In 2 Corinthians 6:14, Paul explains why Christians shouldn\u2019t get romantically entangled with someone who doesn\u2019t share their deepest values. Every year it seems that I have to hammer this into students\u2019 heads. They\u2019re involved in foolish relationships and they just can\u2019t get (or refuse to get) why it\u2019s a bad idea.<\/p>\n
So I was thrilled to stumble upon Chris Rock<\/a>\u2019s Bigger and Blacker special on Comedy Central. He had a bit that expressed the underlying logic beautifully (if you are familiar at all with Mr. Rock\u2019s work you will be unsurprised to hear that I have edited the text slightly for family-friendliness):<\/p>\n \nWhatever you into, your woman gotta be into, too, and vice versa\u2026 or the [thing] ain\u2019t gonna work. lt ain\u2019t gonna work.<\/p>\n That\u2019s right. lf you born-again, your woman gotta be born-again, too.<\/p>\n lf you a crackhead, your woman gotta be a crackhead, 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 relationship ain\u2019t going nowhere.<\/p>\n Two crackheads can stay together forever. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Students take note. When stand-up theologians and stand-up comedians make the same arguments you know your position is indefensible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 2 Corinthians 6:14, Paul explains why Christians shouldn\u2019t get romantically entangled with someone who doesn\u2019t share their deepest values. Every year it seems that I have to hammer this into students\u2019 heads. They\u2019re involved in foolish relationships and they just can\u2019t get (or refuse to get) why it\u2019s a bad idea. So I was thrilled \u2026 Continue reading \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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"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}]}}