Stephen Fry: A force for good ... or not

This interview was also about a thousand kinds of awesome:

I send this clip.

Can you imagine what else Stephen would have said if he had the chance?

But seriously, it was too bad. Some newspapers would've had to print what he had to say. <Gasp>

...at the heart of their vast fortunes and great power, now want to be looked upon as benevolent and caring.

IT. IS. NOT. THAT. EASY.

It's like recovery. First, you admit there was a problem and acknowledge your evil deeds and actions that have harmed others. And then you begin to make right by actively seeking out those you have wronged... NOT glossing over your actions and behaviors, OWNING THEM, apologizing for them, and then making every effort to right those wrongs.

When the organization in question can't even admit they did wrong and still treat women and lgbt people like second class citizens it's hard to take them seriously when they claim to be the world's moral compass. Make that impossible. It's impossible to take them seriously.

One of the reasons I'm an atheist is the impossibility (for me) of believing in the words of Jesus enough to actually act on them (I realize Xianity isn't the only alternative to atheism, but it's how I was brought up). To follow Jesus, we must do exactly what Stephen Fry says the Pope could do to rehabilitate catholicism, and I'm not willing to sell everything I own and give the money to the poor. This is one of the central messages of Jesus, and one people who like to call themselves Christians to a man/woman fail to follow.