You have to love the very idea of Stephen Fry: a comedian, actor, AND public intellectual. Can you imagine ANY American celebrity who could publicly debate religion in a serious forum and also do a sketch like this?
Well, anyway, here’s one of those annoying YouTube things where someone took an audio clip and set it to some random visuals, but it’s worth listening to. In it, Fry counters the argument from his debate opponent that secularism deprives the world of beauty, poetry, and imagination. It’s kind of long, but thoughtful and well-said:
