Stephen Fry quotations and quotes on God & Creationism









given the existence of suffering through disease and the activity of parasites that seems inconsistent with what are popularly supposed to be the attributes of an all-powerful and charitable God,

Stephen Fry on Creationism ~

THAT Youtube clip from Irish TV

A number of variously interesting, amusing, perceptive and provocative quotations and quotes from Stephen Fry about Gods, Religions, Faith and Religious Beliefs are featured on this page.This presentation includes a recent, January 2015, Youtube clip of an interview for Irish television where Stephen Fry actually uses such terms as "utter maniac" and "totally selfish" in relation to God. In particular,Stephen Fry expresses potent criticisms towards a "monstrous, utterly monstrous", Creationism.These comments were made during the recording of an interview that was intended to appear on an Irish TV series, 'The Meaning of Life', where interviewees were invited, by an enduringly popular pillar of Irish broadcasting named Gay Byrne, to share their views and opinions.A brief selection of other comments attributable to Stephen Fry and related to God, Religion, and Belief, are then considered.The following clip was actually uploaded to Youtube by Irish television broadcaster RTÉ prior to screening of an episode of this, 'The Meaning of Life', TV series where Stephen Fry guested, and drew more than two million on-line viewings over two or three days before the actual Irish TV broadcast on Sunday 1 February 2015.This footage features Stephen Fry airing certain views on God and Creationism and gave rise to a notable storm of controversy.

A transcription and some noteworthy post-interview further comments from Stephen Fry and Gay Byrne in the immediate aftermath, (for want of a better word), of the first broadcast on Irish TV of the full episode are available by following a link that appears just after the Youtube clip.

Transcription of this Irish TV interview clip

with key further comments from Stephen Fry and Gay Byrne





More from Stephen Fry on God, Religion, Faith and Belief







The Blasphemy Debate with Christopher Hitchens.On the Guardian website ~ Hay Festival pages(A distinctly possible side-swipe here in the then Archbishop of Canterbury being bearded and bespectacled).The Blasphemy Debate with Christopher Hitchens.On the Guardian website ~ Hay Festival pages



Is Human Being more truly Metaphysical than Physical?























Some Human Mysteries?





World Religions Spirituality Quotations

"Trefusis Blasphemes" radio broadcast"The Importance of Unbelief".Interview on bigthink.com - recorded December 8, 2009The following image is sourced from a humanistic presentation on The Meaning of Life by Stephen Fry"Some people think ... that the universe was created for a purpose and that human beings were part of some larger cosmic plan. They think our meaning comes from being part of this plan, and is written into the universe, waiting to be discovered.""The humanist view of the meaning of life is different. Humanists do not see that there is any obvious purpose to the universe, but that it is a natural phenomenon with no design behind it. Meaning is not something out there, waiting to be discovered, but something we create in our own lives.""And although this vast and incredibly old universe was not created for us, all of us are connected to something bigger than ourselves, whether it is family and community, a tradition stretching in the past, an idea or cause looking forward to the future, or the beautiful natural world on which we were born and our species evolved."All sourced from a humanistic presentation on The Meaning of Life by Stephen FryBritish Humanist AssociationStephen Fry has presented a very popular "Quite Interesting" BBC show for many yearsStephen Fry quoting Wittgenstein during a Room 101 TV programWe at age-of-the-sage hope that our visitors will find this "insight?" to be, potentially,Interesting:-There is close agreement between several major World Faiths, Plato, Socrates, Shakespeare and Ralph Waldo Emerson in suggesting that Human Wisdom / Spirituality is relative to Human Desire / Materialism and to Human Wrath / (linkable with Ethnicity and group membership?).Modern Psychological science seems to agree with these more philosophical and intuitive authorities!!! An acceptance has existed over several centuries, whereby such luminaries as Leibniz and Aldous Huxley have subscribed to a so-called, "Perennial Philosophy", of core insights that are accepted by ALL the major Faith Traditions.It may be that extensive researches undertaken by ourselves at age-of-the-sage can be seen as lending very persuasive support to acceptance of the existence of such a "Perennial Philosophy" actually exists!