Irish TV presenter Gay Byrne asked Fry what he would say when he reached the "pearly gates" and was confronted by God - a question he regularly asks his interviewees.
"I'll say: bone cancer in children, what's that about? How dare you how dare you create a world where there is such misery that's not our fault? It's utterly, utterly evil," he passionately replied.
"Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world which is so full of injustice and pain?"
When asked if he thinks he'll get into heaven, the 57-year-old said: "No, but I wouldn't want to."
He later tells the shocked host that God is an "utter maniac" and "totally selfish".
"The god who created this universe, if he created this universe, is quite clearly a maniac, an utter maniac, totally selfish.
"We have to spend our lives on our knees thanking him. What kind of god would do that?
He added: "Yes the world is very splendid, but it also has in it insects whose whole life cycle is to burrow into the eyes of children and make them blind. That eat outwards from the eyes
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"Why? Why did you do that to us?
"Atheism is not just about not believing there's a god. On the assumption there is one, what kind of God is he?" he asks.
Fry finally rounds up his tirade by saying that the Christian god is "utterly monstrous and deserves no respect".
"The moment you banish him, your life becomes simpler, purer cleaner, more worth living in my opinion."
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