I can’t count how many times I’ve been asked if I’ve seen the movie, The Hangover. More specifically, I can’t count how many Christians have asked me this question. Here is my short answer: No, I haven’t seen The Hangover, and I don’t want to.

How about my long answer? To learn what the movie is about search IMDB or just Google the movie if you don’t want to take my word for it, but really, you can. Here’s the condensed version.

Some friends jet off to Vegas for a ‘traditional’ bachelor party as one of the friends is days away from his wedding day—after some of the guys have to lie to their future wives about their destination, that is. While there they drink too much, use drugs, pass out, marry strippers, and lose the husband-to-be.

Get it?
Hilarity ensues! Why do people with working moral compasses find this praiseworthy? I have an idea for a sequel. “The Stickup” The fun-loving lads can rob a local convenience store and shoot the store owners in the faces. Then we can follow them around as they, hilariously of course, try to cover up what they’ve done in time to get home for dinner.

How about a trilogy? I’m torn, which would be more funny of a theme for a final followup? “The Night of Adultery,” “The Gangrape,” or “The Child Abuse.”

Yeah yeah, these all sound cruel and unfunny, but that’s just details. These aren’t real people after all. I mean, if drug use, alcohol abuse, the objectification of women and premarital sex can be funny, they why not the others?

Seriously, though. Aren’t Christians supposed to hate all sin? Wouldn’t it go without saying that we should not find amusement in it?