Posted on 02/01/2015 11:57:34 AM PST by NetAddicted
If Stephen Fry met God, he'd have some pretty scathing things to say. In an interview on RTÉ One's faith-based series The Meaning of Life, set to air on TV on Sunday, host Gay Byrne posed a theoretical question to the 57-year-old British actor and comedian, who is a staunch atheist. "Suppose it's all true, and you walk up to the pearly gates, and are confronted by God," he asked, as seen in a YouTube video posted this week, which has been viewed more than 1.4 million times. "What will Stephen Fry say to him, her, or it?" "I think I'd say, 'Bone cancer in children?'" Fry replied. "'What's that about'? How dare you. How dare you create a world in 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." "And you think you're going to get in?" the host asked. "No," Fry said. "But I wouldn't want to. I wouldn't want to get in on his terms. They're wrong."
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Man chose sin in the garden and unleashed evil in the world. Apparently Mr Fry chooses sin also.
I was at a party in London with Stephen Fry, the man is a complete bore yet fancies himself a modern day Oscar Wilde.
Playing Oscar Wilde in a movie does not make one Oscar Wilde.
Celebs make stupid comments every day.
By this point it's almost part of their job description.
There will come a day when EVERY knee will bow, EVERY tongue will confess (admit) that Jesus Christ is Lord...
I guess I should have read a little further down in the comments before I posted...
8^)
Homosexuals hate the idea that there is a God for obvious reasons. However, this is simply foolish talk from an ignorant man. Jesus tells us that on the day He returns to judge the earth’s inhabitants, “every knee shall bow,” whether they want to or not.
He’s an entertainer, I don’t watch or listen to him for his personal opinion and couldn’t care less what it is.
I had never heard of him.
Does this Stephen Fry even know that Oscar Wilde was a baptized Catholic who received the Last Sacraments on his deathbed?
He might want to fancy himself George Bernard Shaw instead.
The little girl, who had just started to read her book, replied to the total stranger, "What would you want to talk about?"
"Oh, I don't know," said the atheist. "How about why there is no God, or no Heaven or Hell, or no life after death?" as he smiled smugly.
"Okay," she said. "Those could be interesting topics but let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff - grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?"
The atheist, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence, thinks about it and says, "Hmmm, I have no idea." To which the little girl replies, "Do you really feel qualified to discuss God, Heaven and Hell, or life after death, when you don't know shit?"
And then she went back to reading her book.
I found this quite funny, even as an agnostic.
“I think I’d say, ‘Bone cancer in children?’” Fry replied. “’What’s that about’? How dare you. How dare you create a world in 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?’”
How do we answer his question?
I have responses that address his premise, such as, “why do you think bone cancer in children, injustice and pain are wrong”?
He does not have a reason for objecting to any wrong or evil.
But how do we explain such things?
What if he's not the one in charge of where he will go, then?
Moron.
At least he’s starting that conversation. I had to go through the hate thing.
Just in case anybody is interested, NON-BELIEVERS will not get to SEE the pearly gates. Sorry ..!!!!
They will only get to see the WHITE THRONE JUDGEMENT .. whereby ALL WILL BE JUDGED.
Really? I thought he decided to embrace sexual abstinence to his dying day.
He was always a bit off. He left one show in the middle of a shoot and took off for the continent. "Wooster and Jeeves", maybe.
Actually, there will be “The Final Harvest” where many hundreds of thousands will take that one last chance and be able to enter into heaven.
“It’s GOD’s desire that NONE should perish.”
However, the CHOICE IS UP TO YOU.
Uh yeah, this guy is smarter than Moses, Jesus, Paul, Martin Luther, Pascal, Newton, etc.
On a scale of 0 to 10 he comes in at a minus 5, which is the full fledged DIM-BULB level.
Jesus wants us to pray for these people.
I feel like Jonah waiting for God to strike Ninivah.
God is “I Am” and there is no more to do except what he commands.
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