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1. Freeman is rather cagey about his position.
Mon Mar 18, 2024, 01:20 AM
Mar 2024

When commenting on the series he narrated called "The Story of God" he said:

“When it comes to a person’s religious beliefs, this is existence itself. I respect that and accept that,” Freeman says. “I don’t judge because nobody is wrong. That one word covers it all: faith.

“I’ve literally been around the world talking to an enormous number of different peoples with different faiths. And the one lesson that I come away from that with is that whatever I believe, I believe. Whatever you believe, I cannot say you’re wrong in it. You cannot say I’m wrong in my belief. My belief is my belief. Your belief is your belief. We’re all entitled to it and we’re all correct.”

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There’s one question that makes Freeman ponder more than others. In regards to Voltaire’s statement that “if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him,” Freeman pauses for a few moments and with a puzzled look rhetorically asks the question a different way.

“Do you know why there is a God? Why God is here? Why there is such an entity? It’s a guarantee. You don’t have to worry about dying. That’s it in a nutshell,” Freeman says.

https://www.fosters.com/story/entertainment/2019/03/05/morgan-freeman-has-deep-faith-in-the-story-of-god/53202491007/

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