"Their disdain for ancient sacred writings is akin to the haughty disdain Europeans had for the aboriginal wisdom of the lands they conquered"

I don't agree with this at all. Fry, like most of us in Europe and the US were raised as christians and our ancestors lived in countries that have been christian for well over a millennia and our cultures are infused with it to a very deep and profound level.

Fry's questioning of the philosophy of christian thought on god is fully justified and he has as much right as anyone to articulate how he feels, especially if some asks him; he is as much a part of our culture as the bishops that offer their views on Sunday morning current affairs talk shows, whether we approve of him or not. We all have a right to question.

Using the oppression of native peoples as an analogue to the comments made by a TV celebrity betrays a misunderstanding of not only the context and content of Fry's comments, but much more besides.