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Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.51,0:00:05.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gay Byrne: Suppose what Oscar believed in
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.81,0:00:08.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as he died \Nin spite of your protestations.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.09,0:00:11.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Suppose it's all true, and you walk up to\Nthe Pearly Gates
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.63,0:00:14.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you are confronted by God.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.36,0:00:18.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What would Stephen Fry \Nsay to Him, Her, or It?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.49,0:00:21.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stephen Fry: I will basically \N- that is theodicee, I think -
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.93,0:00:24.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’d say; "Bone cancer in children?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.88,0:00:27.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's that about? How dare you?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.16,0:00:30.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How dare you create a world \Nin which there is such misery
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.49,0:00:34.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is not our fault? \NIt’s not right, it’s utterly, utterly evil.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.74,0:00:39.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why should I respect a capricious,\Nmean-minded, stupid god
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.27,0:00:44.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who creates a world\Nwhich is so full of injustice and pain?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.70,0:00:45.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what I'd say.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.94,0:00:48.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,GB: And you think you're going to get in?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.29,0:00:50.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SF: No, but I wouldn't want to.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.10,0:00:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wouldn't want to get in on his terms.\NThey're wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.00,0:00:56.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now if I died and it was was Pluto, Hades
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.59,0:01:00.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was the 12 Greek gods, \Nthen I would have more
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.12,0:01:04.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,truck because the Greeks were..., \Nthey didn’t pretend not to be human
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.57,0:01:07.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in their appetites, \Nin their capriciousness
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.26,0:01:10.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in their unreasonableness. \NThey didn't present themselves
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.36,0:01:14.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as being all seeing, all wise, \Nall kind, all beneficent.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.76,0:01:18.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the god who created this universe -\Nif it was created by a god -
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.26,0:01:21.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is quite clearly a maniac,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.75,0:01:25.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,utter maniac, totally selfish, total.\NWe have to spend our live
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.55,0:01:29.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on our knees thanking him?\NWhat kind of god would do that?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.54,0:01:33.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, the world is very splendid, \Nbut it also has in it insects
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.36,0:01:36.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose whole life cycle is to burrow \Ninto the eyes of children
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.54,0:01:37.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make them blind.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.83,0:01:41.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They eat outwards from the eyes. \NWhy?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.85,0:01:45.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why did you do that to us? \NYou could easily have made
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.28,0:01:49.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a creation in which that didn't exist.\NIt is simply not acceptable.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.92,0:01:51.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you know, atheism is
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.92,0:01:55.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just about not believing \Nthere isn't...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.08,0:01:58.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not believing there is a god. \NBut on the assumption there is one,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.66,0:02:01.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what kind of god is he? \NIt's perfectly apparent.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.76,0:02:05.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is monstrous, utterly monstrous, \Ndeserves no respect whatsoever.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.60,0:02:10.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The moment you banish him, \Nlife becomes simpler, purer, cleaner,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.24,0:02:12.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more worth living in my opinion.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.58,0:02:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,GB: That sure is the longer answer \Nto that question
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.48,0:02:18.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got in this entire series.