Spoiler alert: last night, comedian Alan Carr won The Celebrity Traitors. It was some top-quality TV, and two moments can be of particular interest to us as evangelicals.
The burden of deceit
Now, if you're unfamiliar with the concept of The Traitors (as I was until this year when I, admittedly, became hooked), contestants bunk-up in a Scottish castle with some getting branded as "Faithfuls" and others, as "Traitors." The goal of a Traitor is to remain undetected by the Faithfuls, thereby not getting voted out (or "banished"), make it to the end, and nab the prize money.
In this instance, the contestants were celebrities and the prize money was for charity. Now, if you didn't experience the endless games of "Mafia" at university Christian Union events like I did, you might be somewhat uncomfortable with a game based on deceit - I get it. What made this series better was that the prize money went to charity; in the non-celebrity version of the show, however, players are on a mission to win the money for themselves.
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