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Mr Dawkins, Mr Deity and Evil…

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Between work and the weather it’s been hard to find a spare minute to post this past week, but I did manage to listen to Richard Dawkins’ intriguing lecture on the Strangeness of Science on CBC’s Ideas. I haven’t read Dawkin’s The God Delusion, yet,  but it’s definitely on the list.  Now that you are thinking about the Supreme Being, have a gander at Mr. Deity’s hilarious and clever take on the problem of God and evil:

Mr. Deity Episode 1: Mr. Deity and the Evil - proobu

From the looks of it, Mr.Deity, deserves to become an ongoing series, though so far there are just four episodes on YouTube. Between The Daily Show’s "This Week" in God and our collective memory of  Dana Carve’s Church Lady, I don’t know  if the world of Godless Secular Humanist comedy can find room for Mr. Deity’s cosmic humour. But it should.