In Depth Interview, with God

In Depth Interview: With God

Show Title: In Depth With ...

Where: New York City

When: Sunday, October 24, 1999

Time: 1:00 p.m.

Announcer: 

Good Evening and Welcome to tonight's program In Depth With our special guest; God! This evening's program will be shown uninterrupted thanks to God who has purchased all the commercial time. Our program was filmed earlier this afternoon for tonight's special broadcast. 

Opening:

Tonight we will be asking a few questions to the Being that needs no introduction. God requested to be here this evening to answer some questions that have been bombarding Him through the prayer lines recently. The Lord said that tonight's half-hour format is quite sufficient to answer the questions He feels need addressing. Per God's request, we are in New York City's Central Park amongst man and nature. 

Interviewer:

Good Evening God, and thank you for selecting our program to use as your method of communication to the world.

God:

Response.

Interviewer:

Theologian Huston Smith has begun a revolving theory around the various religions of the world. He theorizes¹ that all religions are compared to the base of a triangle. as you climb the ranks of beliefs and teachings to a higher power, the angles of religion come closer together and finally meet at one point, which is you, God. Are You the one being for all these religions? Religions that were formulated early on and then broken off into many pieces? Christianity's God, Judaism's Yahweh, Islam's Allah, and Spirituality's Higher Power?   

God:

Response.

Interviewer:

Doctor Michael Persinger at the University of California has been conducting experiments showing a connection between electrical current stimulation when connected to the human brain and the presence of God or a higher being². Basically that the mind is an electromagnetic map to one's soul and whatever meaning or idea of "God" is what man's brain creates for itself (whether that be God, Yahweh, Allah or any spirit). Even atheists have reported "A" presence. That these are all emitted in the mind. 

Clearly You claim to be sitting before me, but are You a creation of our electrical waves when one "feels your presence" and is this how humans were made to react? Or are You really an "energy all around us?" 

God:

Response.

Station Identification: (SFX On Screen) 

Interviewer:

The Bible, Koran and the Torah, as well as other texts, are held sacred in their respective religions. One debate has arisen over the years as to whether or not these texts should be taken literally or is each text to be interpreted and used as a guide for life? Are these texts religious "T"ruths (with a capital "T") or are they man made inspirations to control societies? Moreover, does this mean we can alter these texts for our modern lifestyles? For example: the food laws in the Torah. Pork was a "filthy animal" in Egyptian times and many theologians have associated these laws with health concerns for those times. So can such laws be altered considering modern food preparations?

God:

Response.

Interviewer:

Another question that we cannot ignore amongst the more scientific of us who want to know,. And we recognize that it may be hard for the people around the world to hear, Was Darwin Right? In his theory of Evolution, Charles Darwin theorized that due to a change in the environment, the creature that was around before man had to adapt to a new environment and essentially evolving into a new species. Considering the basic evolution of basic anatomy like bacteria and the fact that cells do "adapt" to a new environment, we know this theory to be true in today's modern era. But is this a valid theory for man's presence on earth? Or did You mold man in your own image and put him in the garden of eden as told in the book of Genesis. And considering evolution, is "in your own image" what man looks like today³?

God:

Response.

Interviewer:

Much discussion is surrounding the world considering the New Year and the millennium. The Bible speaks of the apocalypse and a horrible end to the earth with plagues and specifically itemized events⁴. Others theorize that it will be man's own doing. Tell us, will humanity end itself and the end lies in our own free will, or will You ultimately decide when to bring on the apocalypse? 

God:

Response.

Interviewer:

It has been an incredible experience speaking with You and an honor. Racism, diversity, war, pain, love and economy - these are all areas left for man to decipher. As You, God, said "that the answers lie within man" and so does the answer to our existence. A close analysis of tonight's broadcast will reveal the answers to these questions and others some watching may have.

 Closing:

To our guest tonight, God, I would like You to give our closing this evening since we feel that You will say the most appropriate final words.

God:

Response.

Run Music
Run Credits

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Bibliography

1 Huston Smith, "The World's Religions." Harper, San Fransisco, 1991. Pages 386-389.
Theologian and author of "The World's Religions" theorizes that man is actually striving for one religion to suffice for the whole world. However it is man's desire to have individual followers and that explains the variety of preachers and leaders throughout our religions of the world. Smith concludes that because there is such a strong basic preaching to all religions it is overtly possible that the hundreds of religions practiced today spawn from one originally practiced faiths. Human egos and differences are what have historically caused the various splits int he churches and faiths. Several authors reference Smith and revere him as an expert in his field including Philip Novak author of "The Worlds Wisdom." Smith was contacted and asked to fill in as tonight's position as interviewer, he declined stating that it is too great an honor for him to live up to.

2 "Wired Magazine" This is Your Brain on God. November, 1999. Jack Hitt.
Doctor Michael Persinger at the University of California has been conducting experiments connecting electrodes to the human mind in certain areas of the brain. The subjects, after completing a questionnaire to show sanity (with questions like do you believe in God? Are you being followed? Do you go to church? Do you see aliens? and the like) who have been found are of a healthy mind and body claim to have had an experience with a higher power during the experiment. We interviewed Mr. Jack Hitt from Wired Magazine who translated his experience in the experiment for us. Dr. Persinger's claims do not deny a presence of God, but simplify the experience of God to an electrical transmission from the body to the brain.

3 "Charles Darwin, "The Great Minds of Western Literature." Theory of Evolution Encyclopedia Britannica. Vol. 46.
Charles Darwin theorized that man evolved essentially from ape due to a drastic change in the environment of the earth. In order to survive this creature evolved and adapted itself to continue surviving in this environment. While Darwin needed to present his theory very subtly in 1859, it is still widely debated to this day. Scientific evidence proves that cells and bacteria, the basic forms of life, do adapt to new environments especially shown when antibiotics no longer affect the bacterium. Darwin's theory essentially cancels out the teaching of Genesis and God "placing man on earth." The only area of debate is what is God's image, or is this evolution created for man's survival on earth?

4 "Holy Bible," Revelation The King James Version. Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville 1984. Pages 721-732.
Revelations claimed to be written by Saint John the Divine and gives explicit directives to look for at the end of times. False teachers and Seven Souls are some of the narratives as well as the Beast of the Sea and the New Jerusalem are clear earthly details. No timeline is given in the bible as to why or when the end will come. 

Updated: 2016 This is Your Brain on God. 

End of Interview. End of File.


Afterwards: 

This "interview" and script are complete fiction.

Have you ever been asked "when you arrive at the pearly gates, what will you Say to God?" Do you have a question that you must have answered? While these are not questions too "personal" in nature, about family or tragedy, instead they merge the Great Ideas of the World's Religion and Modern obsession with TV and answers.

In college I took an extensive amount of English and Writing Classes. While the English and Writing for Journalism developed my creative muscle skills for formal writing my creative writing classes stretched the muscle that would keep me going on in life. The mass media course here required us to interview someone.

Along side the classes to fulfill my major I was also learning about myself. I took classes on the world religions to better understand the fundamental teachings and how the belief system played out in our daily lives.

This creative writing assignment was a culmination of these classes coming together in one written form. I have been meaning to post this assignment for a few years now. But amongst the day-to-day doings of our lives, feeding and entertaining the children, I hadn't found a moment to search for the document and post it online. How interesting that I find time on New Years Day. after a tumultuous political and violent year, perhaps it brings perspective.

It is posted here, with limited revisions. I remember little of the assignment, except that it needed to be formatted for TV or Radio. And we needed to time it accordingly for the segment length.

Ironically after I posted this I referenced the link backs for the Authors listed. Huston Smith died December 30th, just 2 days ago. On the day I decided what I would be doing New Years Day, 2017. Rest in Peace. Thank you for inspiring millions to open their minds and spirits. #Irony

Originally written October 18, 1999, Creative Writing for Mass Media

Thanks for reading!! 

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