Stephen Fry on 'respecting' religious beliefs

From the blasphemy debate at Hay Festival 2005 where Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens discuss incitement to religious hatred.

The whole thing can be listened to here: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/culturevu...

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[jd236236]

Just a quick correction "Atheism is the disbelief or LACK of belief in the existence of God or gods" (oxford english dictionary).

Also from what i can see, Dr. Charles Stanley doesn't take part in debates he only does preaching.

Its very easy to argue a point when everyone in the room already agrees with everything your going to say

[jaryd12345]

It's interesting that your names is Lobato, almost like it could of been contracted through time from the word "lobotomy"

[tomyrosicky]

Gervais would eat him in a sandwich.

[EugeneMcOck]

i watch it quite regularly yes. fry is not even the cleverest man on the show, let a lone a genius.

[Woltato]

Have you never seen QI? All that stuff he knows off the top of his head. The man's a genius.

[EugeneMcOck]

to be fair Stephen Fry really isn't as clever as people think he is.

[Joey Reeves]

He might well be but Stephen Fry isn't.

[tysonfor1]

Richard Dawkins would take him to pieces. He would then loose his faith. True story.

[EugeneMcOck]

stephen frei is fucking stupid

[Hannible100]

Stephen Fry is a big fairy faggot!

[lexo30]

'He cannot be inactive in their life because they do not believe in him, so how can he be inactive.' You might want to read that sentence back to yourself. What you're arguing is that not believing in something is the same as believing in something, because the fact that there is a word for that thing implies that it exists. I don't believe in ghosts, but the word 'ghost' does not imply that ghosts must exist. I can use the phrase 'Intelligent Baptist', but it doesn't mean that there are any.

[antichris78]

Being 'offended' doesn't make you right, or the other person wrong.