Ben Shapiro, Peter Singer, Richard Dawkins, Bishop Robert Barron and Peter Hitchens. Go to http://givesendgo.com/triggerpod Raise or give money for anything important to you. Check out Barro’s GiveSendGo campaign here: https://www.givesendgo.com/barro SPONSOR: https://GETSUPERBEETS.COM Use Promo Code: TRIG to get a free 30-day supply + 15% off your first order Join our Premium Membership for early access, extended and ad-free content: https://triggernometry.supercast.com OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | [email protected] | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: [email protected] Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/#mailinglist Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Human beings are a religious animal,
0:32.0	and in the absence of actual religion we will begin to seek others which is one of the reasons to put it crudely our society is so fucked up right now.
0:42.0	My position is that I just don't think this is true.
0:45.0	What do you want me to do here?
0:47.0	If we remove religion from our society, things go downhill.
0:51.0	Okay, what do you want me to do?
0:52.0	I don't think this is true. Do I just sort of just lie to my children?
0:56.0	It's not that people shouldn't question religion, it's the denigration of religion, has that been been beneficial and that's where I started to
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