{"id":7012,"date":"2010-12-17T19:23:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T01:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=7012"},"modified":"2010-12-19T23:57:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T05:57:31","slug":"the-genius-that-is-stephen-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/the-genius-that-is-stephen-colbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus is a liberal Democrat and Stephen Colbert is a genius"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jesus in the desert - Day 21<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While I agree more with Shane Claiborne’s<\/a> understanding of Jesus’ politics<\/a> these two clips are pure Stephen Colbert genius…<\/p>\n

Just wait for the great closer at the end of clip 2.
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\nPart 1:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The Colbert Report<\/a><\/td>\nMon – Thurs 11:30pm \/ 10:30c<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Christmas Holy Week<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
www.colbertnation.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Colbert Report Full Episodes<\/a><\/td>\nPolitical Humor & Satire Blog<\/a><\/td>\nMarch to Keep Fear Alive<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Part 2:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The Colbert Report<\/a><\/td>\nMon – Thurs 11:30pm \/ 10:30c<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jesus Is a Liberal Democrat<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
www.colbertnation.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Colbert Report Full Episodes<\/a><\/td>\nPolitical Humor & Satire Blog<\/a><\/td>\nMarch to Keep Fear Alive<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we’ve got to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition — and then admit that we just don’t want to do it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I agree more with Shane Claiborne’s understanding of Jesus’ politics these two clips are pure Stephen Colbert genius… Just wait for the great closer at the end of clip 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,5],"tags":[3322,286,493,4645,904,250],"class_list":["post-7012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-politics","tag-democrat","tag-jesus","tag-liberal","tag-politics","tag-shane-claiborne","tag-steven-colbert"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1P6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}