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Do you think he'll discuss the nature of his belief during the program?


He said this in a 2012 interview about his religious beliefs:

"It's a hard question because as I said at the start, I think we invented God. So if I believe in God, and I do, it's because I think I'm God."

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Morgan Freeman is an atheist, which makes me wonder why he's narrating a series about God.

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Actually, I think he said he's agnostic, which makes perfect sense if he's narrating a series about God.

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he's not atheist

he has answered that in several interviews in differing ways but he has never been an atheist, he questions things of course. But he's literally said "no, im not an atheist"

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It doesnt matter what belief he has as long as he stays neutral.

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Evan Almighty got this delusional fools head.

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Morgan is definitely not an atheist, and could be called an agnostic. In an interview with Craig Ferguson, I remember Morgan saying that, "It's complicated", but, "I definitely believe in something greater than us, a creator of sorts". From what I know of him, it's very likely that Spinoza's God is the closest description of Morgan's belief. He believes in something greater than us, but likely not fully understandable by us, which could be described as agnostic. It is also telling in the first episode of this series where Morgan says to the diver who returned from death, that his personal home library is filled with books of all faiths, just as the divers library was. To Spinoza, a wise eye (Mind's eye that is.), could see an obscured reflection of God in basically anything and everything. Einstein also described his belief of God as Spinoza like.


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