* I enjoyed Gay Byrne's quotes. I've often thought I'd made a
good interviewer as I can my bias out of things and I'm
usually aware of the places where I am biased and how that
might be perceived.
I also appreciated the clarity of Fry:
"When I issue a statement it stays issued and you*d be a
very brave person to take me on.**
A combination of the two traits can make for a very strong
individual, one who is fair and impartial but whose words
can have a strong easy staying power behind them if they
*do* issue a strong opinion.
Fry's arguments regarding God however, seemed somewhat
typically ridiculous and shortsighted. "Why would a God
create [insert bad thing]?"
Or like the questioning believer's paradox, "Why do bad
things happen to good people?"
The believer's answer is: "God's will"
The unbelievers answer is: "Randomness".
To me, same thing. No contradiction.. I don't know if it's
either God's will *or* randomness or part of a discernible
pattern.
But "it is what it is"? yeah, I can go with that. To me,
that's ultimately what "God's will" or "randomness" means
ultimately in that context.
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entirely full of shit.
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