What’s The Real Truth About Religion? - Alex O’Connor

Alex O’Connor is a YouTuber, writer and a podcaster.

Christianity is nothing new. But it's seeing a resurgence in popularity among some unexpected groups - public intellectuals and Gen Z. What is going on that only shortly after it was cool to be an atheist, it's now cool to go to church on a Sunday again?

Expect to learn whether we are actually seeing a Christian revival, if the new wave of Christianity is just right wing conservatism in disguise, whether you can ‘choose’ to believe in God, if new atheism was a failure, why there is not a current muslim revival, what happened to the gospels that were missing from the original bible, whether there's two Gods in the Old Testament and much more...

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0:00 Are We Seeing a Christian Revival?
07:53 What’s Causing the Rise of Cultural Christianity?
18:46 Is it Possible to Choose to Believe in God?
23:48 Has Christianity Gone Too Soft?
38:49 Experience of Visiting the Vatican
43:49 Is the Rise in Religion Just a Conservative Movement?
57:59 Christianity as a Prophylactic Against Woke
1:05:33 Why Isn’t There an Islamic Revival?
1:15:31 The Gnostic Gospels
1:27:28 The Gnostic Version of Genesis
1:35:47 Why the Bible is Compiled As it is
1:42:13 Christianity’s Antidote to the Meaning Crisis
1:52:40 Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Debate With Dawkins
1:59:59 The Figureheads of the Christian Revival
2:06:44 Important Things Ignored by the Media
2:11:24 Where to Find Alex

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