Russell Brand’s ‘How To Be A Christian’ - most eye opening quote

As Russell indulges in verbal diarrhoea here the full quotes for your pleasure.

I thought I could use God’s power to get me grubbies on the derma-pleasures and skin-fiddles, the tutty-boobs and sweet-nooks.’

‘Even a principle like mutual Consent is secondary to our shared submission to God’s will.’

‘The collapse of semantic distinction becomes common at reason’s edge, the liminal preternatural twilight that one encounters when touching the hem of His garment.’

‘Not till I was cracked and smacked then uncracked and unsmacked and therapised and had been through Sartre and sutras and Nietzsche and sex creatures, until I’d turned my childhood shame into adult fame, only when I saw the false idols of sex and fame like two serpents, like two coiled helices, turn with Murdoch's venom and in foul and Faustian disgrace: "Oh, so you want to be famous, do you? And have lots of sex? How about being portrayed as THE MOST FAMOUS RAPIST IN THE WORLD? Ah Ha ha ha ha HA ha.'

‘An organised, demonic intelligence is in control of the world.’

‘Consider that within you… there is a portion of the divine, shooting, roaming, spreading, and searching, and the function of the world is to entice, enchant, wrap, and shellac it, a new and choking womb. Enclosed in self. Trapped on an inward ricochet of solipsistic inner circuitry, caroming endlessly in here with constant wants and fears.’

‘All my life I’ve been trying to make matter divine, to make it luminous with the numinous, but matter ain’t like that.’

‘Amdist the infinite which is where even competing and elsewise opposed epistemologies places us, even universal laws are a little more than local customs.’

https://www.chortle.co.uk/features/2026/05/29/60701/the_wit_and_wisdom_of_russell_brand

It's like a coked up BFG

His schtick turned from potentially funny to vile the moment it transpired that he was an abuser and was using the schtick to hide in plain sight

he wasn't even hiding

Voted for the attempted assonance of Nietzsche and sex creatures.

What a tool.

the recent Behind The Bastards on him made a good point - he's spent his whole career latching on to different groups of people until they inevitably sour on him after a year or two, then immediately moving on to the next one. Right now he's been quietly dropped by the evangelicals and is on a new round of just relying on the youtube algorithm to show him where to go, most of his videos don't get more than 50k views but when one blows up he'll just start repeating that one, diminishing returns set in, and the whole cycle starts again. This is how he got started with the anti-vax stuff, it was just getting him more views.

Can't wait for his prison diaries

Voted for launching him into the sun

and swee

it’s god’s will that he rapes:

voted ‘ Even a principle like mutual Consent is secondary to our shared submission to God’s will.’

Big of him to throw over a principle so important to him.

I loathed this guy when he was still/initially universally popular, and I always felt like I was going mad because I could not understand what anyone saw in him.

This all just reads like the vilest "plz redeem me" male abuser bollocks I've ever read. And why does he write like some bad parody of a clockwork orange droog?

These quotes represent a massive hate crime against the English language.

relevant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwWUb5hyFmQ

also makes me think of Alan Partridge saying “I am SUCH a Christian” to an interviewer

I loathed this guy when he was still/initially universally popular, and I always felt like I was going mad because I could not understand what anyone saw in him.

Same here.