He said he was asked by the garda if he had been personally offended by the programme and if he wished to include this in the written statement. This written statement mentioned both Fry and RTÉ specifically.” “The garda then took a formal written statement from me in which I quoted Fry’s comments in detail. “I told the garda I wanted to report Fry for uttering blasphemy and RTÉ for publishing/broadcasting it and that I believed these were criminal offences under the Defamation Act 2009. What kind of god would do that?”Ī clip of the interview on YouTube has been viewed more than seven million times.Ī member of the public, who asked not to be identified, said he made the complaint against Fry more than two years ago at Ennis garda station in County Clare. We have to spend our lives on our knees thanking him. “Because the god who created this universe, if it was created by God, is quite clearly a maniac, an utter maniac, totally selfish.

Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world which is so full of injustice and pain?”įry said if he met the Greek gods he would accept them quicker because, “they didn’t present themselves as being all seeing, all wise, all beneficent”. “I’d say ‘Bone cancer in children, what’s that about?’ How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault,” Fry replied. While being interviewed on The Meaning of Life TV programme, Fry was asked what he would say to God if he had a chance.

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