Stephen Fry and God'

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Stephen Fry explains what he would say if he was 'confronted by God'

The athiest’s answer left The Meaning of Life presenter Gay Byrne stunned

Staunch atheist Stephen Fry left a television host stunned when he explained what he would say if he was “confronted by God”.
The actor and author, who recently married his partner Elliot Spencer, made a series impassioned comments during an interview with Gay Byrne for RTÉ One’s The Meaning of Life.
The weekly show features discussions about the purpose of life, religion, and what happens after death. A clip released ahead of Sunday's screening saw Fry discussing his views on God from his perspective as an atheist.
“Suppose it’s all true, and you walk up to the pearly gates, and are confronted by God,” asked Bryne. “What will Stephen Fry say to him, her, or it?”
The 57-year-old 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. ”
Byrne’s second question, “And you think you are going to get in, like that?” only served to fuel his fervour.
"But I wouldn't want to," Fry insisted. “I wouldn't want to get in on his terms. They are wrong.

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"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?”
Visibly staggered by Fry’s answer, Byrne said: “That sure is the longest answer to that question I ever got in this entire series.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/p...as-confronted-by-god-10015360.html?icn=puff-2

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Once you have a concept of god in your minds eye you can be assured that you have lost the plot. Be it all loving, benevolent god or god of indifference to child suffering. The atheist non-god is no less real than the fundamentalist so-called real god. One still has to conceive something to reject it.

Every aspect of god is conceived and manufactured by the mind.

All organisms are subject to the onslaught of pathogens and disease. The body is subject to imbalance and imbalance creates opportunities for disease and abnormal cell growth.

It would have made more sense to me if he just ignored the question because he dragged it back into a childish rant. If god made us and loves us why did hurt little Johnny, blah, blah, blah. What do people expect of life? To live inside some kind of Disney production. Life is meat and gristle and certain death. Be it still born, when one is still a child or as a centenarian. It can end in screaming agony or quietly in ones sleep. Who or what is to blame? It's a process, no more.

All we can do is bring science to bear in the hope of a cure so that one can still die but in old age, or produce a painless, comfortable death. Stephen Fry's argument would have disappointed me if it had come from one of my grandchildren, let alone a worldly, well educated adult.