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Related: About this forumStephen 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:
Id say, bone cancer in children? Whats that about?
How dare you? How dare you create a world to which there is such misery that is not our fault. Its not right, its 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. Thats what I would say.
Mr Byrnes 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 didnt pretend to not be human in their appetites, in their capriciousness, and in their unreasonableness they didnt 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 isnt not just about not believing theres 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
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Iggo
(48,463 posts)1. No fair. Only one of them is real. (n/t)
More_Cowbell
(2,206 posts)2. Every year, a million babies die the day they're born
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.
The child was stillborn.
She told me that was the day she became an atheist.
defacto7
(13,635 posts)3. Fry annihilates God..
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
3 months or so. Whenever I find someone wanting to argue the pt.