"I'm not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh"
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The phrasing is carefully modest. “Not one for” softens the moral posture; it’s a Southern-style hedge that keeps him from sounding preachy. And “that one” is doing work, too: it isolates the offense as a particular instance rather than a worldview. He’s not recruiting you into cynicism, he’s confessing a lapse. The laugh becomes a reflex - involuntary, almost innocent - which lets him acknowledge irreverence without turning it into rebellion.
Culturally, the line sits in Freeman’s public persona: the voice of gravitas admitting to being tickled by something taboo. That contrast lands because audiences treat him like an authority figure, sometimes even a quasi-divine narrator. When that guy says a blasphemous moment got him, it grants permission. The subtext is less “religion is silly” than “even our deepest reverence has to contend with comedy,” and the honesty of that collision is what makes the sentence feel both mischievous and strangely humane.
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Freeman, Morgan. (2026, January 15). I'm not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-not-one-for-blaspheming-but-that-one-made-me-20575/
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Freeman, Morgan. "I'm not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-not-one-for-blaspheming-but-that-one-made-me-20575/.
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"I'm not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-not-one-for-blaspheming-but-that-one-made-me-20575/. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.











