Opus 2025-210: Package Deal

I recently watched about the first 15 or 20 minutes of an interview of Stephen Fry on a podcast called Trigonometry, or something like that.  To be honest, I knew nothing about Stephen Fry as I began responding.  At the beginning of the interview I was going to look into who he was because he seem to be saying some rational things.  As the interview went on, he started to morph into just another garden variety woke person from the left.

The breakdown began innocently enough.  He projected an interview he done years ago in which he was asked what he would say to God if he saw Him.  Fry claims to be an atheist.  I have no reason to doubt that.  His answer clarified it.  After a few vulgar obscenities addressed towards God, he asked him, “Who do you think you are?”  He went on to talk about children dying of bone cancer and so forth and asked how God could allow such things to happen.  OK . I see his point.  If he stopped there, I might’ve continued listening.  But he didn’t stop there.

Through ensuing moments he walked down a scripted list of issues under the guise of being in favor of freedom of speech.  It wasn’t really about free speech.  It was about rejecting all the moral standards of Western civilization.  He started listing exceptions to free speech that he thought should be in place.  He started of course with making disparaging jokes about people of other races.  I guess he’s never heard a good Polak joke.  Too bad.  From there he went to people of other religions.  OK, the flag goes up.  Obviously he doesn’t want anybody criticizing the Muslims and their violence and mayhem.  Next he jumped to how language that was negative towards trans people should be banned.  And he continued on from there.  Be assured this was not someone with old fashion liberal views about freedom who have been exiled from his party.  It was simply another closet left winger following the party line.

I can accept rational differences.  I too have struggled with the problem of evil.  Bone cancer in children would be on the list, except for the fact that it is part of life in the world as we know it.  The problem of evil has been struggled with for years.  Part of the answer to that is the issue of free will, and the honest realization that you cannot have free will unless there are real choices that can be made.  Real choices end up in consequences.  There are billions of people in the world today making free choices.  There’s no way that a real choice could end up with no one suffering.

The statement by Fry about suffering children got my attention.  It focused my thinking.  It made me once again consider how the God of the Bible is far beyond my understanding.  What I can understand I wrestle with, and move forward.  It forces me to look into depths that I would prefer to ignore.  Ultimately, I come to the understanding that evil is not sickness in children, that is a by-product of evil.  Evil is much more an attitude that justifies all kinds of destructive behavior, such as mutilating children to change their sex.

I thank Stephen Fry for his input.  I’m not sure how much effort I’m going to invest trying to understanding who he is or what he said in the past.

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