Apparently Derren Brown has more in common with Jillette Penn and James Randi than most of us realize.. This article courtesy of the UK's Times Online..
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He also used his growing powers to get back at charismatic cults. “Through learning suggestion, magic and charlatanism, I realised how the New Age thing works,” he says. “I began to challenge my Christian belief. I grew out of it. It was only in 2001 that I told someone I didn’t believe in God any more.” In his television special The Messiah, this convert to atheism visited authority figures in various belief systems: UFO experts, a spirit medium, a New Age group and evangelical Christianity. “The challenge was to see if, by using tricks, I could convince them I had special powers. I ‘mind-scanned’ a UFO believer and convinced a medium I could tell what she was drawing in another room. They all bought it rather easily, though the evangelist pastor, to his credit, wanted to see more..
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1 comment:
Lol, he seemed to become an atheist not due to arguments, but due to his impetuousness, based on what he said:
"Then, when I was 29, someone asked me if I believed in God and I said no, and I realised that I didn't any more." (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/3638015/Oh-yes-Im-hugely-nerdy....html).
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