The Ricky Gervais monologue at the Golden Globes has caught a lot of attention. Gervais earned 300K new followers on twitter the same night after the comedian’s bombastic roast. I don’t want to go over his jokes. Most of them were rated R and I am sure by now most of you have at least heard or watched his 8-minute diatribe against the liberal elites sitting elegantly and sipping luxuriously. The ire was almost immediate from the leftists. How dare someone criticize our way of being? Our lifestyle choices? Our wokeness? Our promiscuity? Our friendships?
Notably, Gervais found himself in the unlikely company of conservatives who stood up and cheered not for the nominees in that building, but the ability to ferociously attack evil in their very den.
It is a remarkable thing that atheists like Stephen Fry and Ricky Gervais and Bill Maher can speak truthfully to their fellow liberals. What gives them this ability is their loyalty to no god and no party. Now, their atheism will condemn them to an eternity of hell, but in the meanwhile, their atheism gives them the ability to condemn the hell out of shallow ideologies that pervade Hollywood.
Remember that Hollywood worships all sorts of gods, which is why they dread those who worship no god. Hollywood has a commitment to the gods of perversion and money and sex so they need to be cautious with their speech; they need to outwoke one another daily; they need to offer their petitions carefully, kneel before their gods consistently and watch out to not offend their fellow superstars whose gods may share identical agents.
Is it not interesting that in the Scriptures, Yahweh uses enemies of the Gospel to attack other enemies of the Gospel? The Babylonians, the Assyrians, crude atheists, and so on! The Church applauds Ricky because a God-denier took his bat and swung as hard as he could at the golden gods. The Church applauds Ricky because deep inside she knows that she should have been swinging. But it’s a lot easier to let pagans do our work. Remember that when God lets pagans antagonize pagans it’s usually a sign the Church is not doing her work.
My summary from the Ricky Gervais brouhaha is that we need more Christian monologues attacking evil; take away the crudeness and add winsomeness and gusto and the church can do a better job than a perverted atheist attacking perverted false gods.
We can’t all do that kind of work of rhetorical destruction in the house of Dagons, but we can all flee from those false gods that seduce us daily; we can all take a bat and swing at the empires of dirt with a heavy dose of faithfulness and hearty monologues of grace; we can all have more babies and raise an army of rhetoricians who can stand in their metaphorical pulpits and mock wickedness unswervingly.
Mighty cheers, saints! Keep swinging! Let’s outdo Ricky and teach him that our God mocks evil and destroys idols infinitely better!
