He doesn't "not like" Christians. Evidence points to his liking Steven Colbert, who goes to Catholic Church every Sunday.

Also, yeah, Christian pop culture is awful. But religion in general, and Christianity in particular, has inspired some of the finest music and literature ever created. It ain't the fault of the Bible.

The fault lies within the sanitized, commercialized version of God and faith that is being promulgated by a certain type of evangelical/charismatic/fundam­entalist nexus of believers. We have people ripping phone books for Jesus out there, going from church to church saying God is giving them the power to rip phone books. This is promise of faith? This is the metaphor for the resurrection? God's abiding love for us? Srsly?

I've seen the phone-book rippers. It merits pointing out that the purpose of that group is to show that being religious/faithful/christian, does not automatically mean being weak. Their goal is to show that very strong people are also christians. It is a continuation of the pop culture message, that you can be a good christian and still rock, or rap, or paint, or be buff, in shape, popular. While I think that it is both overdone and done wrong, I am for anything that lifts the self-esteem of our youths. Reguardless of their religious or cultural backrounds.

Not so bad a thing, it just fails to be what it should be. Rather like our government. Great concept, poor execution.

Yeah, for some reason, a lot of people don't think it's very Christian to support an organization that abides child rape on a grand scale. Can't imagine why.

"it just fails to be what it should be. Rather like our government. Great concept, poor execution."

As in so much of pop culture, Xian and otherwise.

AllThatJazz:

Yeah, for some reason, a lot of people don't think it's very Christian to support an organization that abides child rape on a grand scale. Can't imagine why.

pretty sure if sexual abuse was all it took to get churches to stop supporting something there would be a lot of televangelists in more trouble

Televangelists have generally been caught cheating on their wives, not abusing children. Reprehensible behavior, but on a completely different level.