Chesterton was a competent writer of detective fiction, as a philosopher and theologian he was a competent writer of detective fiction.

David Starkey is the BBC's go to rent a fuckwit. A colonialist, xenophobic old fart, a relic of "the good ole days" who spouts racist bigotry and calls it plain speaking legitimized and justified by Historistic precedent, cares nothing for tact or truth and is a holdover from Victorian British values, the male equivalent of a pearl clutching old "Memsaab" who locks her doors at night for fear of the "Natives" coming in and violating his innate Englishness.

And: The quote should be corrected to read:
“When men ... believe in God, . . . . they then become capable of DOING anything.”
― G.K. Chesterton

Chesterton: a believer that could not comprehend non-belief. Therefore the idiotic statement.

And then more imbeciles use his words as if they had foundation in reality. They are as empty as all religious thinking.

So what's he saying? That we should believe in God (whether we really do or not) out of fear that if we don't we will believe in anything? Sounds like a pretense faith born out of a paranoid fear of chaos.

Besides the people he talks about still BELIEVE. They have just moved the object of their veneration to something else outside of the standard objects of belief. They are still religious/superstitious. They are simply entrapped in a different superstitious cage. They just worship and subject themselves to different nonstandard "god".

Actually, once you free yourself from the god-belief trap, the opposite occurs. You become more skeptical, not more susceptible.

I was taken aback by Sam Harris' response to Jordan Peterson's statement that socialism in Russia was based on an atheism that was genocidal in its very essence. Harris replied that everything about the structure of socialism was religious from the dogma, the state Inquisition, the treatment of 'heretics' and who knows what else. If true, religious belief of a kind carried on under socialism. Douglas Murray has just released a new book called The Madness Of Crowds that claims our modern ideological groups are also religious in the same way. Starkey's take on cult following, cultural guilt etc. gave me pause for thought in the context of new religion. I had to laugh when he called Greta Thunberg the new Joan of Arc but who knows? Maybe he's on to something.

Wrong. As a believing Christian I used to believe in everything. Today that is not so. I have to have evidence for what I believe.

We reject the idea of gods because lack of evidence for them gives us no reason to think they exist, and critical thinking shows fatal problems with most descriptions of gods.

This doesn't mean we believe everything. Many things fail one or both of the requirement of evidence, or critical analysis.

Chesterton was flat-out wrong.

As to most of the rest being said in the video... Yeesh.

Chesterton is full of shit, we chose not to believe because we believe in science and evidence.