Showing posts with label Philip Zimbarado. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philip Zimbarado. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

That's Truthiness!

Let's face it. When most people think of Sunday School teachers, they picture this:



But maybe they should be thinking something more like this:


That's right. Stephen Colbert, America's funniest man (sorry, Carrot Top) just happens to also be a Sunday School teacher. And recently he dropped some strong Biblical knowledge on his guest Philip Zimbarado during a discussion on the origins of evil.

Zimbarado, a Standford professor and author of The Lucifer Effect, said on Colbert's show: "Lucifer was right and God was wrong." An obviously miffed Colbert came back swinging with a theological rant that would make those in seminary proud.

Colbert said: "God gave Satan, the angels and man, free will. Satan used his free will-and abused it-by not obeying authority. Hell was created by Satan's disobedience to God, and his purposeful removal from God's love, which is what hell is-removing yourself from God's love. You send yourself to hell, God does not send you there."

Now that's some truthiness!

I couldn't find a clip of this exchange on the YouTubes, but here's a great one with Colbert making Larry King seem even more confused than usual.