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Angry with God

Stephen Fry’s recent angry outburst about God has been circulating on social media.

Defending our faith Chris Sinkinson
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Stephen Fry | photo: Wikimedia (Brian Minkoff – London Pixels)

It occurred during an exchange on an Irish public TV programme, ‘The Meaning of Life’. Asked to explain his unbelief, Fry described God as an ‘evil, capricious, monstrous maniac’. Given bone cancer in children, how can we have any respect for a sovereign, creator God? ‘How dare you create a world in which there is such misery?’ Fry indignantly asked. How could such a God expect us to worship him?