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.
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