Response: Stephen Fry on God - The Meaning Of Life

Stephen Fry’s Argument

In his short interview, which already has over three million views on YouTube, he started that “It’s utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid God who creates a world which is so full of injustice and pain?” He continued that “Because the God who created this universe, if it was created by God, is quite clearly a maniac, utter maniac. Totally selfish. We have to spend our life on our knees thanking him?! What kind of God would do that?” When prompted to explain the wonders of the world he lashed out, “Yes, the world is very splendid, but it also has in it insects whose whole lifecycle is to burrow into the eyes of children and make them blind. They eat outwards from the eyes. Why? Why did you do that to us? You could easily have made a creation in which that didn’t exist. It is simply not acceptable. He finally ended with “It’s perfectly apparent that he is monstrous. Utterly monstrous and deserves no respect whatsoever. The moment you banish him, life becomes simpler, purer, cleaner, more worth living in my opinion.”

In summary, his argument is that:

• If God created the world, he is a maniac. Why has he create it with so much suffering?
• If he is all powerful, he could have easily created the world with no suffering. In fact, he can stop the suffering right now, but he chooses not to.
• A life without God, will lead to happiness.

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