{"id":19524,"date":"2015-02-01T03:05:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T11:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19524"},"modified":"2015-02-01T03:05:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T11:05:14","slug":"what-stephen-fry-would-say-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19524","title":{"rendered":"What Stephen Fry Would Say To God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-suvkwNYSQo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Transcript:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gay Byrne<\/strong>: Suppose it&#8217;s all true, and you walk up to the pearly gates, and are confronted by God. What will Stephen Fry say to him, her, or it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen Fry<\/strong>: I&#8217;d say, bone cancer in children? What&#8217;s that about? How dare you? How dare you create a world to which there is such misery that is not our fault. It&#8217;s not right. It&#8217;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&#8217;s what I would say.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Byrne<\/strong>: And you think you are going to get in, like that?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fry<\/strong>: No. But I wouldn&#8217;t want to. I wouldn&#8217;t want to get in on his terms. They&#8217;re wrong. Now, if I died and it was Pluto, Hades, and if it was the twelve Greek gods, then I would have more truck with it, because the Greeks were&#8230; They didn&#8217;t pretend to not be human in their appetites, in their capriciousness, and in their unreasonableness. They didn&#8217;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&#8230; utter maniac, totally selfish.<\/p>\n<p>We have to spend our life on our knees thanking him? What kind of god would do that? <\/p>\n<p>Yes, the world is very splendid, but it also has in it insects whose whole life cycle is to burrow into the eyes of children and make them blind. They eat outwards from the eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Why did you do that to us? You could easily have made a creation in which that didn\u2019t exist. It is simply not acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Atheism is not just about not believing there&#8217;s a god. On the assumption there is one, what kind of God is he? It\u2019s perfectly apparent that was monstrous, utterly monstrous, and deserves no respect. The moment you banish him, your life becomes simpler, purer cleaner, more worth living in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Byrne<\/strong>: That sure is the longest answer to that question I ever got in this entire series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcript: Gay Byrne: Suppose it&#8217;s all true, and you walk up to the pearly gates, and are confronted by God. What will Stephen Fry say to him, her, or it? Stephen Fry: I&#8217;d say, bone cancer in children? What&#8217;s that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19524\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19525,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19524\/revisions\/19525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}