Steven Colbert and the Theology of SIN....

JOhn P. over at his blog VITA BREVIS tuned me on this little nugget of contra-pseudo-goodness. He writes that Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central's Colbert report is "maybe" a believer of the Catholic trad-i-tion and further a Sunday school teacher. Not sure about that but his interview with Bart Ehrman was classic. Ehrman is the University of North Carolina prof. of Theology and Church History, and author of "Miss-quoting Jesus". If you have not seen it you must, at one point Colbert states, "agnostics are people who do not have the balls to be atheists!" Ehrman is a professing agnostic. You can find the video at here. Anyway John tell us about this most resent and entertaining Colbert moment. John P. writes:

On Monday's Colbert Report, Stephen interviewed Philip Zimbardo (professor at Stanford, and author of The Lucifer Effect). Zimbardo's book discusses how "good people turn bad," using the story of Satan as its archetype. Clearly, Zimbardo isn't given ample time to explain his argument...but, essentially, he asserts that good people turn bad by assenting to an unjust authority. Unfortunately, he then goes on to make some rather flimsy theological claims about God being the source of all evil in the world.

The real highlight of the interview, however, is when Colbert deconstructs Zimbardo's claims with an impassioned defense of a more traditional Christian approach to Satan and the origin of evil. Zimbardo replies to Colbert by saying "You were taught well in Sunday School, Stephen." To which Colbert replies, "I TEACH Sunday School, mother-f*&@$!"

If you want to watch it Go Here - Colbert is like a good wine, it is only best experienced and not talked about.