Stephen Colbert, who I have been assured is a devout Catholic and a serious Christian in the public square, was asked on his show by fellow Catholic comedian Jim Gaffigan what happens after death.

And in what is the easiest layup of an answer for a Christian, Colbert said ... this:

Here's what I picture ... More like a feeling. And the feeling is that when we die I think there is some continuance of some kind. But it's ... a dispersion of the self into some other greater being. And I don't have any other feelings beyond that.

Ahh yes, thank you Mr. Colbert for your very clear and concise description of the afterlife, which is very clearly rooted in a robust understanding of the biblical picture of death, judgment, heaven, hell, and the resurrection and restoration of all things.

So when Jesus told his disciples that God's "house" has "many rooms" and He was going there to prepare a place for them (John 14:2), or when Jesus said to the thief next to Him on the cross, "today you will be with me in paradise," he was just describing New-Age ideas of the self "dispersing" into "some other greater being"?

And all the Bible's verses about personal judgement, personal salvation, and personal bodily resurrection (Daniel 12:2, Matthew 25:46, John 3:16, Luke 23:43, Revelation 21:4-8, 2 Corinthians 5:1-8, Philippians 3:20-21, Matthew 22:23-32, Daniel 7:9-10, John 5:28-29, 1 Corinthians 15, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18) are just a "continuance of some kind" based on a "feeling"?

Tim Keller praised this guy as the model example of a Christian in the public square?