Suffering is an intrinsic part of the human condition and inseparable from life overall.
If you believe in a god, you need to accept or conceive of a context in which god actually allows suffering.
Or even promises it as a part of participating in the universe.
I don't even think what he said was all that off brand or hypocritical either.
Seems like a solid comment rooted firmly in an insightful understanding of his ancestry.
He really had his time in the sun in the 2000s with his atheism crusade.
He's a great scientist and intellectual but something about him these days just makes his presence in the public eye redundant.
People seem to have moved on from the whole "religion sucks" phase of his heyday. Bigger...