I think perhaps it’s because I’ve met many people who think this way for reai, but this line from Stephen Colbert’s recent speech at Princeton (done in character) made me want to spew milk out of my nose. Alas, I had no milk to spew.

Colbert, inspiration for Ben & Jerry’s AmeriCone Dream, continued dousing dreams. “You know that song, ‘We are the world. We are the children?’ ” he said. “That is a lie. We are the world, we adults. On behalf of adults, I am begging you to leave the world alone. We have worked long and hard to make things comfortable for ourselves. And we don’t appreciate it when some new generation comes along and starts touching all our stuff.”

Oh how often I’ve had people try to pull that in every congregation I’ve ever been part of! It’s so nice to see someone creatively (not to mention intelligently) lampooning it! The last comment quoted in the article is actually profound challenge to believers everywhere, one that might have to make an appearance in my sermon on Sunday, given that the title is, “Following Jesus, Literally.”

Jesus, who “only took the job to please his Dad,” said that to be a savior “you had to take up your cross and follow him,” Colbert said. “Well, to me, it’s easier to take up your remote control and follow me.”