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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (4922)	12/14/2000 2:06:20 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 28931

I believe we call it color-challenged comedy now.

To: epicure who wrote (4922)	12/14/2000 3:48:52 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

That's something I've never thought of. Is it true that there is no example of humor in the Bible? Does anyone in it ever laugh, does anyone know? If so, at what do they laugh? Of course humor is to a surprising degree culture-specific. If you spend time in a culture very different from your own you will find yourself laughing in a room of uncomprehending people and sitting in uncomprehending silence among laughing ones. Irony, for example, is not a universal comic element. Even within our own culture, there are subcultures "tone deaf" to irony. So maybe you're right, and there are passages in the Bible intended to provide comic relief, but we don't recognize them. An example might be God sending the bears to eat up the children because they teased that bald prophet. Maybe the idea of a benign, loving God doing such a thing is supposed to elicit guffaws. Like, "Yeah, right! God would do a thing like that!! ~HAHAHAHA!~"