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  • Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
  • #atheist #secular #religion #normalizingatheism
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    Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director & writer.
    What Stephen Fry said about God?
    He went on to say that Greek gods "didn't present themselves as being all seeing, all wise, all beneficent", adding "the god who created this universe, if it was created by god, is quite clearly a maniac, an utter maniac, totally selfish".
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    If you live in a densely populated country, &/or city, & the people are believers of gods & supernatural claims, to the point that they live their lives by rules & guidelines written down thousands of years ago by man claiming to have gotten said rules from different versions of different gods, & you're still not convinced...
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    No problem, we're here sharing information about what atheism is. That’s because it’s literally only one simple thing... the disbelief in any deity claim, that’s it. Some say, the lack of belief, or the denial of belief, however you look at it, if you do not accept the claim that supernatural powers are at force, (in the form of "a god") at the level of concerning "itself" with what we eat, wear & whom we have relationships with, then you’re an atheist. The opposite to an atheist is a theist. There are also more terms for people who believe or disbelieve such as, deists, pantheists, anti-theists, & some other variations & varieties. To simply put it, if you don’t believe in the claim that a god or gods exist, you’re not what the claim is making you out to (supposedly) be.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 747

  • @Anne--Marie
    @Anne--Marie Рік тому +79

    As someone who lost a sister to bone cancer 60 years ago, I can agree with Mr. Frye.

  • @janw491
    @janw491 Рік тому +100

    I admire this man’s brain, intellect, reasoning and amazing empathy.

    • @rogerkay8603
      @rogerkay8603 10 місяців тому +4

      All of this, he's a treasure

    • @bencornell4432
      @bencornell4432 Місяць тому

      Sadly, he does not understand what he is talking about.

    • @vtwin1979
      @vtwin1979 Місяць тому

      @@bencornell4432
      Why?
      Because he lives in the reality of our Earth?
      Not some fantasy where people think a book proves the book?
      That my friend is what happens when people are crippled by the unknown and fill it with a comfort of a god of some sort.

  • @Lance-yl5sz
    @Lance-yl5sz Рік тому +131

    Love the interviewers face in the first clip. Thank you Stephen for being you.

    • @Kevin-mx1vi
      @Kevin-mx1vi Рік тому +25

      It was Gay Byrne, a highly respected Irish broadcaster, and being Irish I would assume he was also a Catholic, for whom the idea of someone berating God for the suffering and injustice in the world would have been utterly shocking.
      The thing is; my youngest son survived leukemia, so I've spent a lot of time on a children's cancer ward and seen them suffering. You would have to be utterly stupid not to question what kind of god would allow such a horrible thing.

    • @peteby485
      @peteby485 Рік тому +1

      I saw that interview and it was brilliant to see gay byrne put in his place by Stephen fry .gay Byrne was a puppet of the state and church and glad I don't see him on TV anymore .

    • @RitchieLion
      @RitchieLion Рік тому +16

      The irony of a (potentially) god fearing Catholic being called Gay is too much to keep to myself.

    • @75slaine
      @75slaine Рік тому +8

      Having grown up watching Gay Byrne do interviews on Friday night TV I can tell you that that kind of exaggeration of expression is part of his style. It was an excellent interview.

    • @kipperrepublic3568
      @kipperrepublic3568 Рік тому +7

      His name was Gay Byrne. He was an amazing man. He was the presenter of The Late Late Show in Ireland. But that look he gave was one of a religious man that was shocked by Stephen's brilliant insight. Long live free speech and open mindedness.

  • @hilarymorrison8211
    @hilarymorrison8211 Рік тому +72

    He's actually right. After my Medical career...I won't go into it I'm now Atheist and happy to see the truth.

    • @memybikeni9931
      @memybikeni9931 Рік тому +11

      Recently someone said to me “ I can’t believe you don’t believe in god”, I just responded I don’t believe in antiscientific fairytales. I have faith in science, I believe in evidence. I’m a Free Thinking Athiest.

    • @DeanSpence-d9c
      @DeanSpence-d9c 10 місяців тому +7

      ​@memybikeni9931 great comment. Ha ha I think that way to. Especially like the antiscience fairytale ha ha

  • @BLAB-it5un
    @BLAB-it5un Рік тому +135

    The contempt of the Irish interviewer is all you need to know about the corruption of religion and particularly Christianity. He is ultimately offended by anyone who would dare challenge his ancient fantasy about a fairy in the sky loving you while he threatens and orders you to behave on punishment of hell. This man likely has never heard anyone directly and bluntly challenge the insanity of his made-up god the way Stephen Fry does here.

    • @BLAB-it5un
      @BLAB-it5un Рік тому

      @dominionphilosophy3698 Is there a point to your stupid reply? Is this the classic religious cult member demanding silence from critics so as not to have to contemplate that his fantasy is really a farce? As an Irish person I find the slavery of the RC church to be one of the greatest crimes inflicted on the Irish people. And the contempt of the interviewer plays this out. "How dare you challenge my belief in a fairy tale daddy in the sky keeping watch over me and promising me eternity! Please don't make me grow out of my childhood delusions! Stop making me think for myself!" Christianity is pure evil.

    • @seosamhdude
      @seosamhdude 9 місяців тому +4

      Yep and it's especially surprising from that presenter who in his early career was by all intents and purposes against the churches influence in Irish society around issues of abortion gay rights etc... I'm not saying he gets a pass but certainly at the time the contempt was surprising, I think too that the reason the look was so prevalent was because on some level Gay Byrne knew the flaws stephen fry was exposing were valid.

    • @davidconlon2629
      @davidconlon2629 7 місяців тому

      Gay Byrne - monkey see, monkey do. Give these ignorant people not one second of your time. God is as real as Santa or the Easter bunny. Simple minds need a reason to get up in the morning. That reason is some celestial being, created by the dreams of the misdirected.

    • @deanodog3667
      @deanodog3667 5 місяців тому

      That's gay byrne, sanctimonious prick

    • @Mmouse_
      @Mmouse_ 3 місяці тому +3

      It didn't shake him at all... He was disgusted at fry, everything he said and he wrote it off almost as quickly as the words came from fry's mouth.
      That man is fully, indoctrinated... And a conversation with fry, or anyone, even a demonstrably and testably real, yet different god...
      He could converse with an omnipotent being who told him his beliefs were stupid and incorrect and it wouldn't change a thing in his mind; that's the scale of how fundamentally broken these types of people are, and frighteningly they are the majority.
      Think about that for a second... Globally... People like that are the majority, wild isn't it?

  • @WorldsWorstPerson141
    @WorldsWorstPerson141 Рік тому +62

    “I wouldn’t want to get in on his his terms” beautiful

    • @fred3893
      @fred3893 8 місяців тому +2

      I wonder if he would actually say that considering the alternative.

    • @jackthebassman1
      @jackthebassman1 7 місяців тому +3

      @@fred3893What’s the “alternative” ?

    • @fred3893
      @fred3893 7 місяців тому +2

      @@jackthebassman1 The alternative to Heaven is obviously Hell.

    • @jackthebassman1
      @jackthebassman1 7 місяців тому +7

      @@fred3893 Another delusional invented by the religious hierarchy to keep believers from questioning the ridiculous fantasy.

    • @fred3893
      @fred3893 7 місяців тому +1

      @@jackthebassman1 Or Not.

  • @nickgagnon3626
    @nickgagnon3626 2 роки тому +134

    Stephen has strong empathy. I admire that.

    • @MichaelJamesYouTube
      @MichaelJamesYouTube 2 роки тому +3

    • @AndrewJens
      @AndrewJens Рік тому

      Yes he does. And do you know why that is? It's because he's honest and he is relating the truth (that religion, of any sort, is bullshit).

    • @AndrewJens
      @AndrewJens Рік тому +1

      @@sophiafake-virus2456 Can you point to anything where I assumed anything about you? (Please make sure that you take your medication on all weekdays.)

    • @AndrewJens
      @AndrewJens Рік тому

      @@sophiafake-virus2456 Re. _"… I assumed …"_ thanks for admitting that I wasn't originally referring to you in any way and that you have serious (unresolved) issues. (Psst: I didn't realise you existed when I posted my first comment in this thread. Get it?).
      I'm no longer _implying_ that you are not sane. We all now know that outcome for sure (based on your illogical and farked-up comments). Here's hoping that you don't dig yourself deeper (you do realise that these comments are forever, don't you?).

  • @jameswood214
    @jameswood214 Рік тому +78

    this man is a great person, telling it like it is, no lies, not selling religion, just as it is.

    • @fred3893
      @fred3893 8 місяців тому

      I think you mean telling it like YOU think it is.

  • @captpicard6894
    @captpicard6894 Рік тому +34

    I honestly couldn’t admire Stephen Fry anymore than I do. Hugely intelligent, humble, engaging, thoughtful and enormously charming man. Top, top Bloke👏👏👏👏👏

    • @fillipo1972
      @fillipo1972 Місяць тому +1

      You really should listen to his 3 autobiographical audio books, in order. Start with Moab Is My Washpot.

  • @vikingzeroone9647
    @vikingzeroone9647 Рік тому +67

    I grew up in a Catholic family. But the more I learned of the atrocities and bullshit Christianity and, to an extension, Religion had done, the more I wished I'd just tell my family I don't want to be religious.

    • @arsenic1987
      @arsenic1987 Рік тому +4

      It's unfortunate, that what Stephen also says: "Did the mistake of being honest", is also quite true... And being honest, unfortunately gets you into trouble with the ones that claim to be "morally right!".. I don't envy your position, and I wish that your family could just get 10 seconds "in your head" to "see what you see".. Then they'd know, that you're not a "EVIL UNBELIEVER!" by "DENYING GOD!"... They'd know you're still, and possibly more, a loving person.

    • @vikingzeroone9647
      @vikingzeroone9647 Рік тому +1

      @@arsenic1987 No, they're not bad, per say. It's just that majority of them are religious but not to an extreme. Most'll probably be fine about it, but I don't know if my grandparents and some of my extended family members might like it.

    • @KenMasters.
      @KenMasters. Рік тому

      That's actually a lie:
      • Christians and Catholics aren't on the same boat at all. But out-of-touch Hatetheists love to stereotype the two out of ignorance.
      • Religious people caused 6% of atteocities throughout history, while Nihilistic people caused 92%. (Source: The Encyclopedia of Wars)
      • Hatetheists will use anything as a weak excuse to leave God, rather than to finding a personal relationship with Him.

  • @petyrkowalski9887
    @petyrkowalski9887 Рік тому +45

    Scrawled into a cell wall at Auschwitz concentration camp after the 1945 liberation read: « if I meet god, he will need to beg me for forgiveness ».

    • @scotte4765
      @scotte4765 3 місяці тому +1

      From what I have read, this was found at the Mauthausen concentration camp, not Auschwitz. The idea is of course fitting and relevant to the topic either way.

    • @saltyseadog4719
      @saltyseadog4719 2 місяці тому

      Mic drop😂

  • @peteradams5857
    @peteradams5857 Рік тому +52

    Stephen Fry talking sense. What a change from all those religious leaders talking nonsense

  • @mtkoslowski
    @mtkoslowski 3 місяці тому +4

    I’ve always loved your keen intellect Stephen Fry. Long may you live and be appreciated. Please speak out for all of us.

  • @donaldmcronald8989
    @donaldmcronald8989 2 роки тому +73

    I'm an atheist because the all powerful external reality that created me shows absolutely no interest in my well being. Clearly it is indifferent.

    • @NormalizingAtheism
      @NormalizingAtheism  2 роки тому +1

    • @tenaciousminion8753
      @tenaciousminion8753 2 роки тому +10

      Reading this is a reminder of how extremely painful it was for me to acknowledge there is no higher power that is going to protect or help me. I still feel so betrayed by the bullshit that continues to be fed to and believed by millions of people.

    • @tayzk5929
      @tayzk5929 2 роки тому +1

      This is one of the worst arguments for atheism, but it does show atheists are atheists for emotional reasons. Nothing to do with logic or reason.

    • @NormalizingAtheism
      @NormalizingAtheism  2 роки тому +3

      @@tayzk5929 for the sake of your comment, what does becoming more logical & more critical of religious dogma by means of emotion have that could be a negative?

    • @tayzk5929
      @tayzk5929 2 роки тому +1

      @@NormalizingAtheism That's not for the sake of my comment at all, your reply has nothing to do with my comment.

  • @fuqueue7242
    @fuqueue7242 8 місяців тому +6

    he's a brilliant man and speaks my mind perfectly for what I'm unable to express for myself

  • @8964TS
    @8964TS Рік тому +16

    I like that he gives examples which have no connection to free will, meaning nobody can reply with that usual comeback. If you talk about war and murder and corruption etc, people just cry ‘god gave us free will’. Can’t blame burrowing insects on human choice.

  • @BenDover-tj8vf
    @BenDover-tj8vf Рік тому +29

    A great intelligent caring human being . Live long and happy sir

  • @BobbierocksBuster1415
    @BobbierocksBuster1415 Рік тому +36

    Gotta love Stephen Fry,one of the best human beings on planet earth.

  • @MM-yi9zn
    @MM-yi9zn Рік тому +10

    Magnificent! Stephen dares to proclaim the truth!

  • @willytheriot8439
    @willytheriot8439 Рік тому +19

    I admire Stephen Fry. Genuine, kind, smart, and brave.

  • @Pissedoffdetective
    @Pissedoffdetective Рік тому +12

    Raised Church of England myself. Been Agnostic since around the age of 18. I live my life by the 1 and only true commandment. 'Treat others as you would expect to be treated yourself' Covers my ass so to speak, just like my Husband does!! If there is something else after...well I know I'm going up the elevator, and not down. If there isn't...well I know me being around has at least left smiles on people's faces and not frowns.

    • @briancarton1804
      @briancarton1804 Рік тому +1

      As I said to a friend turned Jesus freak , if there is a down and hell is all fire and brimstone " you're gods an evil fucker , any creature that would burn any other creature for eternity is an evil psychopathic fucker".

    • @chimaobibarnabas
      @chimaobibarnabas 17 днів тому

      How do you know paradise up or down. Religions teachings??😅

  • @petermcquaid2070
    @petermcquaid2070 Рік тому +7

    Top man Stephen and that’s why we love you so much!

  • @jimmyrasta2606
    @jimmyrasta2606 Рік тому +8

    It's really simple, if there were a god, we wouldn't be talking about it!! ✌

  • @davidpalmer4184
    @davidpalmer4184 26 днів тому

    Stephen has to be one of the most intelligent and well spoken people on the planet. Much respect.

  • @SunDown.
    @SunDown. 2 роки тому +30

    I enjoyed this little compilation... Thanks!

  • @johnnymartinjohansen
    @johnnymartinjohansen Рік тому +36

    Beliefe in God in the western hemisphere is on a steep decline. People are finally getting smarter.

    • @budd2nd
      @budd2nd Рік тому +6

      Getting better access to education, will do that.

    • @jgage2344
      @jgage2344 Рік тому

      Just not true ….doubts grow but intelligence doesn’t..
      The western hemisphere spells belief without an added e …

    • @paulashe61
      @paulashe61 Рік тому +4

      The Middle East needs to evolve too.

    • @KenMasters.
      @KenMasters. Рік тому

      Actually, that's a lie to, here's why:
      ua-cam.com/video/s4Ti1YCVTtU/v-deo.html

    • @budd2nd
      @budd2nd Рік тому

      @@KenMasters.
      Those slides are JUST projections, not actual facts.

  • @celticman3053
    @celticman3053 Рік тому +24

    Stephen Fry ! You are a legend !! At last common down to earth sense about the most brutal, cowardly and miserly organisations on the planet, “Man will only ever be free when the last King is strangled with the entrails of the last Priest” Merciful god my Snow White ass.

  • @malthomas987
    @malthomas987 Рік тому +9

    the reaction of the interviewer @0:36 says it all for me

  • @normanwolfe7639
    @normanwolfe7639 Рік тому +11

    Ok Stephen please tell us how you really feel!
    Lol. Love it

  • @debbiecameron6574
    @debbiecameron6574 Рік тому +13

    I was 8-9 years old and I remember seeing more and more things about the Starving Children in Africa and that got me thinking that if there were a God, why would he be so mean and let children die such a slow cruel death! Ever since then I gave up belief in God and my husband and children feel the same! I always say my heart would love to believe in Heaven but my mind just won't allow it! All the rest of my family believes in God and when I asked my 93 year old dad if he was scared to die, he said No because he was going to heaven and he would be reunited with his family that went before him including my 2 brothers. How lovely but I believe there is no such place and one of those brothers I just mentuoned, died at 39 1/2 weeks in utero, what was the sense of that? He was a perfectly healthy and formed baby that died because the cord slipped around his neck! Why did God feel the need to take him and rob him of a life here on Earth? Religion is pure bullshit and thank you Stephen for sharing your wisdom to a planet full of of ignorant people ! ❤️👍

  • @olivierfouassier6495
    @olivierfouassier6495 Рік тому +5

    Simply a Humanist 📚✨❤

  • @stealmysunshine
    @stealmysunshine Рік тому +13

    I love that from Ratzinger: a former Hitler Youth member calling others Morally Evil.
    Let's just think of that for a moment ....

    • @peteraschaffenburg1
      @peteraschaffenburg1 Рік тому +2

      It´s funny you should say that. There are loads of atrocities one could despise him for but being in the Hitler Jugend isn´t one of them.

    • @markbriten6999
      @markbriten6999 Рік тому +5

      Like oh I don't know covering up for child abusing priests, now that's morally evil

    • @peteraschaffenburg1
      @peteraschaffenburg1 Рік тому +7

      @@markbriten6999 or telling Africa AIDS is bad but condoms are worse.
      Compared to that vile stuff, being forced into the Hitler Jugend is minor.

    • @dying2survive298
      @dying2survive298 Рік тому

      Your church rapes it’s youth members

  • @jackthebassman1
    @jackthebassman1 7 місяців тому +1

    Stephen is so absolutely right. When my young son was a toddler and really dangerously ill with encephalitis, did I pray! Of course not. However, if I believed in all that fantasy and had prayed no doubt I would have thanked the “lord” for hearing my prayers and sending us a miracle. Mitchell did get over it thankfully and is now a big healthy man and a father of an our amazing grand children.

    • @dogwithwigwamz.7320
      @dogwithwigwamz.7320 6 місяців тому

      I`m so glad that survival endures in your family. But where does you family come from ? At some time in the past it must have either come from nothing or come from something which must neccessarily exist.
      That which comes from nothing is the very definition of Magic and that which must exist is the very definition of God. Ergo you believe Magic or you believe in God.

    • @jackthebassman1
      @jackthebassman1 6 місяців тому

      @@dogwithwigwamz.7320 You know absolutely NOTHING about my family, and to pretend you do is dishonest to say the least.
      I was a toddler of 18 months and in my mother’s arms when we were struck from behind by a heavy vehicle that failed to stop.
      My poor father wasn’t in the vehicle at the time and on hearing a crash ran back to see a scene of horror my mother dead, with me in her arms in the mangled remains. I was severely and critically injured and at 77 suffer increasingly from those old injuries, my poor dad was left with a stutter and endured nightmares for many years after. He told me when I was a teenager that it was only the fact that I had somehow very narrowly survived and was hospitalised for many months that stopped him from taking his own life. My step mother was a wonderful lady who brought me up as her own but was struck down first with polio and then tuberculosis and spent many months in hospital; my step brother and me were brought up by my grand parents.
      This “god” was supposed to take care of us, but obviously went awol.
      As it is awol for the millions of innocent little children for whom he created some exquisite conditions, ie childhood leukaemia, bone cancer to name just a couple - it also created such amazing life forms as the insect that drills into the eyeballs of toddlers (very prevalent in the impoverished third world) to gorge its vile self on living brain tissue to then er up out to fund other juicy victims leaving the unfortunate toddler a shuffling, dribbling, blind zombie and a further burden on an already impoverished family, anyone who justifies this couple of examples of the “lord’s” loving care is either very successfully indoctrinated and terrified of the threats in the scriptures that to question “gods” existence is the only thing that will not be “forgiven”, question “god” and burn - the scriptural threats make the mafia look like kindergarten nurses by comparison.
      Any belief that has to be held in place with mafia type threats is not worth even considering, unless of course terror is used to convince people to comply.
      Further:
      Belief in a deity than cannot be seen, heard, felt or experienced in any sense apart from the imagination is just plain stupid and is achieved via years, or generations of indoctrination and is incompatible with reason and so the existence of such a thing is so absolutely remote as to be considered irrelevant by any rational person.

  • @karlad4082
    @karlad4082 Рік тому +8

    He is 1000% correct 😊👌🏼

    • @jimnewcombe7584
      @jimnewcombe7584 Рік тому

      Percentages don't exceed 100, so we'll assume that's hyperbole.

    • @Clarity_Control
      @Clarity_Control Рік тому +2

      @@jimnewcombe7584
      I bet you’re great fun at parties

    • @jimnewcombe7584
      @jimnewcombe7584 Рік тому

      @@Clarity_Control I'll try any drug going, and have plenty of goodwill - but lax inexactitude is diabolical at parties.

  • @michellew4637
    @michellew4637 Рік тому +6

    Spot on!

  • @InformationIsTheEdge
    @InformationIsTheEdge 5 днів тому

    4:50 Steven and Stephen! That was a classic meeting of minds.

  • @daviddavid5880
    @daviddavid5880 Рік тому +2

    These questions fall squarely under Hitchen's Razor. What a remarkably tolerant man.

  • @camrenwick
    @camrenwick Рік тому +21

    Giving an honest opinion about almost anything, is something that liars really hate.

  • @stephencarver2888
    @stephencarver2888 2 роки тому +4

    This is wonderful man 100 days since Thich Nhat Hanh’s passing | Plum Village

  • @lancep4164
    @lancep4164 Рік тому +3

    Right on Stephen!

  • @MM-yi9zn
    @MM-yi9zn Рік тому +9

    Love his passionate disbelief

  • @fillipo1972
    @fillipo1972 Місяць тому

    I love Mr Stephen Fry.

  • @Mrz-sb1hw
    @Mrz-sb1hw 5 місяців тому +2

    A number of people I've talked to don't want anything to do with God even if he does exist. Probably myself included.

  • @carlotomass119
    @carlotomass119 2 роки тому +35

    Stephen got it spot on !!

  • @chrisdee1583
    @chrisdee1583 2 роки тому +24

    Tremendous stuff 👍

  • @0Zolrender0
    @0Zolrender0 Рік тому +3

    I didn't know Stephen was gay until today when I saw this video. Goes to show that most of the time, the most empathetic people on the planet, are those most hated by the self righteous. The self righteous being the most bigoted on the planet.

  • @sanderschat
    @sanderschat 2 місяці тому +2

    "That is not nice, it isnt nice" sums it pretty nicely

  • @vickydurose2773
    @vickydurose2773 Рік тому +3

    Love Stephen so much, thank you Stephen I’m so grateful for all you do , you’ve helped me in my life and leaving religion, I will be grateful to you for the rest of my days ❤️

  • @lordhorrorshow
    @lordhorrorshow 2 роки тому +6

    luv this guy...

  • @janwalravens7633
    @janwalravens7633 2 місяці тому

    he's just wonderful.

  • @danbev8542
    @danbev8542 Рік тому +4

    Stephen Fry is an international treasure! My thought, every time I watch a nature program with predator and prey…if God was such a great Designer, why would he devise a world where the cheetah mother has to kill the antelope mother, or baby, in order to feed her own? It’s a pretty cruel plan, imo. A Jehovah’s Witness once told me that someday god will “fix” things so that the lion will eat straw like the lamb. Well, if true, he’s certainly taking his time, and he needs to radically change the lion’s nutritional needs! I should have asked if humans were going to stop eating lambs too. We humans seem to believe anything…from illogical fairy stories, to rigged elections, when it’s been proved otherwise again and again.

  • @waltergordon4682
    @waltergordon4682 Рік тому +3

    Amazing man.

  • @peteby485
    @peteby485 Рік тому +3

    Loved that interview it was great to see gay Byrne lost for words as he was always a puppet of the state and church .

  • @kevimely7410
    @kevimely7410 Рік тому +2

    Man you certainly just went up massively in my estimation...i couldnt believe the words from your mouth the first minute or so...my thoughts exactly...have been for years...why so much pain and suffering in this world...i could rant forever about all the wrong things...youre my absolute hero for speaking your mind...and i find it quite astonishing that most of the 'switched on' religious people i fire questions at cant find answers...oh...im sorry but im anti gay!

    • @NormalizingAtheism
      @NormalizingAtheism  Рік тому

      I’ll pray for you.

    • @kevimely7410
      @kevimely7410 Рік тому

      @@NormalizingAtheism find something to do that ll learn you something n stand you in good stead...instead of time wasting!

    • @jackthebassman1
      @jackthebassman1 7 місяців тому

      @@NormalizingAtheismlol, that’ll work just as well as all the other prayers.

  • @Personalfinance_10174
    @Personalfinance_10174 2 місяці тому +1

    So few people are out there articulating this crystal clear case. We need more people like S. Fry.. Other than political power, i really don't get what the whole upside of anti-abortion, pro-gun, pro-god us gop thing is - it isn't even logically consistent.

    • @Personalfinance_10174
      @Personalfinance_10174 2 місяці тому

      Another great argument that I haven't heard anyone emphasize, esp. since the blockbuster Oppenheimer movie. "What kind of god creates people, helps them along to 2 billion strong, and then allows them to invent nuclear weapons?"

  • @haydenharris3059
    @haydenharris3059 Рік тому +2

    God is a sounding board for speculation.
    I love Stephen ❤

    • @KenMasters.
      @KenMasters. Рік тому

      Those who lack wisdom will see nothing but words of speculation.
      Because the fool hath said in his heart there is no God.

    • @haydenharris3059
      @haydenharris3059 Рік тому

      @@KenMasters. Bravo 👏 😆 🤣 😂 😹

  • @JPJMando
    @JPJMando Рік тому +3

    Simple logic always defeats the irrational.

  • @mauricelaidler4789
    @mauricelaidler4789 7 місяців тому

    Thank you, Stephen.

  • @suzannemackenzie2625
    @suzannemackenzie2625 Рік тому +1

    You went to uppingham like my brother… and you went back and gave a speech…. He says he will remember what you said for the rest of his life. X

  • @jaym6501
    @jaym6501 Рік тому +2

    I like him.
    Keep up the Good work.

  • @geoffreybolton1461
    @geoffreybolton1461 3 місяці тому +2

    I totally agree , God is a sadist and a psychopath, who enjoys creating pain , grief, and heartache, who enjoys war, carnage, and bloodshed,..

  • @NickeeCarter
    @NickeeCarter Рік тому +16

    I love him so much.

  • @arthurbriand2175
    @arthurbriand2175 2 роки тому +11

    Put out the Hitchens, I'll put out the pop-corn.

  • @michaelzajic6231
    @michaelzajic6231 2 місяці тому +1

    You got it right.

  • @diego1590
    @diego1590 3 місяці тому +1

    Fry´s mentality is what has taken England to be what it is today.

  • @haldosprime3896
    @haldosprime3896 Рік тому +1

    For me personally, I cannot hate religion. I cannot in my heart leer at someone because they don't believe in something I do. I can scratch my head as to why they would deny the scientific findings that are backed up by evidence we can observe today but I cannot and will not look down on them for it.
    The disconnect of religious belief in my mind is not because I cannot fathom a creature that may be capable of extraordinary things, including creating life or whatever. We as humans have shown that a creature with that kind of power could potentially exist out there in the cosmos given our technology and understanding of nature today. The disconnect comes from an infallible, purely benevolent, kind, loving and morally good creature that is 100% all powerful, all knowing and all encompassing that's watching us every moment of our lives constantly and also does nothing about the incredible misery it MUST be responsible for. It cannot be all powerful, all knowing and purely benevolent and not be responsible for things like cancer (or the mentioned insects) that can destroy innocent lives, especially childrens out of nowhere. It either is limited in its power, it's fallible or its not benevolent.
    I don't care which one it is. If God is fallible it make sense with what we observe everyday. If God is malevolent (or at the very least indifferent) then it makes sense with what we observe everyday. If God is not all powerful, then it makes sense. I just want it to make sense and it doesn't make sense as soon as you bring in the moral characteristics. If Christians came out and said "We acknowledge that God is fallible but we believe that he is always trying to do better because he loves us and we love him and accept his failures for we and Him are capable of great things" I'd have way less to say. In fact, I might actually empathize and feel a tangible connection to God for I also am fallible and make mistakes and try to do better. That would make me feel an emotion towards the concept, regardless if I actually put my faith into it.

  • @baracuda121
    @baracuda121 5 місяців тому

    Stephen Fry is the worlds favourite polymath.❤ him.

  • @jerryrichendollar7096
    @jerryrichendollar7096 2 роки тому +18

    Mr Fry did Oscar Wilde justice.

    • @healthydee381
      @healthydee381 Рік тому

      Oscar Wilde converted to Catholicism on his deathbed.

    • @Here_is_Waldo
      @Here_is_Waldo Рік тому +4

      He was hours away from death and in extreme pain. He didn't want to cease existing so probably figured it was worth a shot. If the plane you're in is on fire, you might grab any backpack as you jump out because while you know it's probably not a parachute, doesn't hurt to hope.

    • @jimnewcombe7584
      @jimnewcombe7584 Рік тому

      @@Here_is_Waldo Indeed - but that's not the way it works. You can't cling to the hems of religion because fatality occurs. I'm not saying that as someone who adheres to a religion either. But then the notion of a God (or gods and goddesses) is distinct from religion.

  • @AlcibiadesMD
    @AlcibiadesMD 25 днів тому

    I know I am not going to live forever and neither are you, but until my furlough here on earth is revoked, I shall like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my Martini 🍸 glass high above my head, in honor of the brilliant intellect, and passionate erudition of Stephen Fry, his logic, well researched ideas and opinions will forever enshrine him amongst the giants of reason, I love 💕 him.

  • @dariusfatherofxerxes7701
    @dariusfatherofxerxes7701 Рік тому +7

    Excellent. My better question, is that if there were a god, (there isn't, there are myriad, just depending on time and place), why would a god create us? Boredom, an experiment. If you're a god, you wouldn't need to experiment with primates as, you're a god. What would a god hope to learn? It really is backwards.
    Man has always created the gods that he required, and no god has had any hand in the machinations of man as they only exist in the minds of man (generally Men in particular, though forced upon women.).

    • @Here_is_Waldo
      @Here_is_Waldo Рік тому

      Depends on what is meant by 'god'. Is a God all-powerful, or just more powerful than humans? All-powerful would have no reason to create us, but just powerful might.

    • @jgage2344
      @jgage2344 Рік тому +1

      My only question is , how and why would any real god threaten his own creations???
      I can find no real reason that any real god would have a need to …

    • @Here_is_Waldo
      @Here_is_Waldo Рік тому

      @@jgage2344 Why would a god create anything in the first place? Some desire to bring about new life? Or some form of loneliness? Or just felt like being artistic? That implies the god has emotions, feelings or desires. If it can feel those things, why wouldn't it feel negatives as well? Annoyance, sadism, boredom.
      Why do people threaten their SIMs characters? Why do people go on kill-runs through Skyrim? Or write books where horrific things happen to the protagonists? A god may hurt us for no greater reason than nothing better to do, or wanting to see how we react.
      Who is to say that we aren't just an experiment, designed purely to test out some new program god calls, "Life"? Maybe we're the prototype or Alpha model Universe, just something to mess with and play with ideas before building the real version.
      God doesn't need to threaten us as creations, the sheer power gap between us would make us non-entities to such a being. To a being that could create the entire Universe, we are nothing more than amoeba in a petri dish; just waiting to be poked and prodded to see what happens.

  • @sylviaowega3839
    @sylviaowega3839 Рік тому +3

    I too much prefer the Greek gods over the monotheistic God

  • @charlesbadrock
    @charlesbadrock 7 місяців тому +1

    Stephen is 100 percent correct

    • @christopherjones6814
      @christopherjones6814 6 місяців тому

      He not correct I understand stand him but Jesus is a good person

    • @charlesbadrock
      @charlesbadrock 6 місяців тому

      @@christopherjones6814 May of been a great person but that's what he was a person like the rest of us nothing more nothing less

  • @elviejodelmar2795
    @elviejodelmar2795 Рік тому +1

    There is really only one measure of a government, society, religion, family or person: Do they promote love, kindness and justice - or hate, division and injustice. What do you see and hear around you? And, will you believe your own eyes and ears, or rely of what you're told? As a wise man said 2500 years ago;
    “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.” ― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

  • @Voicesunstoppable
    @Voicesunstoppable 3 місяці тому +2

    All his blame on God is displaced. Its humans who destroyed this world, not God.

  • @JesterPickering
    @JesterPickering 3 місяці тому +1

    Take A Moment
    Relax and enjoy a genius at play 🎉

  • @arsenic1987
    @arsenic1987 Рік тому +3

    Can you imagine, that people around him in that last speech, actually felt what he said was false?... "Being called an EVIL person by the pope, Isn't nice!"... That's what he said.. And if someone argues that it WAS nice, you seriously need to re-evaluate how you think...

  • @robertbryant3805
    @robertbryant3805 Рік тому +1

    He's bang on.

  • @bridgetmcgrath3964
    @bridgetmcgrath3964 Рік тому +1

    Great

  • @tommyvictorbuch6960
    @tommyvictorbuch6960 Рік тому +23

    If anyone deserves a knighthood, it's Stephen Fry.

    • @BobbierocksBuster1415
      @BobbierocksBuster1415 Рік тому +2

      Amen to that Tommy

    • @nathaniel2874
      @nathaniel2874 Рік тому

      @@BobbierocksBuster1415 he's going to hell

    • @BobbierocksBuster1415
      @BobbierocksBuster1415 Рік тому

      @@nathaniel2874 ain't such a place unless you mean south London

    • @nathaniel2874
      @nathaniel2874 Рік тому

      @@BobbierocksBuster1415 hell is real fool

    • @BobbierocksBuster1415
      @BobbierocksBuster1415 Рік тому

      @@nathaniel2874 so is Santa,the tooth fairy and god,one dies, gets buried,is eaten by bacteria,end of story,now go pray your false god isn't judging you

  • @JeannetteRaaphorst
    @JeannetteRaaphorst 6 місяців тому

    I love Stephen Fry..

  • @Xztjhyb7
    @Xztjhyb7 4 місяці тому +2

    I have always thought same as Fry

  • @neptune2644
    @neptune2644 5 місяців тому +2

    stephen fry being fuckin amazing as usual.

  • @aacra
    @aacra 2 місяці тому +1

    Stephen has thought about and contemplated his understanding of natural philosophy perhaps more than any other 'famous' person I know, and almost certainly more than most of his Twitterati critics. I hope that he is never bowed by the vociferous, and often downright vicious, religious people who accept their faith blindly and without asking questions.

  • @georgehegarty7277
    @georgehegarty7277 Рік тому +1

    One thing that gets me is, the church, especially in catholic county's were especially cruel to both the children and the mothers that were not married to the child's father ???? HELLO was that not also MARY AND JESUS.

  • @andrewmountford3608
    @andrewmountford3608 Рік тому

    One of This Nations Saving Graces

  • @mgmartin51
    @mgmartin51 Рік тому +1

    George Carlin: “Hey hey, fadda, why does God…”
    Priest: “Well, George, it’s a mystery “

  • @toni25681
    @toni25681 3 місяці тому +1

    "For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent." 1 Corinthians: 18-19.

    • @NormalizingAtheism
      @NormalizingAtheism  3 місяці тому

      “She lusted after her lovers whose genitalia was that of donkeys, and emissions were that of horses.” Ezekiel 23:20

    • @toni25681
      @toni25681 3 місяці тому +1

      Biblical reference to Aholah the harlot, and the abomination of her sins. Presenting a verse without it being in context is irrelevant and useless.

    • @NormalizingAtheism
      @NormalizingAtheism  3 місяці тому

      @@toni25681 I thought that’s what you did, so I was playing along…

    • @toni25681
      @toni25681 3 місяці тому +1

      No, those who know and understand scripture, use it on a contextual basis.

    • @NormalizingAtheism
      @NormalizingAtheism  3 місяці тому

      @@toni25681 that’s what I’m doing.

  • @MichaelKingsfordGray
    @MichaelKingsfordGray Рік тому +4

    Gods are imaginary.
    Beginning and End of debate.

  • @williamtaylor1136
    @williamtaylor1136 Рік тому +1

    We don't deserve Stephen Fry.
    If the Bible is to be believed, we didn't deserve Jesus either.
    Morality is morality.
    What's right is right, and what's wrong is what's wrong.
    I don't need a god or a church to differentiate between the two.

  • @r0bw00d
    @r0bw00d Рік тому +2

    My Holy Trinity are Stephen Fry, Richard Dawkins, and Carl Sagan. If I could make it a quadrinity, then I'd also have James Randi. I know, I know. You were expecting Christopher Hitchens, but I'd rather blow my brains out than listen to him being in love with the sound of his voice.

    • @williamwilson6499
      @williamwilson6499 Рік тому

      James Randi.

    • @r0bw00d
      @r0bw00d Рік тому

      @@williamwilson6499 Ah, shit. Thanks!

    • @Steve-in-the-uk
      @Steve-in-the-uk 3 місяці тому

      I would add Sean Carroll and Brian Cox to your list. Cheers

  • @Scoupe400
    @Scoupe400 2 місяці тому +1

    To extrapolate Steven’s point, assuming there was a god, only shows it/he is imperfect too, and also capable of cruelty. Really it reflects the people who conjured up his notion.
    All in all, most religions aim to control society. Policing a large collection of people. It’s clever. But full of so many holes.

  • @stealmysunshine
    @stealmysunshine Рік тому +7

    I came to the same conclusion whilst being Gnostic. I believe that the creator of the universe is in fact evil and stupid.

    • @M22986
      @M22986 Рік тому +1

      The creator(s) is/are flawed or is/are bipolar. The evil/suffering in this world is here by accident (flawed creator(s)) or on purpose (bipolar creator(s)). There is some good on this (flat) Earth, for now at least.
      Try to avoid the death-light probably(?). Publicize the South Antarctic Ice Wall and Real North Pole ASAP.

    • @Christrulesall2
      @Christrulesall2 10 місяців тому

      Jehovah aka the god of this world aka satan. He's fooled everyone. While they worship him, he's just harvesting their energy. The lord archon.

  • @kevimely7410
    @kevimely7410 Рік тому +4

    ...the invisible man in the sky that wants your money 🤣🤣🤣

  • @thorsteinelstadolsen2005
    @thorsteinelstadolsen2005 Рік тому

    amazing

  • @robertholder
    @robertholder 2 роки тому +7

    who was the first interview with?

    • @NormalizingAtheism
      @NormalizingAtheism  2 роки тому +8

      That was the late, Gay Byrne. Irish presenter and host of radio and television.

  • @crecordings
    @crecordings Місяць тому

    Religion is the biggest threat to mankind.

  • @haroldchester904
    @haroldchester904 Рік тому +2

    Fry: "What about bone cancer in children, God?" God: "You've got a point. I should have stopped evolution at the jelly fish stage."

  • @FourDozenEggs
    @FourDozenEggs 9 місяців тому +1

    This has always been my problem. If I were to believe that the Bible is true, I would be terrified because God is depicted as an amoral dirtbag with unspeakable power. The atrocities he commits in the Bible are ludicrous, and yet I'm supposed to dedicate my life to him? I'm supposed to think of him as some perfect being? Ridiculous. If the Bible were true, then I'm thinking Lucifer was onto something when he rebelled.

  • @chriswilson8062
    @chriswilson8062 Рік тому +1

    I'm not particularly religious myself but I'm always intrigued by those who are vehemently against it despite not being compelled to follow at all

    • @sidecarbod1441
      @sidecarbod1441 Рік тому

      True, that in most countries you are not compelled to follow any religion (in some you most certainly are compelled) but that is not the point, the point is that that religion actually does harm to humanity, it causes normally rational people to do irrational things. (fly planes into buildings, spread lies about condoms that then causes people to die from aids, that sort of stuff)

    • @chriswilson8062
      @chriswilson8062 Рік тому +1

      @@sidecarbod1441 I don't disagree with any of that. The manipulation of religion has been used to justify horrific acts. Undeniable but equally such acts have been committed without religion being any factor in it. It doesn't follow that without religion, such things wouldn't happen. It's humans who commit these acts.
      You also can't ignore a huge amount of good that is done in it's name. The charitable endeavours and organisations that exist and help millions of people.
      I'll defend anyone's right to call out any religion but to be so vehemently opposed just doesn't make sense to me. Same way I don't understand deeply religious people who try and preach to non religious people. Just live and let live.

  • @margo.3466
    @margo.3466 2 місяці тому +1

    Wouldn't it be fair to get to know someone (God) before slagging them off?