“God once had Bach and Michelangelo on his side, he had Mozart, and now who does he have? People with ginger whiskers and tinted spectacles who reduce the glories of theology to a kind of sharing.”

—  Stephen Fry

The Blasphemy Debate with Christopher Hitchens
On the Guardian website
2000s

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