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Essentially, Colbert lays the theological smackdown on Dr. Zimbardo, author of the Lucifer Effect. Incidentally, Dr. Zimbardo looks a whole lot like the Evil One with that crazy van dyke he's sporting.
The video is a classic example of how academics should not base their arguments on phenomena outside their knowledge base. Zimbardo (at least in the edited version of this clip) tries to base his argument on the mythology of Lucifer, but completely distorts the theological underpinnings of the Fall of the Angels.
While Colbert at first plays the absurd conformist, he sets the evil-genius Zimbardo straight on Catholic theology of evil. (He does have a bit of a potty mouth in the end...)
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