Stephen Fry on God

[Exian]

You know the butthurt is bad when it gets all the way to the face.

Lol Awesome. What a useful phrase.

[robvalue]

But... but...mommy told me God was good and he loves me!

[Thumpalumpacus]

Back in California, I dated a lawyer for a while. We were talking about her profession once when she told me one of their maxims: In court, never ask a question if you don't already know the answer.

The thought occurs to me that this interviewer should perhaps take that advice to heart. He clearly thought he was grabbing a rope ... not a tiger by the tail.

[Cyberman]

Just in case anybody gives a shit, Ray Cumfart - in the safe seclusion of his FB page - felt he had this to say in response:

When Homosexual actor and author, Stephen Fry was recently asked what he would say to God if he faces Him after death, his answer was, “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."

Let's help this atheist bolster his case against God, by broadening his argument a little. It's not only bone cancer that kills children. They also get brain, blood, and lung cancer, suffocate from asthma, die from Ebola and of heart problems. Millions of children have also died of pneumonia, diarrhea, hepatitis, tuberculosis, and a thousand and one other diseases.

Then there are the hundreds of thousands of children who have been killed in earthquakes, floods, famines, tornadoes, tsunamis, and hurricanes.

God has also let children become sex slaves and be used in pornography, have bombs strapped to them by terrorists, and allowed millions to be murdered in Nazi Germany and in hundreds of other wars.

Then there are those children who have died through Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and the millions who are slaughtered each year through legalized abortion.

Mr. Atheist, if you really want an explanation as to why there is so much disease, endless suffering, injustice, and death, read your Bible. It will tell you that God did not create the world as it is, and it is us who are guilty of sin.

But, you're an atheist, so you don't believe God's Word or heed His sober warning of Hell. So you are stuck with what the Bible calls a willful ignorance.

One other thing. The Scriptures will also show you that there's no greater delusion of grandeur nor any greater arrogance, than for sinful man to stand in moral judgment over Almighty God. But if you remain as you are, you will find that out when you face Him.

Some of the comments are interesting, though. Especially Banana Boy's replies.

[snowtracks]

I love it - absofuckinglutely LOVE it - when people ask Fry a question they think is a stumper. BAM - he answers. No hesitation, no qualifiers, just a straightforward answer.

These feeps who interview Fry always seem to start with the misconception that they are smarter than he is.

Boru

You may love Stephen Fry’s response but there won’t be any questions asked (there is a reason for that), and no hubris will be on display when that time comes. This is the kind of response you get from people who lack spiritual discernment.

[downbeatplumb]

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Just in case anybody gives a shit, Ray Cumfart - in the safe seclusion of his FB page - felt he had this to say in response:

When Homosexual actor and author, Stephen Fry was recently asked what he would say to God if he faces Him after death, his answer was, “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."

Let's help this atheist bolster his case against God, by broadening his argument a little. It's not only bone cancer that kills children. They also get brain, blood, and lung cancer, suffocate from asthma, die from Ebola and of heart problems. Millions of children have also died of pneumonia, diarrhea, hepatitis, tuberculosis, and a thousand and one other diseases.

Then there are the hundreds of thousands of children who have been killed in earthquakes, floods, famines, tornadoes, tsunamis, and hurricanes.

God has also let children become sex slaves and be used in pornography, have bombs strapped to them by terrorists, and allowed millions to be murdered in Nazi Germany and in hundreds of other wars.

Then there are those children who have died through Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and the millions who are slaughtered each year through legalized abortion.

Mr. Atheist, if you really want an explanation as to why there is so much disease, endless suffering, injustice, and death, read your Bible. It will tell you that God did not create the world as it is, and it is us who are guilty of sin.

But, you're an atheist, so you don't believe God's Word or heed His sober warning of Hell. So you are stuck with what the Bible calls a willful ignorance.

One other thing. The Scriptures will also show you that there's no greater delusion of grandeur nor any greater arrogance, than for sinful man to stand in moral judgment over Almighty God. But if you remain as you are, you will find that out when you face Him.

Some of the comments are interesting, though. Especially Banana Boy's replies.

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Why did Ray Comfort bring Stephen Frys sexuality into it?

It had no relevance to the argument and just came across as him trying to insult Stephen even though this is not how Stephen would take it.

If he was trying to poison the well it would only work with bigots.

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I love it - absofuckinglutely LOVE it - when people ask Fry a question they think is a stumper. BAM - he answers. No hesitation, no qualifiers, just a straightforward answer.

These feeps who interview Fry always seem to start with the misconception that they are smarter than he is.

Boru

You may love Stephen Fry’s response but there won’t be any questions asked (there is a reason for that), and no hubris will be on display when that time comes. This is the kind of response you get from people who lack spiritual discernment.

How so?

[robvalue]

Oooooh emotional manipulation from the christian! Run out of arguments, lay on the threats.

[Lucanus]

Just in case anybody gives a shit, Ray Cumfart - in the safe seclusion of his FB page - felt he had this to say in response:

When Homosexual actor and author, Stephen Fry was recently asked what he would say to God if he faces Him after death, his answer was, “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."

Let's help this atheist bolster his case against God, by broadening his argument a little. It's not only bone cancer that kills children. They also get brain, blood, and lung cancer, suffocate from asthma, die from Ebola and of heart problems. Millions of children have also died of pneumonia, diarrhea, hepatitis, tuberculosis, and a thousand and one other diseases.

Then there are the hundreds of thousands of children who have been killed in earthquakes, floods, famines, tornadoes, tsunamis, and hurricanes.

God has also let children become sex slaves and be used in pornography, have bombs strapped to them by terrorists, and allowed millions to be murdered in Nazi Germany and in hundreds of other wars.

Then there are those children who have died through Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and the millions who are slaughtered each year through legalized abortion.

Mr. Atheist, if you really want an explanation as to why there is so much disease, endless suffering, injustice, and death, read your Bible. It will tell you that God did not create the world as it is, and it is us who are guilty of sin.

But, you're an atheist, so you don't believe God's Word or heed His sober warning of Hell. So you are stuck with what the Bible calls a willful ignorance.

One other thing. The Scriptures will also show you that there's no greater delusion of grandeur nor any greater arrogance, than for sinful man to stand in moral judgment over Almighty God. But if you remain as you are, you will find that out when you face Him.

Some of the comments are interesting, though. Especially Banana Boy's replies.

Ray Comfort - jumping from the frying pan into the fireplace since Creation Day.

[robvalue]

Translated, CumFart is saying that not only does God kill children with bone cancer, he also klls them in a huge variety of weird and wonderful ways. Then blames us.

Everything this moron says about atheists destroys my irony-o-meter.

[Norman Humann]

Just in case anybody gives a shit, Ray Cumfart