God Must Exist Because Nature Is So Gosh Darn Wonderful

[beam me up scottie]

22. It is. He totally nailed it. I loved the exasperated reaction from the interviewer.

Here's the gist of it for those who can't watch videos but it's missing Stephen's crisp British accent and the cutting tone of his righteous indignation:

Stephen Fry brands God 'utterly utterly evil'

The newly married broadcaster was asked what he would do if he found himself at the “pearly gates” after his death.

"I'll say: bone cancer in children, what's that about?” he said.

"How dare you. How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that's not our fault? It’s not right. It's utterly, utterly evil.

"Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid God who creates a world which is so full of injustice and pain?"

Fry was being interviewed for an Irish television show called The Meaning of Life when he launched into an impassioned tirade about God’s existence.

Asked if he thought he would get to heaven, he replied: "No, but I wouldn't want to. I wouldn’t want to get in on his terms. They’re wrong.

He added: "The God who created this universe, if he created this universe, is quite clearly a maniac, an utter maniac, totally selfish.

"We have to spend our lives on our knees thanking him. What kind of God would do that?

"Yes, the world is very splendid, but it also has in it insects whose whole life cycle is to burrow into the eyes of children and make them blind. Why? Why did you do that to us? It is simply not acceptable.

“Atheism is not just about not believing there's a god. On the assumption there is one, what kind of God is he? It’s perfectly apparent that was monstrous, utterly monstrous, and deserves no respect.”

He added: "The moment you banish him, your life becomes simpler, purer cleaner, more worth living in my opinion."

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Gay Byrne, the interviewer, slightly taken aback by Fry's strongly worded response, said it was the longest answer he’d got to that question.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/11381589/Watch-Stephen-Fry-brands-God-utterly-utterly-evil.html