Stephen Colbert Talks Faith, Lent, Favorite Hymns and Saints

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http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/watch-stephen-colbert-talks-faith-lent-favorite-hymns-and-saints-1201445110/

Cynthia Littleton
Managing Editor: Television

Stephen Colbert is generally keeping a low profile in the news media while he prepares to take over CBS’ “The Late Show” from David Letterman in September. But he gave a video interview to the Catholic publication America Magazine that offered a glimpse into his personal faith credo.

During the long run of “The Colbert Report,” Colbert often billed himself as “America’s foremost Catholic.” He proves his bona fides in this nearly seven-minute interview with Father Jim Martin, the magazine’s editor at large. He riffs on his favorite hymns, passages from scripture and explains why the “super flawed” Peter is his favorite saint. And for good measure, he throws in a quote from Frank Herbert’s “Dune.”

Colbert is also set to don a collar to play a clergyman in an upcoming episode of “The Mindy Project,” as creator/star Mindy Kaling teased in a tweet last month.

[MellowDem]

1. A perfect example of religious privilege...

Of having your cake and eating it too.

I liked the Colbert Report, I thought it was great satire.

But I always realized the only reason Colbert could seriously identify with a bigoted organization such as the Catholic Church while skewering fundamental Catholic beliefs was religious privilege, and why his audience could look past this contradiction.

I'm tired of this sort of religious privilege, I don't think it's right or fair or good for society.

What other explicitly bigoted belief system could Colbert identify with and even have interviews for that would be seen as perfectly normal and acceptable by even people on the left?