
Culture, Pro-life Movement, and Nashville (Jonathon Van Maren) | Ep. 396
Pints With Aquinas
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The Disappointment of Chris Rock's Stand Up Comedy
Conservative cultural commentators are getting it wrong on what comedians are doing when they say bring up abortion, says John Sutter. What I think they're doing actually is dulling moral sensibilities, because the big mistake that a lot of Christians and conservatives made with comedy is they misunderstood the way it's used. If you can make sin funny, it is automatically unserious. Sin cannot simultaneously be a joke. And something so horrifying that the son of God had to be nailed to a cross really to three people from it. It was disappointing to see, to say the least, to see what Prager had to say, which was essentially that if a man uses pornography to avoid adultery, that's not
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