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Stephen Fry: 'God is evil, mean-minded and stupid'
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Broadcaster and atheist Stephen Fry has been filmed launching into an impassioned tirade about the existence of God.
The QI presenter calls the Christian deity "evil", "monstrous" and "stupid" in a clip from an Irish TV show set to be aired this weekend.
Host Gay Byrne asks the 57-year-old, who is well known for his atheism, what he would do after his death if he arrived at the "pearly gates" to find that God really does exist.
Fry responds: "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.
"Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world which is so full of injustice and pain?"
Asked if he thinks he'll get in to heaven, he replies: "No, but I wouldn't want to," before saying he prefers the religion of the ancient Greeks whose gods were more modest about the capabilities.
Faced by an interviewer who is visibly taken aback, he adds: "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?
"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."
After Fry concludes that the Christian god is "monstrous and deserves no respect", his interviewer says: "That sure is the longest answer to that question that I ever got in this entire series."
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/celebritynews/stephen-fry-god-is-evil-meanminded-and-stupid-10013120.html
It looks as though Stephen Fry has angered some of the more religious people.
He does however have a valid point, why should human beings be grateful to a God that created a worm which burrows out of children eyes.
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Why does Fry think that he would have the opportunity to say his piece ?
He doesn't. It was a hypothetical question!
He was asked in 'The Meaning of Life' show in Ireland. I would suppose it features both religious and non-religious view points.
as an atheist he doesn`t does he, he was just answering a question.
His answer to the hypothetical question was illogical.
how exactly was it illogical?
if the answer was illogical the man who asked it of a known atheist is off the scale of logic.
not really. a god that creates pain and misery, seemingly without reason would be a sadistic prick...
So how should he have answered that question in your view?
Best answer yet and I'm a theist
Just as well God doesn't exist then.
And yet a theist believes that at least one deity exists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theism
Unless you specifically meant the Christian god.
Gotta hate random chance.
All in one and nothing like.
I believe in free will and a transcendent god (like Christians and others). I believe a certain way of separatist egotistical thought or vanity creates the world as we think we know it.
It'd be a weird God that created evil and sin, pain and suffering, and then sent Jesus to sort it out.
Much like religion itself.
Taylor Swift
Back of the queue please......I cracked that funny a few posts earlier. :cool:
Err...you weren't invited.
Good choice!