The English can't even sort out their teeth.
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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He would say either “Oops” or “Goodbye.”
There’s a saying that Hell is a prison locked from the inside. I can see why.
And when Stephen Fry’s pilot light goes out for good on dear mother Earth, he will get his chance to stand before the Lord. You’ve chosen poorly, Mr. Fry. You’re toast. Enjoy a well earned eternal damnation.
If this guy saw God I would bet everything the meeting would not go down as he describes it.
I think he's saying that a loving God would not allow suffering to occur to innocents. (Usually the same crowd who think abortion is a woman's right to choose, but I digress.) Such shallow-thinking people believe "people are basically good." They have no perspective on the scriptural advice that sin, starting with the first humans and compounding year by year since then, has caused corruption in this world; and that living in a fallen world, "we all sin and fall short of the glory of God." They understand a computer virus corrupting their laptop's demand for mathematical numeric perfection, but not God's requirement to be "perfect, even as God is perfect."
A suffering child is a symptom of a world in sin, not a characteristic of God's ultimate desire for humankind. Christ came to teach us about the life eternal beyond this life of suffereing and death. He died like a man to redeem us from humanity's unavoidable sin.
For the unsaved, right now, this world is the closest thing to heaven they will ever know.
For the saved, right now, this world is the closest thing to hell they will ever know.
Hubris. I can only imagine one’s reaction meeting God face to face. I would think it to be a magnificent, humbling and scary proposition. To be given the opportunity to see your effect, good or bad, that you did in your life and on others.
Eggs Zactly ^5
One of my favorite Oscar Wilde quotes, and my first tagline ten years ago, is, "Sentimentality is loving people more than God would."
I think this is so ironic in relation to the "gay rights" debate, and especially in light of Oscar Wilde's own very public denouement and prison term for the "love that dare not speak its name."
Nothing to get too worked up over. I doubt if God will be cowed by the petty anger of a third-rate actor/comedian. If it comes to down a contest of wills between the Creator Of All Things and one who is nothing more than a legend in his own mind, I have a good idea which way that will go.
The English can't even sort out their teeth.
The comments here hardly further the notion as to the moral superiority of those with strong religious convictions. Better to judge the man by his actions towards others: He has apparently raised and donated large amounts of money to medical care in Uganda.
I do not agree with Fry in many areas but I respect his intellect, gifts and authenticity.
“When good Americans die, they go to Paris. When bad Americans die, they go to America.”
Exactly. And the Europhile hipsters in this country (the ones that mock ‘Murica) squeal in delight at even the most inane mutterings emanating from his upper semen receptacle...
After our "perfect world" was taken from "us"...
We live in a world where things are based on the laws of nature, i.e., physics. JUST the way Mr. Fry wanted it. After Adam /Eve, we now live in a world governed by rules and laws of gravity, thermodynamics, etc. No, outwardly visible "interference" or provable "meddling" from God anymore.
We are all subject to the same effect (pretty much) if we were to fall from a building, for example. Cells divide in a child in in the womb, and thanks to the laws of nature, defects just happen in the world governed by science. It's not fair, or right, or predictable in many cases. But it happens. If an inbred brother and sister have a kid, the kid will have issues. the kid didn't deserve this, but how would we explain it if two inbreds give birth to Tom Selleck or Kate Upton?
The world he complains about is the world HE wanted. the world that HIS KIND hasn't "saved" yet, because they are, after all, NOT God, but only human.
And God gave us Free Will instead of making us Mind-controlled robots.
And GOD would say, “Zot.”
Whoops. That's pretty important too, and just as big. (I wish I could edit posts sometimes...)
I USED to like Stephen Fry on BlackAdder.
Through one MAN’s transgression (Adam) sin entered into man, and through sin, death. Satan instigated the man and history is just an endless repetition of this same trap. Hence all death (diseases are just death in slow motion) is the result of Satan’s operation in man. No one is suggesting that children caused or deserved these diseases, but it is man’s failure nonetheless.
Sadly what many even believers fail to realize is that it is a mercy to live and to have the opportunity to receive the gospel. God is within His full right to simply discard fallen humanity. But instead He gives man a chance to bypass judgement simply by acknowledging that He has already paid the price.
Men are foolish in their judgement and trade a few years pleasure for hundreds of thousands of years of judgement. Likewise they make foolish accusstions against God for allowing a few years suffering to gain hundreds of thousands of years of joy.
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