It's an all-purpose joke made so that the religions of your choice can be plugged in.
Last night at a seder dinner at a friend's house I heard another atheist joke. I couldn't remember the joke just now, so looked on the web using key words, and there it was!
<<Sam is invited by his friend Mark to a meeting of a new religious group that combines faith with science. As the meeting begins, Sam realizes this is a bizarre "religion." Everything has come from nothing, it says, and everything is going toward nothing, therefore everyone and everything is nothing. The "Nihilo Master" leads the members in the ritual, and he unveils the meaning behind all of life and the source of everything, and that is, in the place behind the alter in which, in a Christian Church, would hang a crucifix-- a big ZERO. So Sam turns to Mark and asks, "Is nothing sacred?">>
Not awfully funny, but not offensive. I had told a great Jewish joke, and had actually typed the same joke out here a couple of days ago in reply to a post from Neocon but lost it in the aether and didn't feel like typing it again.
(I told the teller (a very religious Christian) that, for the record, atheists don't really believe life has no meaning, but only that its meaning resides in the human mind, not externally to it. I couldn't resist.)
BTW, this guy and his wife have been no-red-meat vegetarians for twenty years, and his wife told me that they no longer produced the enzyme that enabled them to digest meat. I've never heard of that. I've heard one stops producing lactase if one stops consuming dairy products, but I'd never heard it about meat. |
