Stephen Fry calls God an ‘evil, capricious, monstrous maniac’.
02-02-2015, 17:55
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Re: Stephen Fry calls God an ‘evil, capricious, monstrous maniac’.
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"Melchett was weakest Black Adder character" says God.
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God sounds really bitter.
is he feeling stupid. I wonder.
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02-02-2015, 19:38
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Re: Stephen Fry calls God an ‘evil, capricious, monstrous maniac’.
Nope, Prince George was by the far the worst.
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02-02-2015, 20:16
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Re: Stephen Fry calls God an ‘evil, capricious, monstrous maniac’.
Scary part is that Ireland could prosecute Stephen Fry for that. Gotta love blasphemy laws.
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02-02-2015, 22:15
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Re: Stephen Fry calls God an ‘evil, capricious, monstrous maniac’.
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Scary part is that Ireland could prosecute Stephen Fry for that. Gotta love blasphemy laws.
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Then all his fans would repeat it, I'd like so see them try and prosecute several million people 
If a guy who was mugged can get Ł320,000 from 24,000 strangers, then a respected person like SF should have no problem
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03-02-2015, 12:14
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Re: Stephen Fry calls God an ‘evil, capricious, monstrous maniac’.
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Originally Posted by Chris
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In fairness to Stephen, I don't believe he is saying he prefers the Greek Gods because he believes they are paragons of virtue, but he prefers them because they aren't pretending to be anything other than what Tim says they are. Christianity, on the other hand, appears to be telling us that God loves everyone while God is busy killing people by the million.
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Shock! Horror! Someone vehemently says they don't believe in a god and why..and people get upset.If they didn't want the answer why ask..
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That's something that angers me a little. We have various programmes about religion, sometimes telling us how great various Gods are. We even have fairly frequent broadcasts from various Churches. This is, at the very least, allowed to pass with little comment, if not actively encouraged.
Yet the minute one man dares question that God's motives, people are seemingly up in arms about it.
Chris bought up the example of the exam paper. It is possible to question exam papers as happened at Sheffield Uni. Exam papers can also be wrong, as I experienced in one of my exam papers. It was a programming exam, and we had to dissect some code, explaining it line by line. There was one command I did not recognise, so I had a guess at what it did. I then consulted a friend who was an expert in that language (and won a BAFTA for one of his games), and he said the command did not exist, but my guess at what it was trying to do was probably fairly accurate.
My point is that exams *can* be questioned. Marks can also be adjusted if they are found to be unfair. Why can't God's motives be questioned? Why aren't Atheists given the same rights to question the existence of God in our media that the various religions are given to tell us how great He is? Most programmes don't mention God, but that is not the same thing as questioning whether God exists.
Don't get me wrong, while I personally don't believe in God, I believe everyone has the right to decide whether to believe in God or not. But I also feel that questioning our understanding of God will also (assuming he does exist) increase that understanding and actually benefit everyone.
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10-02-2015, 18:16
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Re: Stephen Fry calls God an ‘evil, capricious, monstrous maniac’.
Rowan Williams responds to Stephen Fry's tirade on God
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31360903
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10-02-2015, 18:20
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Re: Stephen Fry calls God an ‘evil, capricious, monstrous maniac’.
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Rowan Williams responds to Stephen Fry's tirade on God
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He said that the same protest voices appeared in the book of Psalms and Job in the Bible.
He added that the fact many people "at the heart of suffering" still maintain a trust in God should make one refrain from blaming him for such events.
does he think that's it then?
everyone shouldn't question why 'God' is so evil in that he makes people suffer. for his gain even?
If anything we should look at it in more detail.
who wants a God that hurts people?
you know you would want a nice God that doesn't take your babies and loved ones from you. so question yourself.
21st century!
mobile phones.
SKY TV!
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