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Gay Byrne: Suppose what Oscar believed in

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as he died [br]in spite of your protestations.

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Suppose it's all true, and you walk up to[br]the Pearly Gates

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and you are confronted by God.

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What would Stephen Fry [br]say to Him, Her, or It?

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Stephen Fry: I will basically [br]- that is theodicee, I think -

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I’d say; "Bone cancer in children?

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What's that about? How dare you?

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How dare you create a world [br]in which there is such misery

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that is not our fault? [br]It’s not right, it’s utterly, utterly evil.

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Why should I respect a capricious,[br]mean-minded, stupid god

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who creates a world[br]which is so full of injustice and pain?

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That's what I'd say.

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GB: And you think you're going to get in?

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SF: No, but I wouldn't want to.

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I wouldn't want to get in on his terms.[br]They're wrong.

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Now if I died and it was was Pluto, Hades

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and it was the 12 Greek gods, [br]then I would have more

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truck because the Greeks were..., [br]they didn’t pretend not to be human

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in their appetites, [br]in their capriciousness

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and in their unreasonableness. [br]They didn't present themselves

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as being all seeing, all wise, [br]all kind, all beneficent.

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Because the god who created this universe -[br]if it was created by a god -

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is quite clearly a maniac,

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utter maniac, totally selfish, total.[br]We have to spend our live

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on our knees thanking him?[br]What kind of god would do that?

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Yes, the world is very splendid, [br]but it also has in it insects

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whose whole life cycle is to burrow [br]into the eyes of children

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and make them blind.

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They eat outwards from the eyes. [br]Why?

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Why did you do that to us? [br]You could easily have made

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a creation in which that didn't exist.[br]It is simply not acceptable.

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So, you know, atheism is

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not just about not believing [br]there isn't...

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not believing there is a god. [br]But on the assumption there is one,

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what kind of god is he? [br]It's perfectly apparent.

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He is monstrous, utterly monstrous, [br]deserves no respect whatsoever.

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The moment you banish him, [br]life becomes simpler, purer, cleaner,

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more worth living in my opinion.

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GB: That sure is the longer answer [br]to that question

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I got in this entire series.