Check out my post on opencuture.com featuring Stephen Fry.
Here’s the longer video referred to there, where comedian Fry (who apparently knows something about philosophy) casts himself as a bit of a new atheist, sort of a more gentle George Carlin:
Watch on BigThink.com. (That site doesn’t seem to let me embed videos in posts.)
‘You cannot for one second I think, abbragate the responsibility of believing that this is it because if you think you’re going to have an eternity in which you can talk to Mozart and Chopin and Schopenhauer on a cloud and learn stuff and you know really get to grips with knowledge and understanding and so you won’t bother now.’
Firstly I doubt Schopenhauer would be in heaven and secondly if he was in heaven he’d bitch about it anyway.