Stephen Colbert on Tuesday turned from politics to policy, focusing on House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has criticized Ryan’s budget for cutting deeply into programs that help the needy. And President Obama called the budget “thinly veiled social Darwinism.”
“How dare you, sir, these are Republicans, it is thinly veiled social creationism,” Colbert said on Tuesday.
Ryan took his message to Georgetown University in Washington to defend his budget, saying, “I suppose there are some Catholics who for a long time have thought they had a monopoly of sorts. Not exactly on heaven, but on the social teachings of our church.”
Sadly, Colbert responded, “Catholicism is full of these people who think they have a monopoly on interpreting its social teachings. They’re called bishops. But these guys don’t count. Bcause the Catholic church isn’t known for its centralized authority. Catholicism is more of a dialogue, everybody just tosses in their two cents and decides what the Bible means for themselves. I can’t remember who started that, it was either Pope Martin Luther or Pope Henry VIII.
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