Recent content by Lewis Black

Then, we definitely agree on at least one thing: the chief command is love, and I'll also agree that those Christians who miss that miss the core of Christian morality. It's just that I believe -- strongly -- that Christianity is at least as concerned with what Jesus did as it is with what...

Melon, if that's what you believe, why pretend otherwise? Ultimately, I don't care if you think I'm Elmer Fudd or Daffy Duck. It has no impact on whether I'm right that the central message of Christianity is both Jesus' command to love and His redemptive, sacrificial act of love -- and that...

You guess incorrectly. I saw the film a few hours before I dropped by. Maybe we saw two different films. The film I saw had flashbacks to the Sermon on the Mount and John's lengthy account of the Last Supper. In both flashbacks, Jesus taught love -- to love your enemies and to love one...

I too would like that question answered. In the oldest surviving creed of Christianity (1 Corinthians 15:3-8), what is emphasized is not any specific teaching, but Christ's death and resurrection. In that same chapter, Paul teaches that our faith hinges on the reality of the death and...

Did Rush imply that, or did you infer that? Who's really the racist? Let's say that someone says Jeff Foxworthy look like the typical mugshot (and that's not too unreasonable). Did that guy just imply that all criminals are white? If it weren't for my horse...

Did you just say that all criminals are black? If it weren't for my horse...

For the "who cares?" comment, I'm not sure what's so objectionable. I doubt Rush was suggesting that blacks should have less political power than other groups: every black has one vote and as a group they can organize into political organizations -- just like everyone else, from gun nuts to...

Let's ignore what I said about the KKK for a moment and focus on the NAACP and the NOW: Does criticizing the NAACP make you a racist? Does criticizing the NOW make you a sexist? No, and no. Yet, in terms of comments the demean women and minorities, the closest Rush Limbaugh has ever come --...

This is the comparison I'm making: The KKK focuses on a single demographic: whites. The NAACP focuses on a single demographic: blacks. The NOW focuses on a single demographic: women. Impugning the KKK isn't racist even though it focuses on a single race. Likewise, impugning the NAACP...

I've been listening -- rather frequently -- since 1988, so if you're arguing from experience, my experience trumps yours. (I have seen the argument that the fact I'm an actual listener somehow disqualifies my opinion -- as if the only people who could judge what this guy says are those who...

deep, in addition to the blacks and women that he supports, Rush's beliefs are also inconsistent with racism and sexism, as he doesn't believe that anyone should be judged by skin color or sex. If any mainstream political position today is racist, it is support for affirmative action, which...

Innocent until proven guilty? In this country? A claim the Admistration itself made, but no one ever substantiated it. Explain, then, his admiration for Margaret Thatcher (a woman), Clarence Thomas (a black), and Condi Rice (a black woman). Clarence Thomas also performed Rush's wedding...

Re: Re: The Best Of's -- bad decisions, long-term consequences. Of course those were great examples; otherwise I wouldn't have made them! If it weren't for my horse...

The documentary on "One" mentioned the Buffalo video and showed highlights, but I don't think the complete video is anywhere on the DVD. If it is, it's news to me -- very welcome news. If it weren't for my horse...

In the final analysis, I really question some of the decisions U2 made in releasing their two Best Of albums for the first decades:With plenty of time left on the disc, they truncate "Where the Streets Have No Name." The inexplicable lyric switch in "Mysterious Ways." (Has anyone come up with...