Comments on: Just Kidding

By: AliceL.

AliceL. — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:06:41 +0000

Silverman and Leah Dunham from Girls are silly twits who volunteered for Obama’s “War on Women” theme which unfortunately works. If you believe the pollsters, all single women worry about is having their birth control and abortions paid for by the government. As for the photo of Silverman with the young man, I suspect that very few men would want Silverman to be the mother of their baby.

By: Buzz Windrip

Buzz Windrip — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 06:13:21 +0000

On the contrary, Ellen, this kind of humor is essential in order for people who embrace death culture to numb themselves to the reality they’ve enabled. Read the section on everyday humor in Richard Grunberger’s “The 12-Year Reich: A Social History of Nazi Germany 1933-1945.” These jokes are hardly new, and just the thing the pro-choice crowd needs to justify this update of genocide against the unwanted. We’ve heard ‘em before.

By: Bret Lythgoe

Bret Lythgoe — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:21:51 +0000

Perhaps Silverman and other atheists should have a discussion about abortion with fellow atheist Nat Hentoff. Mr. Hentoff is one of the most courageous people on the planet, and has never deviated from the prolife position. he might explain to her, and the other atheists who think abortion is “funny,” why injustice is not funny. That’s why decent people don’t laugh at racist jokes, for example.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:15:44 +0000

I am pro-choice and this is just wrong. The entire thing is in poor taste. Shame on them for showing their lack of class.

By: JDD

JDD — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:00:26 +0000

I don’t know Silverman’s character either, but she is giving apt demonstration of it.

By: JDD

JDD — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:57:44 +0000

I don’t know Gutfeld’s character. I find Gutfeld’s ‘jokes’ to be not worthy of repetition.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:51:56 +0000

George Carlin was far from the “thinking person’s” comedian that he was often hailed. His sketch on religiosity is case in point. He defended his atheism on the cliched grounds that if this broken world is the best God can do, then something is wrong. Yes, grave, inexcusable evil and injustice is rampant in this world–but whose fault is that, God’s or ours? For someone who touted freedom so much, Mr. Carlin had a difficult time accepting the reality that God gave his human creation’s–created in his creative image–free-will.

Furthermore, Carlin, Silverman, all the “shock” comedians really stand-out as reactionary–reactionaries to history’s only true revolution. The Christian purview of the human person is completely counter-cultural to our broken world. The revelation of the Paschal Mystery in history turned, and continues to turn, here and now, an upside-down world upside-down again, and thus right-side up. “Shock” comedy is desensitization to the shocking anchor of Hope cast into the wreck of every age, that redeems and offers true freedom to every age.

By: blacknwhite

blacknwhite — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:27:12 +0000

Yeah, I kno the person in the pic was not pregnant for real, but even to make light of such a thing is cruel and dark.

By: Steven P. Millies

Steven P. Millies — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:51:48 +0000

I’m not persuaded George Carlin’s suggesting abortion opponents act in bad faith is an abuse of his sense of humor in every case. Clearly there are plenty of cases where some people do act in bad faith.

For the rest–it is a coarse culture. I don’t find any of this to be a particular revelation. The question for people serious about Christian faith isn’t whether this is disgusting. Rather, just as some abortion opponents are insincere or mean-spirited, we know that abortion advocates can be the same. A good beginning, it seems to me, starts from this common ground. Sinfulness overtakes us all. No hearts or minds will be won by scolding people as though we’re always right and they’re always wrong. There are plenty of feet of clay on both sides of this argument. What will it take not to ‘win’ but to convert??

By: Kevin Hickson

Kevin Hickson — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:32:45 +0000

This is not humor. It is tasteless. Do their audiences laugh? That is scary.