Stephen Fry was doing an interview with a monotheist, and was asked, “if you’re wrong, and there is a god, what would you say to him?” Stephen responded, “cancer in children? How dare you!” Or, similar to DeNiro’s quote, when Hitler’s concentration camps were liberated, a quote from one of the inmates was left on the wall, “if there is a god, he will have to beg my forgiveness.”
Pretty sure that’s actually a quote from a holacaust survivor
No, lady. He said this during an interview on The Actor's Studio. I saw the interview and the interview is often quoted by other actors like Dustin Hoffman.
@Ezekieltyrus71 Lady? I’m going to pretend that wasn’t meant in an insulting way.
Here’s the quote I was thinking of:
“If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.” — A phrase that was carved on the walls of a concentration camp cell during WWII by a Jewish prisoner.
He's an atheist?
Yes.
@Ezekieltyrus71 Cool.
On the other hand, if there IS a god, WE have hell of a lot of explaining to do.
Eh. Mostly it. Humans are like children abandoned in the wild. Of course we went all Lord of the Flies. And also -- I had NOTHING to do with any of that shit my ancestors did. Nor any of the "political leaders" that I can't even remotely dictate due to corruption & the two party system and various issues with US politics failing to account for game theoretical outcomes...
I don't think we'd have any explaining to do. At all.
Wish I could remember exactly.
But the quote was somewhat -
If there was a god - They either can't stop suffering. In which case they are unworthy of worship
They can stop suffering but choose not to out of indifference - See above.
They can stop suffering but choose not to because they enjoy watching suffering. - See above
I saved this off fb before I deleted my accnt there
@CallMeDave Thank you.