"Cos and Effect: Cosby's 'Joking' About Sin"

First off, let me state that Bill Cosby WAS guilty of rape if even ONE of his fifty-plus accusers was telling the truth.  And as much as I used to like Cosby, I also believe the charges about him because of what I consider damning evidence from his OWN mouth.

You see, sometime in the past few years I read that one of Cosby's comedy albums had a routine where he joked about drugging women and exploiting them.  This album was released in the 1960s before Cos really, REALLY hit it big and right around the time some of his accusers say he first acted out this perverse fantasy.

Proverbs 14:9 says "Fools make a mock at sin" and Cos showed himself to be, in God's eyes, a fool by entertaining sin to the point that he JOKED about it....on a wax recording that thousands heard, no less. One wonders if his audience would have laughed at his "Spanish Fly" routine if they could see that, 50 years later, he is getting time in jail for essentially acting out what he joked about.

It's interesting that ANOTHER comedian, a few years ago, stated that Cos was a rapist in one of HIS comedy routines and this led to a new examination of that horrible, once unthinkable possibility. I cannot help but see the hand of God in this Providence, and the lesson seems to point back to COSBY'S joke which got him going down the path to pain for many women and shame for HIM. Was Cosby emboldened by the laughter and applause he got for that fateful routine??

As we listen to comedians, we must be careful that we don't "endorse" sins that some make light of.  We may be aiding them, and ourselves, down a path of accepting, then embracing, sin by laughing at that which should sadden us.  The Bible says our hearts are deceitful and sin is ALSO....it can start with the pleasure of "innocent" laughter and end up with a Guilty Verdict and shame beyond belief.