Comedians Are The New Preachers Now

Recently, YouTube recommended a video to me that was entitled: "Bill Burr Thinks Women Are Overrated." (Sometimes, content just wanders across your path.) For those of you who don't know, Bill Burr is a comedian.* Something that I've noticed in the last few years is just how much of a cultural commentator comedians are. Yes, they can make you laugh. But it is normally because they can pack a little bit of truth in with their joke that everyone recognizes and laughs at it. (At least good comedians do.) In his interview with Conan, he said that he misses two things: "Tougher parenting and evidence." Burr went on to mention just how bad it was by pointing out the crowd's reaction, "You feel how nervous everyone just got in here the fact that I just suggested due-process." He is right. On social media, it is so easy to jump onto someone or something and pass judgement without doing our due diligence, and looking into the subject matter.

The very saddening truth is that, you're hearing more truth from comedians like Bill Burr than many pulpits in the modern evangelical church today. Our culture needs to be getting harangued by the church today, rather than relying on the comedians to get their daily dose of true reality. (But until that point, this will do.)

*As a disclaimer, I do not know much about Bill Burr's career or personal life.

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