Glad to see some folk took up my challenge about Logan's authenticity. I don't think you need to look OUTSIDE the clip itself to see your evidence.
The whole ting is an obvious setup and the evidence for that is not EXTERNAL to it (such as that someone might "prove" that some young actor was primed to be "Logan")- no, the evidence is INTERNAL to the clip itself.
You study the clip and, if you understand enough about theatre, acting, and child development, you see immediately that:
1. The whole thing is a theatrical stunt - no child could ever have carried off such a faultless performance without being scripted and trained - right down to the last "sigh" and "sob" (!) No - It was pure theatre and anyone who thinks otherwise must never have seen anything on the stage. The same can be said to the professional actor-interviewer (who is passed off as some innocent person who was telephoned by the kid). Try the raw prawn on someone else, mate!
2. In terms of child development no child (except possibly a total genius) could ever have made the cognitive connection between his shooting of his pet cow and God's "killing" of his "own son" (forgive me but to even say that makes me want to puke - the callously bloodthirsty violent nature of X-tianity is too revolting to even talk about). No ... that level of cognitive connection is almost totally unknown in thirteen year olds (they haven't developed the capacity to make those connections), and the kid had necessarily to have been reading a script.

None of that is in the least surprising. Sects, cults and other weird religious groups have to corrupt themselves to gain converts by every means possible including telling lies, and that's normal - "par for the course" for evangelical religions.They have no truth within them, so their whole modus operandi has to be the telling of lies and half-truths.

Hi Tucker....

may I refer you to my last post?

I am rather surprised by your level of cynicism... truly. To think that people would be so desperate as to invent a 'stunt' like this is bizzare.

I think your take on the incident is more a commentary on your own spiritual condition than anything else. Your mind is rather stuck in a particular mould, and because of this, you cannot detect the naturalness in the call.

What I detected is this.

1/ Genuine call
2/ In which there was a fleeting moment of 'preach' mode by Logan as he brought together his faith background to the experience, then back to normal mode. I don't think he was conscious of this, but I've seen it and even experienced it myself at times.
3/ The U.S. cultural "Celebrity Machine" took up where Logan left off.

I don't see anything much to be gained for our faith by the call, it just repeated well known ideas. I think the biggest blessing is just that people can see the simple faith of a child and be encouraged by it.

Regarding God giving His Son, in sacrificial love for mankind's sin... there is no greater expression of it. Our society is based on the idea of 'if you do the crime, you do the time.. "justice". If you had committed some horrible act .. lets say 'murdered someone..and ur looking at 20 yrs in the slammer.. would you choose "20yrs" or.. if someone offered you a way out.. that? Well.. your eternal choices are yours. No1 is going to drag you kicking and screaming to the Cross.

Our prayer is for your repentance.

boaz, I concur with Tuckeroo. The piece is very clearly theatrics.

It lacks verisimilitude, and this kid would be more at home in some kind of fundamentalist disney film.

Boaz, there's no way it's real. It doesn't have that tinge of reality, it's just treacle.

So in response to your critique of tuckeroo:

"I am rather surprised by your level of cynicism... truly. To think that people would be so desperate as to invent a 'stunt' like this is bizzare."

What's bizarre? Youtube has all manner of orchestrated bizarre performances, and clearly, there's plenty of people out there who feel the need to push a religious wheelbarrow by whatever means they can.
There's far more bizarre stunts on youtube with much more ambiguous motivation.

"I think your take on the incident is more a commentary on your own spiritual condition than anything else."

As opposed to your spiritual gullibility? Come on, boaz, I'll concede there are reasons to have a spiritual belief set, but this hokey piece of American cheeseball theatre ain't one of em.

Listen to the music that's in the background. This is clear evidence that there has been some tampering of the phone call.

Why would it be normal for someone to add an overdone orchestral set, but abnormal for them to make a hoax performance?

Why is one level of theatrics normal, but one 'bizarre?'

This performance doesn't annoy me for it's overt fundamentalism nearly as much as it's bad directing.

As an attempt at a serious performance, this is less convincing than 'bambi.'

TRTL: "this hokey piece of American cheeseball theatre "

I want to know why Logan sounds so much like Shirley Temple.

Genuine is as genuine does, BOZO.

It may not be a scam, but it IS a travesty.

What a pitiful situation that a kid should be so brainwashed and well rehearsed by so called 'responsible adults' to phone a radio station with this tripe.

Remember that young evangelist with his father, travelling around the USA, preaching religious fundamentalism? The lad was about 12, and wore an all white suit to match his pallid white face. He could not converse in anything other than the scriptures.

It was straight out child abuse.

Offering this up as a depiction of all that is good and true, is an indictment on how far YOU will go to get your message across.

(Btw; BOZO, I don't like to waste my post count responding to you, so let me tell you here that my 'green slime' comment was referring to a FROG!.....besides; the day I will take lessons from you in judgmental behaviour, is indeed the day hell freezes over).

Shirley Temple, CJ?

I thought he sounded like that kid out of American Gothic, which is funny because that was set in South Carolina, and Logan's is supposed to be from Nebraska, but he sounds southern.

It's possible that the drawl from being in a small town/farming community that he supposedly comes from sounds different to other Nebraskan accents I've heard.