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Jim Carroll	BS: Stephen Fry Blasphemy (552* d)	RE: BS: Stephen Fry Blasphemy	10 May 17
Nice letter in the Irish Times this morning Blasphemy and the law Sir, - As a gesture of solidarity with Stephen Fry, I quote a sentence from my book, The God Delusion: "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." Every one of these adjectives is amply documented, with full biblical citations, in Dan Bark¬er's book, God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction. I shall be giving a public lecture in the National Concert Hall, Dublin, on June 12th, and I shall therefore be available for arrest on a charge of blasphemy.-Yours, etc, Richard Dawkins, New College, Oxford. Jim Carroll

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