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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Who Killed God? Well, like on the Orient Express, they all done it. Voltaire, David Hume, that bearded we freethinker René Descartes with his deadly rationality.

Yep, they invented the Enlightenment and surely, but absolutely, they snuffed out God and paved the way

for atheism. Yes? Well, actually, no. Or not according to Alec Riry of Durham University,

because Alex's the award-winning author of books including Protestants, the faith that made the

modern world. But his new work, Unbelievers, an emotional history of doubt,

takes a rather different line,

saying that people started to lose faith first,

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