Stephen Colbert - Religion's Gifts

Excerpts from Stephen Colbert's chapter on Religion from his book "I Am America (And So Can You!)."

Stephen Colbert's book on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Am-America-So-Can-You/dp/0446580503/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=...

Satan & Adam's "Mother Mojo" CD (re: this video's intro & exit music): http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0010SGETW/ref=dm_sp_alb?ie=UTF8&qid=122...

Also, the harmonica player in Satan & Adam, Adam Gussow, has a *great* instructional YouTube channel for intermediate and advanced harp players—see http://www.youtube.com/user/KudzuRunner

Colbert excerpts read by Todd Allen Gates, author of "Dialogue with a Christian Proselytizer" and "Hunting, Gathering, & Videogames."

My three YouTube channels:

- http://youtube.com/user/ToddGates - my musician channel

- http://youtube.com/user/ToddAllenGates - where I discuss the ideas in my book "Dialogue with a Christian Proselytizer" (a dialogue between a Christian proselytizer and a Socratic skeptic)

- http://youtube.com/user/ToddAllenGates2 - where I discuss the ideas in my book "Hunting, Gathering, & Videogames" (such as "Why do we have to work?" and "Why do we have to use money?" and "How should we define 'success'?")

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[MumblingMickey]

Erm... yeah okay... you can do comedy... Not sure what field your in... but you are definitely not a 'suit guy'

(not meant as any form of insult)

Anyway... yep ... 5 stars, and subscribe too!

[ToddAllenGates]

> you can do comedy... Not sure what field you're in

The comedy is all Stephen Colbert - I'm just reciting excerpts from his book. As for my field, my background is music: see the video I uploaded today - a gospel piano / blues harp / atheistic analysis of the song "Will the Circle Be Unbroken." (Title: "Fear of death: the wishful oomph to the god hypothesis.")

> 5 stars, and subscribe too!

Thank you!

[SirLawliet]

The most surprising thing about that chapter is that Stephen Colbert says he is a Catholic who just believes that it's ok to question the church.

Although in my opinion, that just makes his satirical jabs at his deity more ironic and hilarious.

Nice Colbert impression by the way.

[ToddAllenGates]

> The most surprising thing about that chapter is that Stephen Colbert says he is a Catholic who just believes that it's ok to question the church

That kind of thing amazes me about many Catholics -- they feel free to ridicule the church, but still believe enough to call themselves Catholic.

> Nice Colbert impression by the way.

Thanks!

[MyAlternateAccount]

CanyonLakeTX: Your ignorance far exceeds your intelligence. Your video is plucking insane.

CanyonLake. This is material from Stephen Colbert. Colbert takes the ignorance & insanity of religion (among other topics), exaggerates it, and then embraces it with a passionate vengeance. It's called SATIRE. That's why it's on Comedy Central.

[smalltownatheist]

LOL!  Thanks for this, Todd!

[DanC9189]

i am america and so can you is awesome, except i cant be america cos i'm from england. still cool

[CanyonLakeTX]

Stephen did not write that book, his staff of writers did. He puts his name on it and they split the profit.

I take back my prior comment I did not understand what you were reading.

[CanyonLakeTX]

Your ignorance far exceeds your intelligence.

Your video is plucking insane.

[RationalLiberty]

omg

tiger philosopher hobbes! lols