Lin

Maybe I’m nit-picking, but a cock ring and a penis piercing are not the same thing, so he kind of lost me on that analogy. 😛
Anonymous

Some women are religious too.
Tim Best

I liked this, it’s an expansion on that line “Religion should be treated like your genitals: don’t show it in public and don’t shove it down anyone’s throat.”
aimee eisiminger

Thank you…..keep it to yourself.
Riptide

I don’t think anyone should be able to bill themselves as a comedian without being, you know, *funny*. It was a decent rant and all, except that it seems he’s endorsing an end to the conversation that’s just beginning and trying to say that religion should “just be a private matter”, with which I disagree very strongly–religious beliefs affect many people very negatively, and pointing that out should not be considered nearly as rude and offensive to the human spirit as propping those beliefs up with silent assent.
If everyone “kept it to themselves” (and their children), we would only be sublimating the problem, not eliminating it…much like racism doesn’t disappear when people stop talking about it, religious excesses do not, either. I’ve seen with my own eyes some of the abuses religious people justify with their belief, and heard of much worse throughout history and right now in various places in Africa and the Middle East. The answer to these abuses isn’t to get the abusers to stay silent and take to the shadows in shame–it is to answer them as publicly as they preach, to increase speech, not decrease it.
Riptide

I don’t think anyone should be able to bill themselves as a comedian without being, you know, *funny*. It was a decent rant and all, except that it seems he’s endorsing an end to the conversation that’s just beginning and trying to say that religion should “just be a private matter”, with which I disagree very strongly–religious beliefs affect many people very negatively, and pointing that out should not be considered nearly as rude and offensive to the human spirit as propping those beliefs up with silent assent.
If everyone “kept it to themselves” (and their children), we would only be sublimating the problem, not eliminating it…much like racism doesn’t disappear when people stop talking about it, religious excesses do not, either. I’ve seen with my own eyes some of the abuses religious people justify with their belief, and heard of much worse throughout history and right now in various places in Africa and the Middle East. The answer to these abuses isn’t to get the abusers to stay silent and take to the shadows in shame–it is to answer them as publicly as they preach, to increase speech, not decrease it.
Anonymous

Some women have genital piercings too
Paddy Reddin

Why is he shouting? Plus, maybe he’d feel better if he actually inhaled from time to time.
Peter Mahoney

This is sort of an angry rant, which is great as rants go.

But for a funnier, catchy tune…. this reminds me of the hilarious YouTube video song: “Keep your Jesus off my Penis”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHjsaEK4vnw
stellaluna

and don’t wave it in kids’ faces
Anonymous

Yes, but not in their penis.
lowspark13

Good analogy and all, but as a piercing nerd I’m cringing slightly at ‘cock ring’ and ‘the necklace it’s wearing’. Oh well at least he didn’t say ‘prince albert’
MacCrocodile

A cock ring and a genital piercing are not the same thing.
bigjohn756

I don’t think that you are nit-picking. A cock ring and a piercing are completely different things. A cock ring is useful sometimes, whereas, a piercing is always useless.
Dona Lynette Stewart

I say, my Jesus, can out cuss, and out gross you all.