Stephen Fry risks a huge fine, after his comments on God went viral – VIRAL VIDEO
Stephen Fry’s comments about God put him at the center of a police investigation. The Irish police investigated the actor and author over blasphemy claims, after his comments went viral. The English comedian now faces a huge fine for the offences to the hypothetical creator.
Stephen Fry, who was present more than two years ago on RTE’s The Meaning of Life, described a hypothetical creator as “stupid” and an “utter maniac” for designing a world filled with undue suffering, The Independent reports.
In 2015, the programme’s host, Gay Byrne, asked Stephen Fry what he would say to God if he arrived at the gates of heaven. „I’d say, bone cancer in children? What’s that about?,” Fry replied.
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Moreover, the committed atheist added: „How dare you? How dare you create a world to which there is such misery that is not our fault? It’s not right, it’s utterly, utterly evil.”
“Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain?”
“We have to spend our life on our knees thanking him? What kind of god would do that?”
“The god who created this universe, if it was created by god, is quite clearly a maniac, an utter maniac, totally selfish.”
The comments were originally reported to police in 2015, according to the Irish Independent. Although the paper quoted a source as saying a prosecution was unlikely, under Ireland’s 2009 Defamation Act, anyone “who publishes or utters blasphemous matter shall be guilty of an offence” and liable to a fine of up to €25,000 (£21,200).
The person who made the complaining wished to remain anonymous, but he explained to the Irish Independent that it had been his “civic duty” to report the comments which he alleges were in breach of the Defamation Act.
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A spokesman for the English comedian told the Daily Telegraph there was “nothing for us to say while this is under investigation”.
Stephen Fry’s interview has now been viewed more than seven million times on YouTube.
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