Stephen fry is one my favorite comedians along with Hugh Laurie, George Carlin and Russel Peters (!xobile
). Here’s a segment from BBC’s Intelligence squared debate where he pairs up with Christopher Hitchens and decimates the Catholic church and its age old beliefs and the horrific crimes it has committed against humanity and still is doing so. (Okay just to clarify, I have nothing against people who follow Christianity; but the crimes committed by the Church is a fact which the Pope himself has acknowledged. )
Its a 5 part series and you should be able to see the remaining parts (in the right column or the main player itself) soon after completing each part.
I like Fry’s killer logical argument totally destroying the Archbishop’s and Ann’s hopeless and feeble attempts to defend the church.
Well, the opposition had no chance of winning this one in a debate where you score a point by consistently presenting facts to support your statements rather than appealing to emotions. And Hitchens and Fry had it easy since the number of facts against the Catholic Church being a force of good easily outnumbered the number of facts in favour it.
Stephen Fry had some of the killer lines. Especially the “…But you don’t mention that I gift my dad a present on his birthday”. or “The only people obsessed about food are the anorexic or the morbidly obese. That’s the catholic church in a nutshell my friends.”