Derren Brown Interview (6/6) - Richard Dawkins
This is the full uncut interview filmed for the Channel 4 TV program "The Enemies of Reason." This video is provided free online by http://RichardDawkins.net . If you enjoy the video and...
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Dawkins: Where does your skepticism come from? Brown: Well in terms of sort of my history I used to be a very devout Christian when I was younger but didn't have a Christian family and didn't have Christian friends. I had one good Christian friend. But it came from a bible reading class when I was young. It was an unpleasant childhood indoctrination. Because I grew up without a Christian peer group, when I got to university it was relatively easy for me to kind of, sort of think my way out of it. Sort of challenge it and not feel too much guilt. And I'd started to learn hypnosis at the time. That was the first stepping stone to what I'm doing now. I had all these Christians terribly upset and offended that I was doing it because it sort ...
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Dawkins: Where does your skepticism come from? Brown: Well in terms of sort of my history I used to be a very devout Christian when I was younger but didn't have a Christian family and didn't have Christian friends. I had one good Christian friend. But it came from a bible reading class when I was young. It was an unpleasant childhood indoctrination. Because I grew up without a Christian peer group, when I got to university it was relatively easy for me to kind of, sort of think my way out of it. Sort of challenge it and not feel too much guilt. And I'd started to learn hypnosis at the time. That was the first stepping stone to what I'm doing now. I had all these Christians terribly upset and offended that I was doing it because it sort ...
