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…
– 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