“Because the god who created this universe, if it was created by a god, is quite clearly a maniac, an utter maniac, totally selfish. We have to spend our life on our knees thanking him? What kind of god would do that?”

— Stephen Fry

2010s, On what he would say to God were he to meet him, February 2015

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English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist 1957

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