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I watched this yesterday evening (on the web). God, but I love Stephen Colbert.

Stephen Colbert: ‘Jesus always wins!’
Oh, no he doesn’t.
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And panties, as the late Ian Dury would add.

Ha, ha!
Of course, if Stephen Colbert’s criterion about Adam is applied to Michelangelo’s David, it’s clear that David is not Jewish!

i haven’t had the chance to see this particular interview from Colbert yet. Now don’t get me wrong, i love the guy, i think he’s hilarious, i love his act. but it can make some of his interviews kind of irritating.
sometimes i’ll be interested in what the interviewer has to say, but 75% of the interview time will be Colbert butting in to make jokes. Granted, it’s usually funny, but still. Jon Stewart can usually make jokes without monopolizing the conversation.
still, this doesn’t happen often, but when it does, it can make his entire schtick a little tired. That is, until i watch another episode. then i’m back to laughing constantly. Go figure.

It’s sad that the two best interviewers on TV are Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Even when they interrupt a lot, they really to try to help their guests get the guests’ point across. The two also work hard to bring writers and ideas to their audiences that the audiences wouldn’t have come across but for the Colbert/Stewart shows.
Here, Colbert interrupted a lot in the beginning, but I think it was because he really wanted to get through all eight religions in the time he had. Some of the other interruptions were jokes, but the jokes often had a point. And even where they didn’t, well, that’s what Colbert does to keep the parts of his audience that otherwise would not stick around to watch a lecture on religion.

David J. White: “Of course, if Stephen Colbert’s criterion about Adam is applied to Michelangelo’s David, it’s clear that David is not Jewish!”
Michelangelo had a lot of fun with theology at the expense of the Church. Consider: Adam as depicted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling has a naval, implying a biological father and mother.

I suspect that Michelangelo’s depictions of Adam and David have less to do with theological commentary on his part (what after all would be the theological point of depicting David as uncircumcised?) and more to do with reflecting contemporary standards of male beauty. After all, Renaissance standards in this regard were shaped to a great degree by the rediscovery of classical sculpture, and nude male figures in classical Greek and Roman sculture are universally depicted and uncircumcised (as of course were the Greeks and Romans themselves) and with navels.
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Yes! I could use a glass right about now!

I just got around to watching this. Funny. I was surprised that Colbert was a Catholic and seems to be a believing one. His humorous takes on suffering and on Jesus were right on. And his profession of faith as it were, “Jesus always wins in the end,” is a good way of putting the ultimate truth of Christianity.