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Did The Devil Make Me Do It?

Last week, ABC’s Nightline (a division of ABC News) aired a debate on the existence of the Devil. First, I should mention that last year they had a debate on the existence of God. And while both debates are absolutely ridiculous for a prestigious news organization to dignify with airtime, at least the God debate had an opposition. In that debate, the Rational Response Squad had the role of the opposition and as the voice of reason to say that the God of the Bible is a fictional character. In this more recent Nightline debate, everyone was Christian or at least theist. The debate was between hardcore fundamentalist Pastor Mark Driscoll and former hooker turn fundamentalist and totally incoherent Jesus freak Annie Lobert against former evangelical (still Christian) Bishop Carlton Pearson and self-help guru and expert on all things vague and undefined, Deepak Chopra.

Right off the bat, I think ABC News should really be ashamed of themselves for behaving like the Jerry Springer show and calling that journalism. What are they going to debate next, Leprechauns? How about the Boogieman? Maybe we can sit down and have a serious and scholarly debate about the existence of the Tooth Fairy. But that point aside, I think that if ABC News really wanted a debate, they would at least have some real opposition. I will give some props to Bishop Pearson and Deepak Chopra though because at times they actually made some good points… which they promptly backed away from before spouting out bat-shit bullshit.

Pearson actually talked about some of the ideas and facts made popular by Bart Ehrman in his book “Misquoting Jesus” and aside from his view that evil and God exist, he actually talked a bit about evolution that the Bible is a book of myths. Deepak also had a few choice moments in which he talked about evolution and the laws of physics. At one point he even schooled fundy Pastor Driscoll on Aramaic and on the translations Driscoll had. Deepak also got grilled by a fundy audience member which was pretty funny because he really let her have it… and then told her that her view of the world was just as valid as his own.

Pastor Mark Driscoll basically gave the standard Biblical BS and didn’t really have much to back it up. He seemed to think that just stating the story made it so and no one seemed to challenge him on it. Ex-hooker Annie Lobert pretty much used her ex-hooker status as a sympathy card and didn’t really have much of an argument… except with her sincere tears when her story was told of being gang-raped by people and actual demons alike. While it truly is sad that she had so many horrible experiences, those experiences aren’t an argument for a literal Satan. Not even her demon tale of sleep-paralysis.

I will give the wackier Christian side a point from the audience though. One audience member got Deepak with a trick question that he didn’t seem to understand even after everyone laughed at him. Deepak in his wish-washy way claimed that any belief is a false belief and an insecure belief. Because if someone thinks something is true, they don’t need to say that it is true. An audience member asked quoted him and asked if he “believed” that statement. Deepak took the bait and said yes. Everyone laughed but him.

No one seemed to think this was a ridiculous debate and no one claimed that good and evil are human constructs. No one was a voice of real opposition. It was really an argument of semantics. The moderator was clearly biased on the wackier side and the audience seemed to be equally biased. At least with the God-debate of last year, moderator Martin Bashir did a decent job and the audience was mixed. This debate was a farce. I am not even sure I would call it a debate. It was more like a Jesus love fest with some disagreements on the details.

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