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Matt Slick on The Daily Show, June 17, 2013 | Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry
Monday, June 17 2013, 10:26 PM

Matt Slick on The Daily Show, June 17, 2013

by Matt Slick About three weeks ago I was contacted by the Daily Show. It is a national TV program on the Comedy Central Network. They sometimes do more serious issues and it was in this light that they contacted me and asked if they could interview me regarding homosexuality and anti-Christian bias in the media. I told them that I was not interested in being promoted as a wacko who they could mock. They assured me that that was not their intent. I ended up talking to the producer, Miles (an atheist) and told him that I didn't need any help making myself look like a fool because I was pretty good at that on my own. He assured me that their intent was not to mock, but that they were actually concerned about this issue. So, after talking to my pastor and a few friends, I decided to go ahead and do it. I figured that if I can give competent, biblically based, answers, then that would be okay. Also, I figured that at the very least it would be exposure for CARM. So, I decided to do it and I went to New York on Tuesday and flew back on Wednesday. Check your local listings for exact time and channel. They scheduled me for one and a half hours of interviewing. I never met the host of the show Jon Stewart. Instead, I spent three hours with Samantha Bee. Why three hours instead of one and a half? I think it was because maybe they couldn't get out of me what they were hoping. So, for about three hours I fielded questions and tried to give compassionate, intelligent, and biblical answers. Over all, they were quite nice. Samantha, of course, was very liberal and her anti-Christian bias became quite evident (offense meant, Sam). For example, consider the following representative dialogue. She asked me if I felt persecuted as a Christian. I told her that I did to some extent in that there was a general anti-Christian feeling in our culture and especially in the media. Homosexuals are portrayed very favorably and Christians are almost always portrayed negatively. She asked me how I would like things to be different. I told her that I just want Christians to be fairly represented in the media and not misrepresented and attacked all the time so they can freely say what they want to say without being ridiculed and mocked, the same as anyone else. She then came back and said (and I paraphrase) "So, you want to be able to tell homosexuals they are going to hell." I replied with (and I paraphrase again), "No, that's not it. We want to be able to tell people, homosexuals, anybody, everybody, that they need Jesus in order to escape the judgment of God. All sinners need to find Christ." I told her that it wasn't that we wanted to focus on homosexuals. Instead, we have a message that all people need to hear, homosexuals, adulterers, liars, thieves, moms, dads, etc., anybody and everybody myself included. I was quite clear in this message but more than once in the interview she would repeat that I wanted to be able to freely tell homosexuals that they are going to hell. I remember once specifically telling her that she had misrepresented me again (we were both polite in our exchange) and that I was not saying what she said I was saying. I was calm, compassionate, and I did my
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best to represent Christ properly. Now, I have to tell you that about 95% of the time I think I did very well. However, when you're speaking slowly, thinking about what you have to say and how to say it, concerned about how they might misuse something and take it out of context, etc., it means that you're going to occasionally say something that is not exactly right. It is easy to misspeak and that happened a few times. So, I wonder which parts of the conversations they are going to use? Are they going to make fun of me? Of course they are. I'm not worried about that. But I do hope that the gospel message gets out there because during the taping several times I told them that we want all people to find salvation in Jesus Christ, who is God in flesh, who died on the cross, and rose from the dead and that if you want to have your sins forgiven you need to trust in what Christ did. If that gets on the air, then I will consider the whole thing a great success. Finally, after the taping we went outside (I was in a suit and tie) and we walked the New York streets where we did little bits of how Christians are persecuted (the comedy part of the show). I played along with their filming and, hopefully, it'll come across okay on TV - if they show it. Again, I got to preach the gospel to them on camera several times and I did it in such a way that it could easily be woven into the interview. So, I hope that at the very least they allow that part to be aired. So, let's pray and see what happens.

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