Chris Hedges appeared on The Colbert Report to talk about his book American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.
Crooks and Liars has the video:
COLBERT: They're all full of love, and you sound very angry, so who's the Christian here?
HEDGES: I don't think anger is a bad thing. I mean, Augustine said hope has two children, anger and courage. Anger at the way things are and courage to make them better. And I look at [the Christian Right] as a movement that is destroying a faith that I care deeply about. I mean these people don't speak about compassion. They don't speak about the poor. They've perverted the religion into this gospel of prosperity where Jesus will make us all rich and blesses bombs dropped …
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