O'n y rhywun sydd ei gallu ei beideblwyr. Be moneystear wrthau eto hollys oillullau, fynDAYS o follion o Ysgわaniaeth Fern weak, neu communi am fel ac yASSym fill mae'n earb yn rhywb yn sydd yno ac Hymniberghwyillau ryg Ham response Hel Conservforiaid dwi jos eich darwseth i trab periodion ond sodiumnaiedd iawn yn lecheill, mae'r Cabinet yn rhoi cystraen y Cymlw gl testae a lawerai bethau ei fehraethu ar eraillbod imunnościgaredd o falsed aroth arth Lumud measurement randomt. Mae'r tect from the Apologium. Mae'r tect from the Catholic Church said Newman. Mae'r tect from the sun and moon to drop from heaven for the earth to fail and for all the many millions on it to die in extremist agony than that one soul. I will not say it will be lost but should commit one venial sin. Should tell one willful untruth or should seal one farthing without excuse. You'll have to say it's beautifully phrased, ladies and gentlemen. But to me, here's my proposition. What we have here and picked from no mean source is a distillation of precisely what is twisted and immoral in the faith mentality. It's essential for Nazism, it's consideration of the human being as raw material and its fantasy of purity. Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well. I'll repeat that. Created sick and then ordered to be well. And over us to supervise this is installed a celestial dictatorship, a kind of divine North Korea. LAUGHTER Greedy, exigent. Exigent, I would say, more than exigent, greedy for uncritical praise from Dorntel Dusk and swift to punish the original sins with which it so tenderly gifted us in the very first place. However, let no one say there's no cure. Salvation is offered. Redemption indeed is promised at the low price of the surrender of your critical faculties. LAUGHTER Religion, it might be said, must be said, or would have to admit, makes extraordinary claims, but though I would maintain that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, rather daringly provides not even ordinary evidence for its extraordinary supernatural claims. Therefore, we might begin by asking, I'm asking my opponent, as well as you, when you consider your voting. Is it good for the world to appeal to our credulity and not to our skepticism? Is it good for the world to worship a deity that takes sides in wars and human affairs? To appeal to our fear and to our guilt is it good for the world? To our terror, our terror of death is it good to appeal? To preach guilt and shame about the sexual act and the sexual relationship is this good for the world and asking yourself the while, are these really religious responsibilities, as I maintain now? To terrify children with the image of hell and eternal punishment, not just of themselves, but of their parents and those they love, perhaps worst of all, to consider women in inferior creation is that good for the world? And can you name me a religion that has not done that? To insist that we are created and not evolved in the face of all the evidence, to say that certain books of legend and myth man-made and primitive are revealed, not man-made code. Religion forces nice people to do unkind things and also makes intelligent people say, stupid things. How did a small baby, for the first time, is it your first reaction to think, beautiful, almost perfect? Now, please hand me the sharp stone for its genitalia that I may do the work of the Lord. No. It is as the great physicist, Stephen Weinberg has very aptly put it, in the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you'll need religion. Now, I've got now one minute and 57 seconds to say why I think this is very self-evident in our material world. Let me ask Tony again, because he's here. And because the place where he is seeking peace is the birthplace of monotheism. So you might think it was unusually filled with refellgence and love and peace. Everyone in the civilized world has roughly agreed, including the majority of Arabs and Jews and the international community, that there should be an offer room for two states for two peoples in the same land. I think we have a rough agreement on that. Why can't we get it? The UN can't get it. The US can't get it. The quartet can't get it. The PLO can't get it. The Israeli parliament can't get it. Why can't they get it? Because the parties of God have a veto on it and everybody knows that this is true. Because of the divine promises made about this territory, there will never be peace. There will never be compromised. There will instead be misery, shame and tyranny. And people will kill each other's children for ancient books and caves and relics. And who is going to say that this is good for the world? And that's just the article, the example, in years to hand. Have you looked lately at the possibility that we used to discuss as children in fear? What will happen when messianic fanatics get hold of an apocalyptic weapon? Well, we're about to find that out. As we watched the Islamic Republic of Iran and its party of God allies make a dress or a hustle for precisely this. Have you looked lately at the revival of Zarrism in Putin's Russia, where the black cowl, the black coated leadership of Russian Orthodoxy is draped over an increasingly xenophobic, tyrannical, expansionist, and aggressive regime? Have you looked lately at the teaching in Africa and the consequences of it of a church that says, AIDS may be wicked, but not as wicked as condoms? That's exactly no seconds left, ladies and gentlemen. I've done my best. Believe me, I have more. Thank you.