He's been on Bill Maher several times (Bill Maher is an atheist), and they've discussed that. The Jesus of Matthew five through eight is one of the most profound people ever created, and if you look carefully at the "Sermon on the Mount," you'll find it's simply brilliant. Even Bill Maher likes this Jesus. I do too. And this is the Jesus that Dr. Cornel espouses. I've spent most of my life trying to live "up" to the ideology of this Jesus.

But there's a huge difference between Jesus, and Christ. Most Christians follow Christ, the antithesis of Jesus.

There are Christians (and others) whose faith is in the principles; not in a literal interpretation of the mythology. Do you know anything about the specifics of Dr. West’s faith? I don’t know specifically, but my guess is he doesn’t believe in the god of the literalist.

It's simple, really. He's nowhere near brilliant nor an ethical humanist. He's a batshit crazy fucker. There aren't many believers in the fields of cosmology or physics.

I think, no matter how cleaver some people are they have been so conditioned by their upbringing that they cannot get away from it + some people just have a need to believe that there must be something like a God or would we be here. Unfortunately it is so.