Do Angels and Demons Exist? | Episode 410 | Closer To Truth

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I come from a scientific sceptical background but I'm starting to accept that there is so much we don't know that it's arrogant to dismiss the honest rational testimony of people we otherwise respect who say they have seen angels.

In my mind the more potent question is: do non-physical beings exist. Asking outside religious dogma would bring a more interesting conversation imo.

The problem with skeptics is they don't seem to realize true skepticism involves being skeptical of one's own position too. If the skepticism is only applied to what one doesn't already believe in, then the skeptic nature loses any actual meaning and is transformed into a bias favoring what one already believes to be true. This makes it difficult, if not impossible, to learn or discover anything new.

Just because The Great Pumpkin hasn't shown up YET doesn't mean he won't show up this Halloween.

We are almost blind, deaf, incapable to feel and we pretend to know it all, come on! We need more humility.... One skeptic guy was taken into a room once and there he was asked if there was a bloodstain on the wall, he turn around and laughed because he could see nothing resembling any kind of corporal fluid on the wall. Then the UV light was turned on and he was able to see beyond his very limited spectrum of visible light and the blood, urine, saliva and sweat remains suddenly appeared before his very eyes. After that he was asked another question "can you imagine your life can be in danger in this 'empty' room? And he said that there was nothing in the room that could harm him. Obviously he had no idea that the room was receiving ionizong radiation from an ambulatory X ray machine that could cause cancer and DNA mutation leading to death even in the next months. Then he was shown the radiation meter and was aware of his own exposure to harmful electromagnetic radiation. Later on he was asked to describe the sounds he could hear in the room and he replied that there were none. To prove him that there were imperceptible infrasound noises below 20 Hz in the room he had to see a sound level meter to be conscious that in fact he was unable to hear the existing noises in the house. Finally he was asked to turn the radio on and to touch, see, smell, feel if possible the FM radio waves and he was proved once that his perception was so limited as to conclude that only palpable, visible, audible things exist. So it might be correct for any skeptic to say that angels, demons and God don't exist in their visible light espectrum (380-700 nm), and they don't speak to them either (in 20-20,000 Hz) and cannot cause any damage (at least in the known or perceived forms of harmful electromagnetic radiation). Whatever knowledge that is claimed beyond our perception is mere bragging. We should just remain silent about the things we cannnot even perceive.

So tough to take someone seriously when they say they "know" something exists because two people said they saw something.

Oh dear- the number of times I found myself saying “oh ffs” during this was staggering

I seriously wanted to pull out the popcorn on the first scene... "more than a hundred, but less than a trillion? Okay..." Love it.

Closer To Truth is broadcast on PBS stations. You can also watch Closer To Truth online at CloserToTruth.com or on our YouTube channel. This is Episode 10 of Season 4, first aired on PBS stations in 2009.