The recent cancellation of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert reminds me of one of the most important things he ever said:
“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we’ve got to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition, and then admit that we just don’t want to do it.” — Stephen Colbert [1]
I’m thankful for what you, as individuals, and we, together as a church, do to help those in need. I wish our country, as a whole, would do more. The failure to do so is just one of the many reasons to stop claiming that this is a Christian nation. We are a nation that includes Christians, but we are not a Christian nation.
[1] Comedy Central: The Colbert Report, 2010.