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Movie theatres...

I've always loved them.

But I wasn't recognized as a
movie actor until the age of 50.

My breakout role
was as 'Fast Black',

the pimp in the movie,
Street Smart.

And I'll never forget

how I won the role.

I had seen a pimp
chastising a woman

on the streets of New York

one night, so at the audition...

I tried to channel the
darkness I saw in him.

As the scene crescendoed,

I leapt across the table and

pretended to hold a knife to the
face of the casting director.

Well, for a split second I,

I know she thought
that I embodied evil.

I felt the power too.

Religions around
the globe have given

many names to our
darker impulses...

Iblis, Ravana, Satan.

I want to know

why people believe in him;

what purpose he serves.

Who is the Devil?

I'm going on a quest.

To learn about the
Devil in all his forms.

I'll visit the desert

where it is said
Satan tempted Jesus.

That is what it's all about.

Having a constant
battle, with the Devil,

like Jesus...

I'll see how Buddhist monks
purge themselves of evil.

What you're saying is, 'You
just have to control yourself.'

The worse enemies
are within yourself.

I'll meet a man who fought
battles with demons.

I said, 'I cast
you out foul spirit'

and my body went berserk.

And I'll see how
other traditions

celebrate evil's defeat.

On the tenth day,
we congregate as a family

celebrating the God's
victory over, over the demons.

My journey begins where the
Christian story of Satan begins...

In the Judean desert,

outside the ancient
city of Jericho.

I've come to a 5th
century monastery

that stands as a monument
to an epic spiritual battle.

I'm meeting Yisca Hirani,

an expert in Christian
history in the holy land.

Well now.

This is the church
of Saint Gerasimos.

Saint Gerasimos.

Yes, and he's
lived here, died here,

and he was a prime example

of a Monk, going to the desert,

fighting the Devil.

St. Gerasimus came to
this to the harsh desert

to prove to God he
was strong enough

to resist the
devil's temptations.

Gerasimus was inspired
by a tradition

that started
centuries before him.

This specific desert,

posed the devilish battle

to people before his time.

Before Saint Gerasimos,

it was Moses in the desert,

it was Elijah,

John the Baptist,

Jesus.

You can see uh, a depiction
of Jesus being tempted.

As is recorded in three
Gospels, in the New Testament.

According to the Bible,

Jesus came to the
Judean desert to fast

for 40 days and 40 nights.

As his hunger and
exhaustion peaked,

the Devil revealed himself.

The Devil says to Jesus,

'You have the ability, command
the stones to become bread'.

Now, it's easy for Jesus to do,

but he says,
'No...

I'm not the creator. Only
God is the creator.'

This has deeper meaning,
than just, eat or don't eat...

He's offered to be like God...

And he says no.

The monks living here today,

put themselves through the
same temptation Jesus faced.

As their own test of faith,

they venture out to
the nearby caves and

fast for five days a week.

Why fasting?

Fasting is getting yourself
to a point of crisis.

Just getting yourself
to a point of crisis?

Yes, because
when people are in crisis,

that's when they're
really dangerous.

If, their belly's
full, if they're happy,

then they are not dangerous.

But when you're weak and hungry.

You will do many bad things.

There is this Monk that
came from far away.

And he writes a diary,

and he writes how
difficult it is,

he says,'I'm here
in my little cell,

and when I look
through the window

to see if the sun
has already passed,

then I know,
that I am in despair,

then I know that
I am not strong,

'if I look out the window,
it means that I am weak.'

So, he is very, very openly

confesses the difficulty of
being just with yourself.

So where is the Devil?

Inside you.

There is such
a thing as 'human'.

It's human to eat,

it's human to drink,

it's human to want...

You know what I'm doing I'm
playing Devil's advocate here.

Well that is
what it's all about.

Having a constant battle

with the Devil,

like Jesus,

but not for 40 days,

for the entire
course of my life.

Just as Jesus resisted
the temptation

to use divine power to
turn rock in to bread,

the monks resist the temptation

to walk away from this
lonely desert outpost.

Some of them paid
the ultimate price.

These are the Martyrs.

Martyrs?

Martyrs,

because uh back in
the seventh century

there was an
invasion of Persians

who were coming with a different
religion, a different agenda.

This was an opportunity
for the Monks

to show that they're not tempted

to
change their religion.

They are not tempted

to uh run away

but rather they prefer
to be like Jesus,

so they've decided

that death in that
case with faith

is better than
life with no faith.

In this world,

they fought the devil,

and so in the afterlife,

they will get the
reward for that.

The desert is a place of
schizophrenic, existence.

It is either purity or impurity.

It is either, God
divinity or the Devil.

Most Christians try their best
to steer clear of the devil,

but, for the monks

who endure this remote
desert monastery,

he's an opponent
they willingly face.

Their only weapon of defence,

their faith.

Some Christians spend
their entire lives

locked in battle with the devil.

But for Buddhists,

there exists an alternative...

I'm in Kathmandu in Nepal
to witness an ancient ritual

that aims to win the
devil over to our side.

Here at the Ka-Nying
Shedrub Ling Monastery,

I'm meeting Chokyi
Nyima Rinpoche.

A Buddhist Master, and an
old acquaintance of mine,

whom I first met at the
sacred Bodhi Tree in India.

From today you are my friend.

Hello...

Rinpoche...

my friend.

How are you?

How are you?

I am,

I am very well.

Nice to see you again.

I miss you.

You miss me?
I miss you.

You don't look any different.

-No?
-No.

You must come. Come.

Right.

Welcome to Gumba.

Thank you.

I have arrived in
time to witness

the Rinpoche lead a
special prayer ceremony...

A 'puja', as it's called.

Its purpose?

To cleanse the
temple, and the monks,

of evil spirits.

The monks believe
their chanting,

the horns,

the drums,

and the smoke

will purge malevolent forces.

But the monks also
make offerings of tea,

and even beer to
the evil entities.

Which seems like
it might not purge

the monastery of evil,

but instead invite it in!

In a monastery in Kathmandu,

my old friend Chokyi Nyima
is leading his monks

in a ceremony to
control evil spirits.

The puja lasts
more than an hour.

It leaves me with
questions about

how Buddhists understand
and deal with evil spirits.

So I ask Chokyi Rinpoche to
sit down with me and explain.

His long-time student,
Catherine Dalton,

has offered to translate for us.

The Puja.

What is the purpose of it?

We humans have a physical form,

but there are also beings
that lack a physical form.

There are evil spirits

and if we want to
pacify those kind of

evil influences and spirits,

the best way to do that is...

We use a meditation
practice in the Puja;

we actually invite them, those
kind of spirits, uh, to come...

You don't isolate bad guys.

No, of course not.

You, you say,
'Hey, come here.'

Yes, to help. Yes.

'Cause I know in the Christian,

uh, belief, it's
just like, 'Satan,

you get away.
Go get behind me.'

A different, different belief.

And you're saying, 'No, no, no, come here.
We can talk.'

Yeah.

The concept of
evil spirits are...

things you have to battle.

We can talk about evil
forces or negative beings,

but what that means,
actually is just that

anyone who has come
under the influence

of ignorance behaves
in negative ways.

We could say that primarily,

they, uh, enemy or
negativity is something

that we find within ourselves.

As they are chanting and
meditating in the puja,

the monks visualize inviting the
evil spirits into their monastery.

Since these spirits are negative
aspects of their own minds,

their job now is to work to
convince them to become good.

They do this by
making offerings.

I noticed that there
was a young man,

who would stand
presenting the chalice.

Yes.

And he'd go and throw it out.

It was beer.

And then, comes back,
and he has hot tea.

Can we talk about that?

Yes, yes, yes.

Some of them suffer a lot
because they're hungry, thirsty;

we will bless to
the beer and black teas,

and let them enjoy that.

But, you don't drink beer?

No, no.

-Monks don't drink beer.
-No, we give it to others.

Using different
substances, using Mantras.

Doing meditation practice.

When all of those
things come together,

it becomes possible
to tame those kind of

otherwise wild and
incorrigible spirits

to tame their minds.

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

Wait, you're saying
that bad guys...

Become, yes,

became...

good, yeah.

Through meditation,
chanting and offerings,

the monks work to
turn evil spirits good.

The spirits that come around
are known as Dharma Protectors.

And the monks visualize them

driving away any remaining
negative influences.

Buddhists mention the worst
enemies are within yourself,

not outside.

What you're saying is, you
just have to control yourself.

Yes, yes.

Get a grip on you,

and you can change these
thoughts and feelings and

temptations personal inside.

Right?

Yes, uh, definitely, the Buddha,
himself, even taught that, um,

you are your own enemy, and
you're your own protector.

Do you remember the day?

Yeah, but still, you're giving?

Yeah, I'm giving now to you.

Oh, so sweet.

No, it's, it's, it's, may I?

So sweet.

Oh, before I give you,
now you give to me.

I had no idea that I would
have the opportunity...

To be in your presence
again in life.

-I love you.
-So...

thank you, I love you.

Thank you so much.

For Christians,

the devil is an evil spirit that
must be expelled from our minds,

you know,

'Get thee behind me, Satan.'

But these Buddhist monks,

they accept that we're
all susceptible to...

evil thoughts and impulses.

So, they don't chase
evil spirits away.

They work to transform
them into protectors.

So, you see the devil doesn't
need to get behind you,

he just needs to be
coaxed into becoming

someone you don't
mind having alongside you.

Novel, isn't it?

For more than two
millennia of Buddhist history,

the battle with evil has been
seen as an internal struggle.

As Christianity grew in
the centuries after Jesus,

the Devil solidified as an
external foe...

And took familiar
supernatural form.

How did this
transformation happen?

Andrew McGowan,

a Christian scholar
of Anglican Priest,

has come to the Broumov
Monastery in the Czech Republic

to see first-hand,
one of the earliest

and most famous
images of the devil.

He's been invited by the
historian Erika Harlitz-Kern,

who studies how the devil changed
as Christianity developed.

Wow.

Well, this is extraordinary.

This is the Codex Gigas.

Codex Giga is
Latin for Big Book.

It's 36 inches tall,
20 inches wide,

8.7 inches thick,

and it weighs 165 pounds.

The Codex Gigas
has a second name,

The Devil's Bible.

Legend has it that,
in the 13th century,

a monk named 'Herman
the Recluse',

was sentenced to death for
breaking his monastic vows.

To avoid this fate,

he offered to glorify
the monastery forever

by creating a single book
containing all of mankind's knowledge

and write it in one day.

Near midnight,

unable to complete his task,

he called on the only person
he thought could help.

The devil.

The devil offered to help
Herman finish the book...

but took his soul in return.

To seal the deal,

Herman included a portrait

of his benefactor.

Ah!

This is such an
extraordinary image isn't it?

It's, it's really quite fearsome
or repulsive even I think.

Yes and he's looking
straight at you as if he's,

if he's trying to
jump out of the page.

We have the horns,

we have the talons,

the green face

and he has, what appears
to be, two tongues.

He is meant to be frightening.

What makes this image unique,

is the Devil is
wearing a loincloth

and the red spots that we
see on it, are ermine tails

and ermine tails, in the Middle
Ages, was a sign of royalty.

Kings wore ermine tails.

So, what this image
is telling us,

is that this is the
Prince of darkness.

He is the Lord of the underworld

and is of royal lineage and
he has royal power.

What does this book have to

tell us about the way in
which the Devil is understood?

During the Middle Ages,
the Catholic church

comes into its own as a
political institution.

As Christianity spreads,

the church is changing the
interpretation of the Devil,

to teach its flock

about sin and they're playing
on the fear of the afterlife,

of what can happen to you if
you do not live a virtuous life.

It's almost as if it's like an
advertising billboard, a warning sign.

This is where you could
end up if your behaviour,

or your lack of faith puts
you in the wrong place.

This is like church
propaganda in the Middle Ages.

The horns, the talons...

taking physical form makes
the devil more tenacious.

A creature lurking
in the shadows,

capable of grabbing us,
and refusing to let go.

And for some tortured souls,

there's only one way
to expel the devil:

exorcism!

We've all seen someone behaving
oddly on the street, right?

Yelling, screaming what
seems like nonsense.

Most of us never think
of demonic possession.

We imagine it's a
mental health issue.

But the Vatican,

has a team of sanctioned
disciples who see

demons at work in
every part of society.

They are exorcists

and every day,

they go into combat
against the Devil.

Father Don Aldo Buonaiuto

is one the Vatican's
leading exorcists.

I know all about exorcism.

I mean, I saw the movie.

So, I know that, uh, if the
Devil resides in the person,

the room that that
person is in turns cold

and that person can turn
his head around 360 degrees.

How close am I?

Some people think of exorcism
as something superstitious.

But exorcism is most
of all a prayer.

It's a prayer towards
the soul of the person

that is asking for help
when its possessed.

How does one...

proceed with an exorcism?

There is a doctor and a
psychiatrist and him...

For the Catholic
Church, only the priest

that has had a special
direction from the

Bishop can do exorcism.

Nobody else can.

Is it necessary for a priest,
who is chosen by the Bishop,

to evince a certain talent?

They need to be particularly
trustworthy priests,

that have an
intense spiritual life.

You have to have courage.

Coraggio.

Si.

You've done exorcisms yourself.

How many?

So, he gets lots and
lots of requests.

But the real right
hardcore ones,

about ten per week.

When someone comes to you,

what tells you that it's a possession
rather than a mental problem?

The first thing that
an exorcist does,

is to see if there
are visible signs.

If the person has an
aversion for the sacred...

or the knowledge of languages.

He's been following
a 15 year old

who speaks about ten
different archaic languages.

He speaks in
Coptic, in Sanskrit, in...

Coptic?

Yes. Sanskrit. Coptic.

And he got a specialist,
a monk whose been studying...

And the monk could
not believe...

He's terrified.

This...

Have you had repeat, go
back to the same person,

over and over?

The same person goes to
see the same exorcist

for more than two or
three years sometimes.

It's like a cure.

Like, you cure the body.

You cure the soul.

Is it...

possible...

to witness one?

According to the church,

the prayer of exorcism cannot
be shown to the public.

I can't see a priest
perform an exorcism.

But I can speak to
a person who's been

on the receiving end
of many exorcisms.

Thank you very much
for talking to me.

Really appreciate it.

You're welcome.

I wanna point out

that, uh, you want
to remain anonymous.

Why?

I'm a physicist.

I do a lot of consulting work
for high technology companies

and...

it might be the kind of thing
that makes them hesitate

before deciding, that I'm the
guy they wanna do business with.

How did you,

a physicist,

a scientist, a man of science,

get into the idea...

of exorcism?

It wasn't a
straightforward experience.

'I was completely
different inside.'

I no longer had any ability
to feel any kind of happiness,

any kind of pleasure,

any kind of love or
affection for humans.

I felt like I was
a dead man walking.

I saw a variety of doctors,

endocrinologists,

variety of psychiatrists,

variety of psychologists.

You know, they had
no effect at all.

Brain scans found no
tumours or other abnormalities.

No medications helped him.

So he turned, in despair,

to less conventional remedies.

I didn't rule out things
because they sounded crazy

because I'd already gone through
all the things that sounded sane.

But one of the things I
encountered along the way,

was the concept of exorcism.

I was raised Catholic.

I thought, you know,
I can say the prayers.

So, one evening as I
was out jogging...

I went through the various
prayers and statements...

I got to the point where I said,
I cast you out foul spirit.

It was like slamming
into a brick wall.

I stopped abruptly,

I bent over, I had violent
dry heaves, convulsions.

That was very graphic evidence
that something was real.

What was your
immediate reaction?

I need to find somebody
who actually does exorcism

for real and
see if he can help me.

And I was fortunate
to live not that far

from a pretty
well-known exorcist.

What does exorcism feel like?

Imagine you're sitting there...

An exorcist,

he's going through the standard
prayers, standard statements.

He gets to the point of
speaking to the demon.

And he says, 'I
demand your name.'

My body started to react;

twitch,

jerk,

make strange and
very nasty faces,

convulsions,

thrashing and screaming.

It was very violent.

I remember I... I needed band-aids
afterwards for scratches.

How do you know when...

the exorcism's been successful?

Because it stops reacting to
the prayers and statements.

But of course, there were many,

so the cycle starts up
again with the next demon.

You went through this,

how long?

About five years, I think.

How do you feel now?

I feel human again.

The problem I had was an
incredible lack of emotion.

I couldn't feel love.

I couldn't feel any kind
of positive feeling.

Thankfully, exorcism
was effective in...

in restoring that
aspect to my life.

I was very grateful.

Being...

scientific minded,

how do you square that,

how do you square the fact that

this does exist for you?

You know, the definition of
science to me is you research,

you theorize, you test.

I didn't know if demons
were real or not,

now I do.

I have experienced up
close and personally,

in ways that are unmistakable,
the reality of evil spirits

and the reality of good
through the Lord, God.

For this tortured man,

the devil's demons
weren't metaphors

for emotional imbalance
or mental distress.

He experienced them as real,

tangible foes that he
struggled for years to expel.

Giving the devil solid form

doesn't necessarily
make him more powerful.

It can make him easier to fight,

and defeat.

But the faithful
don't always win.

And the gods of their
demons can multiply,

born in the gods
of another faith.

I have always loved Rome.

The street life,

the food,

the people.

What's most fascinating
about a city this ancient,

is the layers of history.

How one culture takes
over what has gone before,

and uses it for
its own purposes.

This wall,

was built to protect the
Romans in the 4th Century BC.

Now it holds up
this apartment building.

Re-purposing happens in
religion sometimes too.

Sometimes one faith's god,

can become another's devil.

Journalist Nelufar Hedayat,

has come to the ruins of
the ancient Roman city

of Pergamum, in
modern-day Turkey.

She's here to meet biblical
archaeologist Sarah Yeomans.

And to find out why
the Book of Revelation

said this was where
Satan had his throne.

This is, even in
its ruinous state,

it looks absolutely spectacular.

It's beautiful.

It is isn't it.
It's really a unique site.

It was a major city
in the Greek world

in the second and
first centuries BC,

and then it became a very
important city in the Roman world

once they took
control of this area.

The Romans built a forum,

an amphitheatre,

and several massive temples.

So, what we are looking at are the
remains of the Temple of Trajan,

this would have been built
in the second century,

to honour the Emperor Trajan,

and this is representative
of this tradition

of worshipping, uh,
deceased emperors,

and their families
and by doing so,

it's a way of honouring
the living emperor

and honouring the
existing government.

So the Romans...

honoured their...

their emperors, their politicians,
by turning them into deities.

Yes, having an imperial cult,

and requiring worship
of the imperial cult

was a way of
promoting nationalism,

was a way of promoting
what it meant to be Roman.

This sprawling city and
political epicentre,

may have been a symbol
of pride for Romans.

But the picture painted
by the Book of Revelation

implies that
Christians living here

had a very different experience.

The Romans had no problem with
Christians worshipping their God,

if you think about, you know, a
society that has so many gods,

there's always
room for one more.

What brought the Christians into
conflict with the Roman authorities

was the fact that they refused to
participate in Imperial Cult worship.

This was considered treasonous.

Intolerable.

Intolerable for
the Roman authorities.

The author of the Book of Revelation
emphasizes in his writings,

that there existed
a great tension between

the Christians and
the Roman authorities.

-Right.
-So...

it was a city where we
really see the conflict

between Roman authorities
and the early Christians.

How did that
play out in the city?

The tensions here
became so hostile,

that one of the members
of the Christian

community was martyred,
was executed...

Who was he and
why was he martyred?

His name was Antipas,

and he was executed we
believe for not being willing

to participate in the
worship of the Imperial Cult.

The location of Antipas's
death is not known for certain,

but some theories place it
at Pergamum's temple of Zeus.

A place that early Christians
came to call Satan's Throne.

What we're seeing now is essentially
what's left of the foundation.

The altar itself would have been
on top of what we're seeing.

Everything would have
been faced with white marble.

The altar, we believe,
was dedicated to Zeus,

and Zeus,

in Christian minds,

was really in direct opposition...
in direct conflict to their own god.

And if you read the
Book of Revelation,

you have a very similar
type of epic contest

taking place between
good and evil.

Christian tradition says that
Antipas was burned to death

inside a hollow
bull made of brass.

As the flames heated
the metallic beast,

Antipas cried out.

His death screams escaped
from the bull's open snout,

transformed,
cruelly, into snorts.

If they watched Antipas die in
the shadow of the altar of Zeus,

these early Christians could be
forgiven for seeing this place

as the Devil's throne.

The author of Book
of Revelation,

is, very intentionally,

setting up the Roman authorities

as equivalent to Satan,

and setting up this
place in particular

as the seat of Satan,

very cleverly creating
this opposition,

this sort of them
versus us scenario.

Ah, so this actually about,

about getting the
Christians motivated,

he's speaking specifically about
Christian brothers and sisters

suffering at the hands of the
Imperial powers, the Romans.

Precisely. It's a way to
unify the Christian community,

and have them see
the Roman authorities

and Imperial Government
as the evil one.

As something to be
resisted at all costs.

Associating the Romans and
their gods with the devil,

may have helped unify
early Christians.

But it's a dangerous tactic.

Driving a wedge between
people of different faiths

may just be what
the devil wants.

But there is one place
where a celebration

of the Devil brings
people together.

I've come back to
Kathmandu, in Nepal

where a party atmosphere
fills the streets.

It's called Dashain.

It's the biggest Hindu
festival of the year.

I've been invited to join a
typical family celebration.

Bearing traditional gifts
of fruits and sweets,

I've come to the home of
Shankar Raj Pandey.

-Namaste.
-Namaste.

-Welcome Morgan.
-Thank you so much.

Nice to have you here.

It is my pleasure to
be here and this...

Well thank you so much.
Thank you so much.

Come on in.

So this is my family here.

Oh!

-Namaste, namaste.
-Namaste, namaste.

Good looking bunch of people.

Namaste.

Namaste.

Namaste.

Namaste.

Namaste.

Namaste.

So, Dashain, it's
a family affair.

Yes, very much so.

Dashain has ten main days

and on the 10th day we
congregate as a family,

celebrating uh,

the Gods' victory over,
over the demons.

According to Hindu mythology,

there was a king
named Mahishasura,

who pleaded to Brahma,
the god of creation,

to grant him immortality.

Brahma granted his wish,

but later came to regret it...

So the story goes that

Mahishasura become a demon.

So he turned to a bad guy.

That's right.
He turned into a real bad guy.

Mahishasura raised a demon army

and began attacking the gods.

Like Lucifer,
Christianity's fallen angel,

he became an embodiment of evil.

For two weeks each fall,

Hindu families in Nepal come
together in celebration.

Here at Shankar Pandey's house,

they are happily feasting and
performing rituals.

But the divine story
behind Dashain;

of a powerful demon
attacking the Hindu gods...

doesn't sound to me like
a cause for celebration.

Okay, now we're in
this big battle.

Nine days of
battle, of fierce battle.

The bad guy,
however, is winning?

Well he started
troubling the Gods.

Mahishasura had
been made invincible.

But the creator God Brahma
had made one caveat...

a woman could kill him.

So the gods combined all
their divine energies,

to summon a fierce, 10-armed
virgin goddess named Durga.

Durga battled the demon
Mahishasura for nine days.

Finally, on the 10th day,

she defeated him.

But the Dashain festival
is about more than simply

remembering this victory of
good over evil.

It's a battle Shanker
and many Nepalese Hindus

imagine is taking place
inside themselves.

When you take the whole epic,

and, and put it
on to our self...

When we feel all powerful,

then there is a tendency
of the demon, within us,

to take precedence over
our goodness...

It's good over evil,

but in essence we are
fighting with ourselves.

Most homes receive a
visit from a priest

for blessings with holy water.

It's a reminder that
there is at least

a kernel of evil inside everyone

and that it needs
to be controlled.

After the sprinkling
of the holy waters.

Now the second part of
the function starts,

which the priest will
put the tika onto my mom.

Receiving the tika bestows good
fortune, health, long life.

And it evokes supreme
power within you.

My mom was first because she's
the eldest right, so we receive...

You think so?

I think so.

-How old is your mom?
-Eighty-six.

Yep, she is.

Because I,
because I read about you.

Ah!

So this is tikka,

vermilion powder, rice,
grains, and yogurt...

and this is the jamara.

So you just to do this put
it like this, yeah okay.

And there is a belief
that during this Dashain,

that you need to lift
your feet off the ground.

Elevating your spirit above
your baser tendencies,

is both metaphorical and literal
for the Nepalese during the Dashain.

There is another aspect
which I think you should see.

There is this concept
of uh, a swing;

it's a bamboo swing that people
erect in different parts of the city

and uh villages and
there is a belief that

you need to lift your
feet off the ground.

To be airborne.

-Airborne.
-Exactly.

So that frees your spirit

and brings in all the
good stuff to our soul.

So do you believe
that there is pure evil?

Pure evil?

You know, that's 100%
evil is not possible.

I don't think so.

Some person is very good
and someone is very bad.

Right.

But then every bad
person also has goodness.

Somewhere.

Somewhere and if we can, if
you can extrapolate that,

and, and take it out and,

and let him, I mean
let the light come out

so that the darkness
goes away...

Even if it is .001%
there is light,

and that... that is enough light

to work towards
eliminating darkness.

Interesting.

You don't believe that
there is pure evil,

that the devil stands alone.

No, if you believe
that God is omnipotent...

that it is all his creation...

so good and evil are just
a way of teaching us.

Okay, Morgan, you wanna try?

-Okay what?
-Be on the swing?

On the swing. Lift yourself up,

-lift your spirit.
-Me?

Yeah, it's safe,
don't worry, it's safe.

Okay. Alright.

Okay.

I'm not really afraid.

Okay.

Airborne.

How high can I go?

-Enjoying it?
-Yes.

Yeah, now lift up
your spirit again.

It should do that.

I'm doing.
Is that spirit lift?

Watch the dismount now,
watch the dismount.

You know,

seeing people's faces

as they soar towards the heavens

and celebrate the
good inside them,

makes one think of
evil in a different way.

The Devil allows us
to test our willpower.

He is the embodiment
of what we must defeat,

both out in the world

and within our hearts.

Striving to beat the Devil,

has the power to uplift us,

and bring us together.

The Nepalese believe that

there is evil even in
the most saintly person

and good in the most devilish.

We should all make the choice

to rise up

and slay the demons inside us.