Russell Brand

It's already bookmarked.

This has been there for like weeks.

Forget the former things.

Do not dwell on the past.

See, I'm doing a new thing.

Now it springs up.

Do not perceive it.

I'm making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

But,

I think, really, as I was looking through it, I was thinking, isn't this as early in Isaiah, isn't it?

It's about Isaiah 10.

Where is that?

We've all been there.

And, yeah, well, I suppose...

Look, I am questioning my own integrity in selling a book.

And then my point when I picked up the Bible just then was to bring us to 2 Corinthians.

But while we're looking for that, I will make the point that if something is sort of innocuous as looking for a page in the Bible or looking for a quote in a book to decouple it from ideology and theology, you know, have you ever looked for a quote in a book and not been able to instantly and urgently find it if it wasn't something you were preparing or really even thinking about that day?

If that is looked at so nefariously, it makes you wonder how many other relatively innocent things might be being deliberately reframed as negative for some other purpose.

Because surely there is an appetite to condemn, an appetite to condemn.

As one of my teachers, the writer of this book, actually, Jamie Winship, who you should definitely have on your show.