Alex O'Connor

It's so important what the claim is that's being made by particular religious traditions.

For example, for many Christians...

If it turns out that the resurrection of Jesus is not a literal event that happened in history, but instead some kind of later mythologizing, the religion falls apart.

It grounds itself on a very specific historical claim.

It can't just be, oh, I'm a bit annoyed that my pastor told me that this really happened, but I guess this is fine.

It would be like, this is completely upended everything that I believe about the universe.

That's one of the reasons why when you ask what historical event would I see, the key moment in the world's most popular religion

seems to be quite an important one to me.

Suppose you went and found out that Jesus didn't rise from the dead or you found out that Muhammad was a false prophet.

What are you going to do?

Come back to London and go, right, hear ye, hear ye.

I've got to tell you guys something.

I'd rather not know because I'd be terrified to let people know what I'd seen.

Basically, it's really funny because I talk about religion all the time, and particularly Christianity.

People say things like, hey man, you should talk about Hinduism.

And I'm like, okay, I get why you're saying that.

That's fair.

I'd love to, but it's not quite as simple as that.

Even when it comes to like, people say, well, you should, you should have, you should have a Hindu on your show to talk to them.

And I'm like, even that is tricky because firstly, I prepare as hard as I can for every guest that comes on my show.