Richard Dawkins' book The God Delusion provided a helpful structure for the lack of belief that the speaker had already moved toward.

“in fact that the Richard Dawkins book The The God Delusion came out around the time that I had sort of mentally made that step but didn't quite maybe have the sort of proper language for it so that was if that was a helpful book actually”

Alex O'Connor argues that believing we can be certain about the creator's will regarding human and political affairs is a dangerous idea.

“That we can have certainty about the will of the creator of the universe and that it's engaged in the peculiarities of human affairs and human political affairs.”

Religious attendance can be motivated by the impulse for community rather than strict belief in dogma.

“I think that part of the religious impulse is about community yeah and one thing I find hysterically funny is that all of these people who are fiercely against anything that strikes them as tribal or organized go to a lot of these weird human potential movement meetings and say what we really need t”