{"id":449,"date":"2007-09-10T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2007\/09\/the-gospel-according-to-foxworthy.html"},"modified":"2007-09-10T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T16:39:00","slug":"the-gospel-according-to-foxworthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2007\/09\/the-gospel-according-to-foxworthy.html","title":{"rendered":"The Gospel according to Foxworthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must confess that I enjoy Jeff Foxworthy and his kin.  I once heard him at a United Methodist annual conference meeting where I was speaking, and he brought down the house with his &#8220;you might be a United Methodist if&#8230;.&#8221; parody of his famous &#8220;you might be a redneck if&#8230;&#8221;  routine.  Jeff is a good Georgia Methodist who has increasingly borne witness to his faith, all the while touring the country with the likes of Larry the Cable guy. <\/p>\n<p>He and two other comics were having a joke off on Comedy Central the other night, and I happened to find them.   Foxworthy was winning hands down, but they were all pretty funny.  It made me think how unique and particular &#8216;rednecks&#8217; are to American culture.  Yes every culture has its boors, and slobs, and the great unwashed and uneducated.  But it takes a special country to produce rednecks.    The interesting thing is that you don&#8217;t even have to be a Southerner to be a redneck, although apparently it helps \ud83d\ude42    I am awaiting Foxworthy&#8217;s classic &#8220;Rednecks get Religion:  the Gospel for Rednecks&#8221;, but alas it has yet to see the bookstores.   <\/p>\n<p>In the meanwhile&#8230;.  I leave you with two  tidbits from  his recent  general and Methodist routines&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You might be a redneck, if you sit at the breakfast table and stare at that can of orange juice for more than a minute, because it says on the label&#8212; Concentrate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You might be a Methodist if those cross and flame boxer shorts are on your wish list for next Christmas!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>God bless Jeff&#8230;. he puts the T back in tacky, and the R back in redneck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must confess that I enjoy Jeff Foxworthy and his kin. I once heard him at a United Methodist annual conference meeting where I was speaking, and he brought down the house with his &#8220;you might be a United Methodist if&#8230;.&#8221; parody of his famous &#8220;you might be a redneck if&#8230;&#8221; routine. 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