{"id":1922,"date":"2008-05-05T11:59:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T11:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/05\/lewis-black-he-of-funny-faith.html"},"modified":"2008-05-05T11:59:55","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T11:59:55","slug":"lewis-black-he-of-funny-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/05\/lewis-black-he-of-funny-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Black: He of Funny Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Black has founded his comedy career on his eruptions of screaming: the irrational outbursts of a rational man in a world gone mad. Religion is rich territory for his kind of humor, and as the title of his Comedy Central <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/shows\/root_of_all_evil\/index.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\">show<\/a>, &#8220;Lewis Black&#8217;s Root of All Evil,&#8221; indicates, he has a penchant for cosmic topics. So we&#8217;re looking forward to Black&#8217;s second <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Me-Little-Faith-Lewis-Black\/dp\/1594489947\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1209747022&#038;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">book<\/a>, &#8220;Me of Little Faith.&#8221; It&#8217;s not clear how his yelling on spiritual matters will translate to the written page, but if you want a taste of his approach to the divine, catch the YouTube clip below of him yelling about the religious inconsistencies of non-professionals like politicians and Gentiles. 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