In 2 Corinthi\u00adans 6:14, Paul explains why Chris\u00adtians should\u00adn\u2019t get roman\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly entan\u00adgled with some\u00adone who does\u00adn\u2019t share their deep\u00adest val\u00adues. Every year it seems that I have to ham\u00admer this into stu\u00addents\u2019 heads. They\u2019re involved in fool\u00adish rela\u00adtion\u00adships and they just can\u2019t get (or refuse to get) why it\u2019s a bad idea.<\/p>\n
So I was thrilled to stum\u00adble upon Chris Rock<\/a>\u2019s Big\u00adger and Black\u00ader spe\u00adcial on Com\u00ade\u00addy Cen\u00adtral. He had a bit that expressed the under\u00adly\u00ading log\u00adic beau\u00adti\u00adful\u00adly (if you are famil\u00adiar at all with Mr. Rock\u00ad\u2019s work you will be unsur\u00adprised to hear that I have edit\u00aded the text slight\u00adly for fam\u00adi\u00adly-friend\u00adli\u00adness):<\/p>\n \nWhat\u00adev\u00ader you into, your woman got\u00adta be into, too, and vice ver\u00adsa\u2026 or the [thing] ain\u2019t gonna work. lt ain\u2019t gonna work.<\/p>\n That\u2019s right. lf you born-again, your woman got\u00adta be born-again, too.<\/p>\n lf you a crack\u00adhead, your woman got\u00adta be a crack\u00adhead, too\u2026 or the [thing] won\u2019t work.<\/p>\n You can\u2019t be like, \u201dl\u2019m going to church, where you going?\u201d \u201dHit the pipe!\u201d<\/p>\n That rela\u00adtion\u00adship ain\u2019t going nowhere.<\/p>\n Two crack\u00adheads can stay togeth\u00ader for\u00adev\u00ader.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Stu\u00addents take note. When stand-up the\u00adolo\u00adgians and stand-up come\u00addi\u00adans make the same argu\u00adments you know your posi\u00adtion is inde\u00adfen\u00adsi\u00adble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 2 Corinthi\u00adans 6:14, Paul explains why Chris\u00adtians should\u00adn\u2019t get roman\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly entan\u00adgled with some\u00adone who does\u00adn\u2019t share their deep\u00adest val\u00adues. Every year it seems that I have to ham\u00admer this into stu\u00addents\u2019 heads. They\u2019re involved in fool\u00adish rela\u00adtion\u00adships and they just can\u2019t get (or refuse to get) why it\u2019s a bad idea. So I was \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cChris Rock gets it\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-6U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}