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STEPHEN COLBERT ON BEING A “FOOL FOR CHRIST” [NOT satire!]
The Gospel Coalition ^ | 9/29/15 | Trevin Wax

Posted on 09/29/2015 3:56:47 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

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Hmmmm....
1 posted on 09/29/2015 3:56:47 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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shifts the conversation to what it means to be a “fool for Christ.” That’s when Colbert defines foolishness for Christ as the willingness “to be wrong in society, or wrong according to our time, but right according to our conscience, as guided by the Holy Spirit.”

Not too far off, as the Word of God is how the Holy Spirit reveals truth to us...I wonder if Colbert is willing to acknowledge that verity.

2 posted on 09/29/2015 3:58:20 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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I don’t know what anyone sees in the pretend comedian Colbert.


3 posted on 09/29/2015 4:00:13 PM PDT by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Is this for real? But he belongs to the party of gay marriage and abortion. I’m Catholic and could never be a democrat because of these and many other reasons.


4 posted on 09/29/2015 4:00:56 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: SoFloFreeper

With Colbert, I never know if any opinion he expresses is something he believes in reality, or something he presumes one of his many ‘Masks’, or personas would say. If the later, I always wonder what desired effect he expects or hopes to produce. I do believe he is devoted to his family. Meanwhile, he’s a by-the-book lib and republicans are taking a risk being on his show, unless they are as quick and clever as Ted Cruz. Most the other GOP are not as savvy.


5 posted on 09/29/2015 4:03:56 PM PDT by lee martell
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I don’t know what anyone sees in the pretend comedian Colbert.

He's very funny. Very smart. And a very devout Roman Catholic.

6 posted on 09/29/2015 4:05:08 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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You like him? Good for you. I think he’s an unfunny dope and I bet his gig at CBS won’t last long.


7 posted on 09/29/2015 4:08:29 PM PDT by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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He's very funny. Very smart. And a very devout Roman Catholic.

You know what they say about opinions, personally I don't care for him one damn bit, he stole his shtick from a dead man.

8 posted on 09/29/2015 4:09:08 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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If the noxious, blasphemous Jew-hating Jimmy Carter is a Christian, then so is Colbert by that metric.


9 posted on 09/29/2015 4:22:25 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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“Very smart. And a very devout Roman Catholic. “

So is Martin Sheen.


10 posted on 09/29/2015 4:22:38 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: DoodleDawg

He also knows more about Tolkien and his works than probably anybody else alive.


11 posted on 09/29/2015 4:25:36 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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I don’t think he minded.


12 posted on 09/29/2015 4:26:09 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: dp0622

He’s played a character for so long, not even his fans know where the act ends and the real idiot begins.


13 posted on 09/29/2015 4:27:29 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: SoFloFreeper

Figures he’s a libtard and catholic


14 posted on 09/29/2015 4:30:04 PM PDT by MARKUSPRIME
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To: dp0622

The Pope wants us in the party of globull warming though.


15 posted on 09/29/2015 4:30:34 PM PDT by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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Yeah, probably no more than he minded being murdered


16 posted on 09/29/2015 4:30:47 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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White Catholics vote majority for republicans. And it’s a pretty big spread. this guy’s just an idiot.


17 posted on 09/29/2015 4:41:50 PM PDT by dp0622
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but right according to our conscience, as guided by the Holy Spirit.”

Sounds like he is talking about Kohlberg's highest stage of moral development. In this stage, right is determined by self-chosen ethical principles that underscores the person's profound respect for the universal ideals of the Holy Spirit that have been internalized in his conscience. These self-chosen principles take precedence over democratically determined laws when there is a conflict between the two.

18 posted on 09/29/2015 4:43:34 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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You like him? Good for you. I think he’s an unfunny dope and I bet his gig at CBS won’t last long.

I do. But I know that people's tastes are different. People think other comedians are funny that I can't stand. I don't agree with you on his future at CBS but I suppose time will tell which of us is right.

19 posted on 09/29/2015 4:47:33 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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You know what they say about opinions, personally I don't care for him one damn bit, he stole his shtick from a dead man.

To each his own.

20 posted on 09/29/2015 4:48:13 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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