The Colbert Report: "Jesus is a Liberal Democrat"

I posted this to my Facebook page the other day, but I love it enough to want to share it with a (slightly) wider audience. Colbert, as usual, drives the point home beautifully.

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Jesus Is a Liberal Democrat
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As my husband pointed out, he walks a fine line between humor and sermon in this instance. And please do not think I'm trying to make a political statement here. If you read the title of this video and can't get any further in your thinking, then you have completely missed the very real point: that Jesus has asked us to do very hard things, and that we are, very often, failing.

Of course, the logical argument would be, "Hey, wait, Jesus didn't say it's the government's responsibility to care for the poor and needy--that's the Church's job!" Which is 100% accurate. But the church is failing. And the government feels the need, whether it's right or not, to pick up all the slack. This is the situation in which Colbert (and the rest of us) finds himself.

Note: In case you didn't know, Colbert is an active and practicing Catholic. And if you care, you can find the original video here, along with a lot of ridiculous and misguided comments from commenters who couldn't stomach the thought of "Jesus" and "Democrat" in the same sentence. (My favorite was from a person who said, to paraphrase, "Jesus didn't say all rich people should sell their possessions and give to the poor--just that one guy. So clearly it doesn't apply to anyone else." All-righty then.)