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A screengrab of Dr. Colbert contemplating what kind of god the market would be, "The Colbert Report", September 29, 2008.

At first he considers the market would be like the Judeo-Christian god, but then realizes it is more like a blindly vengeful god with a thousand hungry mouths, who comes in the form of a winged serpent to destroy the universe with a black flame, like an ancient God of wrath.