‘I Sure Don’t Want to Go to Hell’: Is Ted Turner’s Outspoken Agnosticism Opening a Bit to Faith?
Billionaire icon and famously outspoken agnostic Ted Turner discusses many topics in a lengthy feature by CNN writer Ann O’Neill, not the least of which is perhaps an evolving spirituality.
Turner admittedly has been openly antagonistic toward religion, Christianity in particular, perhaps due to growing up with it and even dreaming in his youth of being a missionary, CNN noted.
But his little sister, Mary Jean, suffered from a rare form of lupus and endured complications that left her with brain damage and screaming in pain for five years until she died.
“She was sick for five years before she passed away. And it just seemed so unfair, because she hadn’t done anything wrong,” he told CNN. “What had she done wrong? And I couldn’t get any answers. Christianity couldn’t give me any answers to that. So my faith got shaken somewhat.”...