Morgan Freeman has played God on the big screen, but in real life he sees the Almighty as an invention of the human mind.
It might seem curious, then, for the 78-year-old actor to star in a National Geographic Channel show all about God and religion. But “The Story of God with Morgan Freeman,” which airs its season finale on Sunday, isn’t so much a celebration of God as it is an exploration of human beings’ unending search for the divine, Freeman says.
“An interesting phenomenon of human existence is that we cannot accept that we are here without oversight,” the actor said in a recent interview with The Huffington Post.
In the season finale of the show, Freeman shares a sobering story from his life to demonstrate. When he was just 16 years old, he says, he came down with pneumonia, and an abscess developed on his lungs. One day, the abscess burst and he nearly died.
“Some say God saved me,” Freeman says in the episode, with a mysterious twinkle in his eyes.
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