{"id":608,"date":"2010-12-18T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/take-the-liberal-democrat-jesus-out-of-christmas-and-give-tax-cuts-for-the-romans\/"},"modified":"2010-12-18T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T22:48:00","slug":"take-the-liberal-democrat-jesus-out-of-christmas-and-give-tax-cuts-for-the-romans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/take-the-liberal-democrat-jesus-out-of-christmas-and-give-tax-cuts-for-the-romans.html","title":{"rendered":"Take the Liberal Democrat Jesus Out Of Christmas, and Give Tax Cuts for the Romans"},"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>Many other people have already shared this video from Stephen Colbert. Sorry it took me so long to watch and share it.<\/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\/368914\/december-16-2010\/jesus-is-a-liberal-democrat\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jesus Is a Liberal Democrat<\/a><a class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/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.colbertnation.com\/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 &amp; Satire Blog<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:3px;width:33%\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/video\/tag\/March%20to%20Keep%20Fear%20Alive\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">March to Keep Fear Alive<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>HT to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.faithinpubliclife.org\/2010\/12\/conservatives_for_keeping_chri.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Faith in Public Life<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/robertcargill.com\/2010\/12\/18\/colbert-jesus-was-a-liberal-democrat-satire-kinda\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bob Cargill<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thechurchofjesuschrist.us\/2010\/12\/the-theologian-colbert-on-the-liberal-democrat-jesus\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheChurchOfJesusChrist+%28The+Church+of+Jesus+Christ%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Joel Watts<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jrdkirk.com\/2010\/12\/17\/jesus-is-a-liberal-democrat\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daniel Kirk<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/jesus-is-a-liberal-democrat\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JesusNeedsNewPr+%28JESUS+NEEDS+NEW+PR%3A+The+blog+of+author+Matthew+Paul+Turner%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Matthew Paul Turner<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/newwaystheology.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/colbert-exposes-jesus-and-his-socialist.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">New Ways Forward<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelhalcomb.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/jesus-says-poor-dont-deserve-christmas.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Pisteuomen-TheWeblogOfTMichaelWHalcomb+%28Pisteuomen+-+The+Weblog+of+T+Michael+W+Halcomb%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michael Halcomb<\/a>. (It is easier to give a hat tip to everyone I know of who shared it before me, than to try to figure out who shared it first!)<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6195889435118488428?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many other people have already shared this video from Stephen Colbert. Sorry it took me so long to watch and share it. 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