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Alex O'Connor speaks in proposition of the motion that This House believes that God is a delusion. Mr O'Connor is the host of the CosmicSkeptic podcast and YouTube channel and the author of a blog in the same name.

He asks why God would create species only for them to be made extinct and why a God would permit such cruelty and violence carried out in its name.

This is the fifth speech of eight.

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