In sum:
If the moral fabric of your religious beliefs are threatened by a 7-year-old, your beliefs are shit.

that we spawn so many petty control-freaks of the sort Stephen Colbert attributes to his sig Character:
cf.

City Arts & Lectures
Summer of Humor: Stephen Colbert

As part of the show's "Summer of Humor" rebroadcast series, City Arts and Lectures listens back to a conversation with actor and comic Stephen Colbert. It was January, 2006, during the early, heady days of "The Colbert Report" on Comedy Central - long before Colbert ever imagined he would one day take the helm of David Letterman's show. Colbert was interviewed by Tim Goodman, TV critic for the San Francisco Chronicle.

wherein he describes the consummate Ass he plays as, (among some great quips..) living the unexamined life.

..Can see: the Vanity license plate frame already: Indiana, the Unexamined-life State