We are allowed to question people about their politics or e… - Derren Brown

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We are allowed to question people about their politics or ethics and expect them to defend their beliefs, or at least hold their own in any other important matter by recourse to evidence, yet somehow on the massive subject of God and how he might have us behave, all rational discussion must stop the moment we hear 'I believe'.

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Derren Victor Brown (born 27 February 1971) is a British illusionist, mentalist, painter, writer and sceptic.

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