pudge's Journal: Colbert and Zimbardo and Sunday School

Colbert guest Philip Zimbardo says God was wrong, Lucifer was right. Stephen Colbert smacks him down, and gets a big ovation from the audience.

The whole thing is interesting, but this exchange is at the end, starting at the end, with 1:00 left.

ZIMBARDO: "If God was into reconciliation, he would have said 'I made a mistake.' God created hell. Paradoxically, it was God who created Hell as a place to put Lucifer and the fallen angels, and had he not created Hell, then evil would not exist."

COLBERT: "Evil exists because of the disobedience of Satan. 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."

ZIMBARDO: "Wow."

COLBERT: "You send yourself there, God does not send you there."

ZIMBARDO: "Obviously you learned well in Sunday School."

COLBERT: "I teach Sunday School, motherf****r."

Colbert knows his Christian theology.

Cross-posted on <pudge/*>.

Interesting...

[FroMan]

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."

Well, this part is a bit fuzzy, but certainly a reasonable potential description of hell. The exact nature of hell is not described anywhere in the Bible, so you run into trouble with trying to describe it. We get a few images or hell from various passages, such as Revelation and the parable of the beggar (Laz-something or other). But I think both of those

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[pudge]

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."

Well, this part is a bit fuzzy, but certainly a reasonable potential description of hell.

I think Colbert was kinda going along with what Zimbardo said, just to get to the real point about who was to blame: the God who allowed for free will, or the individuals who wrongly exercised it.