File photo — Colbert in Columbia in 2007
A couple of weeks ago, I ran across something that made me want to look further. It was about John McCain’s appearance on one of the last shows of “The Colbert Report”:
He also forgot that Colbert teaches Sunday School, and got schooled on Bible verse.
I vaguely knew that Colbert was a fellow South Carolina Catholic, but I didn’t realize how involved he was with his faith. So I did some Googling, and among other things, I found this item cataloging six times when the real Colbert broke through the character and talked about his faith:
- The Time He Talked about Faith and Tragedy with The New York Times
- The Time He Explained Hell on NPR
- The Time He Embarrassed a Guy that Suggested God Caused Evil
- The Time He Argued for Christ’s Divinity
- The Time He Discussed the Importance of Humor in Faith
- The Time He Used the Bible to Advocate for Immigration Reform at Congress
As an example, here is one of those items:
Stephen Colbert is not a fan of Bart Ehrman. The religious scholar came on The Colbert Report to promote his book Jesus, Interrupted which questions the credibility of the Gospel and the divinity of Christ Himself. It got brutal. For nearly 7 minutes, Colbert deftly explained seeming contradictions in the New Testament, showed how Scripture supports Christ’s divinity and intellectually embarrassed the scholar in Zimbardo fashion. You can watch the entire exchange here.
I had no idea that Colbert was so serious about his faith, or indeed such a defender of Catholic orthodoxy. I thought his fans among you would be interested. And so, during this Advent season, when people of faith are supposed to be reflecting on such things, I share this.
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Huh. I thought this was interesting. Colbert is such a hero to the (largely) secular left, which generally has little use for the Roman Church, and he’s apparently as orthodox a Catholic as one is likely to find.
But no comments. Huh…
Because we don’t care?