{"id":19661,"date":"2010-12-24T12:59:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T19:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=19661"},"modified":"2010-12-24T13:26:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T20:26:36","slug":"the-reason-for-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/24\/the-reason-for-the-season.html","title":{"rendered":"The Reason for the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/368914\/december-16-2010\/jesus-is-a-liberal-democrat\">Jesus is a Liberal Democrat<\/a> (16 Dec 2010):<\/p>\n<table style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal arial; color: #333333; background-color: #f5f5f5; height: 353px;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"360\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #e5e5e5;\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding: 2px 1px 0px 5px;\"><a style=\"color: #333; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Colbert Report<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 2px 5px 0px 5px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;\">Mon &#8211; Thurs 11:30pm \/ 10:30c<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 14px;\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding: 2px 1px 0px 5px;\" colspan=\"2\">Jesus Is a Liberal Democrat<a><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 14px; background-color: #353535;\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding: 2px 5px 0px 5px; width: 360px; overflow: hidden; text-align: right;\" colspan=\"2\"><a style=\"color: #96deff; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.colbertnation.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding: 0px;\" colspan=\"2\"><object style=\"display: block;\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"360\" height=\"301\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"autoPlay=false\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:368914\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 18px;\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding: 0px;\" colspan=\"2\">\n<table style=\"text-align: center; height: 100%; margin: 0px;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding: 3px; width: 33%;\"><a style=\"font: 10px arial; color: #333; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/full-episodes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colbert Report Full Episodes<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 3px; width: 33%;\"><a style=\"font: 10px arial; color: #333; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indecisionforever.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Political Humor &amp; Satire Blog&lt;\/a&gt;<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 3px; width: 33%;\"><a style=\"font: 10px arial; color: #333; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/video\/tag\/March%20to%20Keep%20Fear%20Alive\" target=\"_blank\">March to Keep Fear Alive<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wist.info\/colbert-stephen\/13321\/\">Money quote<\/a>:<em> &#8220;If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn\u2019t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus is just as selfish as we are or we\u2019ve got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition. And then admit that we just don\u2019t want to do it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/cafephilos.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/22\/stephen-colbert-on-jesus-and-our-christian-nation\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+CafPhilosAnInternetCaf+(Caf%C3%A9+Philos:+an+internet+caf%C3%A9)\">Cafe Philos<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert on Jesus is a Liberal Democrat (16 Dec 2010): The Colbert Report Mon &#8211; Thurs 11:30pm \/ 10:30c Jesus Is a Liberal Democrat www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor &amp; Satire Blog&lt;\/a&gt; March to Keep Fear Alive Money quote: &#8220;If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn\u2019t help the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/24\/the-reason-for-the-season.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Reason for the Season&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48904,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/12\/colbert-gets-all-the-big-stars-on-his-show.html","url_meta":{"origin":19661,"position":0},"title":"Colbert gets all the big stars on his show","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 12-Dec-14 11:59am","format":false,"excerpt":"Including, apparently, Smaug.Let's see you do your eagle scream now, Stephen ... 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