[Apologetics] Sir Anthony Hopkins: I couldn’t be an atheist

[Dianne Dawson]

Sir Anthony Hopkins: I couldn’t be an atheist
By Huw Twiston Davies on Friday, 11 February 2011
  
Anthony Hopkins stars as an exorcist in the forthcoming film The Rite (CNS 
photo/Warner Bros.)
Sir Anthony Hopkins told the Catholic Herald this week that he “couldn’t live 
with” the certainty of being an atheist.
The actor, who was knighted in 1993, said: “Being an atheist must be like living 
in a closed cell with no windows”.
Sir Anthony said: “I’d hate to live like that, wouldn’t you? We see them, mind 
you, on television today, many brilliant people who are professional atheists 
who say they know for a fact that it’s insanity to have a God or to believe in 
religion. Well, OK, God bless them for feeling that way and I hope they’re 
happy.”
He added: “But I couldn’t live with that certainty, and I wonder about some of 
them: why are they protesting so much? How are they so sure of what is out 
there? And who am I to refute the beliefs of so many great philosophers and 
martyrs all the way down the years?”
Sir Anthony, who is most famous for playing the cannibal Hannibal Lecter in The 
Silence of the Lambs, stars as Fr Lucas in The Rite, based on the experiences of 
American exorcist Fr Gary Thomas.
 
Like a deer that longs for running waters so my soul longs for you, O God.
Ps 42:1


      
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