Aubrey Marcus
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I grew up an atheist.
Yeah.
Particularly because I went to the dungeons of the Inquisition.
I saw the horrors and the devices that still haunt me to this day.
You were touring in Europe.
I was touring in Italy.
In Italy.
And they had a museum.
And in the museum was a dungeon of the Inquisition.
I'm 15 years old.
Agnostic at 15.
My family was agnostic.
Didn't really have a belief either way, but...
And then I saw horrors beyond horrors.
Like 90% of the devices in there had something to do with genital torture.
Like one of the most horrifying things I've ever seen in my life.
And...
I saw that and I decided, well, that God that I don't believe in is certainly not real.
And there's still some people who believe in that God.
So my life mission and purpose is to be like Christopher Hitchens or, you know, Bertrand Russell and try to dismantle this piece by piece until, like they said about the temple, there are no two stones stacked on top of each other.