{"id":1859,"date":"2009-12-10T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/andy-schlafly-on-the-colbert-report\/"},"modified":"2009-12-10T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T09:02:00","slug":"andy-schlafly-on-the-colbert-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/andy-schlafly-on-the-colbert-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Andy Schlafly On The Colbert Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Andy Schlafly (founder of Conservapedia and the Conservative Bible Project) was on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/258144\/december-08-2009\/andy-schlafly\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Colbert Report<\/a> yesterday:<\/p>\n<table style=\"font:11px arial;color:#333;background-color:#f5f5f5\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"360\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background-color:#e5e5e5\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:2px 1px 0px 5px\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Colbert Report<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:2px 5px 0px 5px;text-align:right;font-weight:bold\">Mon \u2013 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\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/258144\/december-08-2009\/andy-schlafly\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Andy Schlafly<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height:14px;background-color:#353535\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"padding:2px 5px 0px 5px;width:360px;overflow:hidden;text-align:right\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.colbertnation.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:0px\" colspan=\"2\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height:18px\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:0px\" colspan=\"2\">\n<table style=\"margin:0px;text-align:center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:3px;width:33%\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/colbertreport\/full-episodes\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Colbert Report Full Episodes<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:3px;width:33%\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indecisionforever.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Political Humor<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:3px;width:33%\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/254015\/november-02-2009\/sport-report---nyc-marathon---olympic-speedskating\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">U.S. Speedskating<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I loved the contrast between the \u201cbest of the public\u201d vs. \u201cthe mathematicians\u201d and the whole discussion of what truth is and how it is identified. But also worth noting is the notion of \u201cfree market parables.\u201d One thing Biblical scholars are aware of is that the <a href=\"http:\/\/lwwdc.org\/Talents.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">cultural background<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+25:14-30;&amp;version=NIV;\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the parable of the talents<\/a> might suggest the parable would not have been heard as advocating a modern capitalist approach to economics.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5427907430482031196?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Schlafly (founder of Conservapedia and the Conservative Bible Project) was on The Colbert Report yesterday: The Colbert Report Mon \u2013 Thurs 11:30pm \/ 10:30c Andy Schlafly www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor U.S. Speedskating I loved the contrast between the \u201cbest of the public\u201d vs. \u201cthe mathematicians\u201d and the whole discussion of what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Andy Schlafly On The Colbert Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Andy Schlafly (founder of Conservapedia and the Conservative Bible Project) was on The Colbert Report yesterday:The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm \/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/andy-schlafly-on-the-colbert-report.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Andy Schlafly On The Colbert Report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Andy Schlafly (founder of Conservapedia and the Conservative Bible Project) was on The Colbert Report yesterday:The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm \/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/andy-schlafly-on-the-colbert-report.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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