Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right?

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The great art of Eastern Christianity, including the first ever fresco, a charismatic movement founded in Los Angeles of all places that has storm the global south and

is the largest religious movement of the poor in the world, and a novel where a Londoner

goes to the south-west to build a church.

Within days his intention to build alone by an act of will had become a shared enterprise, a job of work.

There were no miracles. It would cost lives.

More from Neil Griffithson, as a God might be later.

Now perhaps these are all signs that religion is back, or perhaps it never went away,

and has just barged back into the public realm.

Just take Christianity our subject this evening.

There are now more Christians in China than Communist Party members.

US politics is partly driven by Christian allegiances

and at a more micro level the attendance at churches in London

has leapt more than 15% due to the commitment of black London Christians.

And this isn't even to mention that the fine secular philosopher,

Jürgen Habermas, has spent much of his time recently with religion,

saying it has much to contribute to the public realm.

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