"a feeble and anaemic nonsense"

From http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2005/05/hitchens_and_fr.html ...

Stephen Fry: "We are captains of our soul and masters of our destiny, and we contain any divine fire that there is, divine fire that is fine and great. I mean it's perfectly obvious that, if there were ever a God, he has lost all possible taste. You've only got to look... Forget the aggression and the unpleasantness of the radical right or the Islamic hordes to the East. The sheer lack of intelligence and insight, and ability to express themselves and to enthuse others, of the priesthood and the clerisy here, in this country, and indeed in Europe... God once had Bach and Michaelangelo on his side, he had Mozart. And now who does he have? People with ginger whiskers and tinted spectacles who reduce the glories of theology to a kind of sharing. You know... that's what religion has become, a feeble and anaemic nonsense. Because we understood that the fire was within us, it was not in some idol on an altar, whether it was a gold cross or whether it was a Buddha or anything else. That we have it. The fault is in our stars but also the glory is in us ([correcting himself] not in our stars). The glory, anything... We take credit for what is great about man and we take blame for what is dreadful about man. We neither grovel nor apologize at the feet of a god, nor are so infantile as to project the idea that we once had a father as human beings and we therefore should have a divine one too. We have to grow up - which is partly what Christopher was saying."