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NeoGreen

(4,033 posts)
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 01:05 PM Nov 2017

Stephen Fry Annihilates God

This cannot be posted too many times:




http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/stephen-fry-blasphemy-god-ireland-confronted-by-met-a7722191.html
Asked what he would say if he was confronted by God at the pearly gates of heaven, Fry replied:

“I’d say, bone cancer in children? What’s that about?

How dare you? How dare you create a world to which there is such misery that is not our fault. It’s not right, it’s utterly, utterly evil.

Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid God who creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain. That’s what I would say. ”

Mr Byrne’s second question, “And you think you are going to get in, like that?”
only served to fuel his anger.

"But I wouldn't want to," Fry insisted. “I wouldn't want to get in on his terms. They are wrong.

Now, if I died and it was Pluto, Hades, and if it was the 12 Greek gods then I would have more truck with it, because the Greeks didn’t pretend to not be human in their appetites, in their capriciousness, and in their unreasonableness… they didn’t present themselves as being all-seeing, all-wise, all-kind, all-beneficent, because the god that created this universe, if it was created by god, is quite clearly a maniac… utter maniac, totally selfish.

We have to spend our life on our knees thanking him? What kind of god would do that?

So, atheism isn’t not just about not believing there’s a God, but on the assumption there is one, what kind of God is he?”
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Stephen Fry Annihilates God (Original Post) NeoGreen Nov 2017 OP
No fair. Only one of them is real. (n/t) Iggo Nov 2017 #1
Every year, a million babies die the day they're born More_Cowbell Nov 2017 #2
55 years ago (give or take), a colleague gave birth to her third child. SwissTony Nov 2017 #4
Fry annihilates God.. defacto7 Nov 2017 #3
I send this out to someone at least every Duppers Nov 2017 #5

More_Cowbell

(2,206 posts)
2. Every year, a million babies die the day they're born
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 01:21 PM
Nov 2017

I never had any faith that there was an all-powerful god watching out for us, but that really does it for me. I don't want to believe someone created this wasteful, ugly, tragic situation and is fine with watching it play out.

SwissTony

(2,560 posts)
4. 55 years ago (give or take), a colleague gave birth to her third child.
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 02:48 PM
Nov 2017

The child was stillborn.

She told me that was the day she became an atheist.

defacto7

(13,635 posts)
3. Fry annihilates God..
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 01:42 PM
Nov 2017

In about 2 minutes. Simple done. Suck on that you theists. Your God has been disproven! Or at least dethroned.

Duppers

(28,260 posts)
5. I send this out to someone at least every
Tue Nov 28, 2017, 05:19 PM
Nov 2017

3 months or so. Whenever I find someone wanting to argue the pt.


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