On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 5:38 AM, Brad Beam <[email protected]> wrote:
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *PGage > > > I thought his recent take-down of Jeb! and other Republicans for their > hostile attitudes towards Refugees was brilliant, but predictably my FB > feed, contributed to by a lot of evangelical and fundamentalist Christians, > has been in histrionics ever since. > > > > Which I find odd because, given everything I’ve read and seen, Colbert may > be one of the more religious people on broadcast TV. > > e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-zxn-YGUI4 > There is no doubt that Colbert is both the most liberal person on network television and one of the most religious. But he is a liberal Catholic - that is not an oxymoron, and it has a long history, but it is not a category that popular culture has carved out in its imagination, and the more visible, loud and obnoxious group of conservative Christians hate liberal Christians like Colbert even more than they hate non-believers (heretics are always hated more than pagans). -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
