Loading ...Hookers for Jesus to debate UU on Nightline
flockwoodThe tabloidization of television news continues. The Seattle Times reports that the leader of Hookers for Jesus will debate Unitarian-Universalist (and former Pentecostal preacher) Carlton Pearson on Nightline later this month. The topic: Is Satan real?
Pearson will argue against the existence of a literal Satan. The Hookers for Jesus leader will argue that Satan is real. Also joining in the debate: a Seattle megachurch pastor and self-help guru Deepak Chopra.
Why in the world was this group tapped for the debate? “We went for the most interesting voices we could find,” a Nightline producer explained.
March 19th, 2009 at 11:29 am
I suppose the fact that no mainstream Christian theologians were tapped for this little intellectual exchange shows that, to the popular media anyway, what we have to say is not very interesting.
March 21st, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Tabloidization is the key here. It’s pure entertainment for the masses, and pointless to cast your perls before swine. How can you carry coherent polemic with someone who doesn’t even speak the same language?
March 31st, 2009 at 8:05 am
Speaking of the tabloidization of public media:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDbh8aQ7fLc&feature=related