British Actor Eddie Redmayne, who played Professor Stephen Hawking in the Oscar-winning biopic The Theory of Everything, attended Hawking’s funeral on Saturday in the university town of Cambridge, England.
The Academy Award-winning actor spoke at the service, which was held at University Church of St. Mary the Great, and even read a passage from the Bible.
“The chosen text was taken from Ecclesiastes 3:1-11.
1 To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven:
2 A time to be born, And a time to die; A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted;
3 A time to kill, And a time to heal; A time to break down, And a time to build up;
4 A time to weep, And a time to laugh; A time to mourn, And a time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones, And a time to gather stones; A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to gain, And a time to lose; A time to keep, And a time to throw away;
7 A time to tear, And a time to sew; A time to keep silence, And a time to speak;
8 A time to love, And a time to hate; A time of war, And a time of peace.
9 What profit has the worker from that in which he labors?
10 I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied.
11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.” Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 NKJV
Written by: WILL MAULE/FAITHWIRE
Feature image: Actor Eddie Redmayne poses with Stephen Hawking as they arrive at the U.K. premiere of the film “The Theory of Everything,” which is based around Stephen Hawking’s life, at a cinema in central London, Dec. 9, 2014. (REUTERS/Andrew Winning)
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It boggles my mind that an atheist was given a church funeral in the first place. A case of the dead burying the dead?