Religion and humor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How was copper wire invented?

2 Jews fighting over a penny !

Yeah, that one crossed the line from religious humor into racist.

The Jewish race? Never heard of it. That's the funniest joke so far!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How was copper wire invented?

2 Jews fighting over a penny !

Yeah, that one crossed the line from religious humor into racist.

The Jewish race? Never heard of it. That's the funniest joke so far!

You may not accept that Jews are a race (and I agree), but to claim you never heard of it requires an incredible ignorance of history.

[Anonymous]

I am the OP, and just for the record, my intent was not a thread of religious humor, although as a believer in evolution and as one who enjoys a good joke, I have no complaints. But all I was wondering was whether there is anything about atheism that believers find either funny or deserving of parody.

My example of the elements jumping together to form Einstein was an attempt to see atheism through the eyes of a believer and make a joke about it. Of course, the "joke" was really about evolution rather than atheism, and admittedly a bit lame. But the "all dressed up and noplace to go" joke furnished a much better example -- thanks for that one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am the OP, and just for the record, my intent was not a thread of religious humor, although as a believer in evolution and as one who enjoys a good joke, I have no complaints. But all I was wondering was whether there is anything about atheism that believers find either funny or deserving of parody.

My example of the elements jumping together to form Einstein was an attempt to see atheism through the eyes of a believer and make a joke about it. Of course, the "joke" was really about evolution rather than atheism, and admittedly a bit lame. But the "all dressed up and noplace to go" joke furnished a much better example -- thanks for that one.

I'll bite. I already contributed a joke about Episcopalians and forks.

What stumps me is, so many atheists themselves seem so humorless. It's like many of you are more obsessed with religion than we are, and so you think it's your "mission" to derail every conversation about religion with your finger-wagging. Maybe someone should make a joke about humorless atheists.

As for the FSM -- so friggen' lame! Do any if you actually think it's still funny, I mean apart from the preteen who keeps making FSM jokes in that other thread? See, the problem is, the FSM joke has been beaten to death. In the spirit of repetition so familiar to FSM worshipped, let me repeat: beaten to death. It's like your toddler who keeps repeating the same booger joke - you want to scream, you atheists need to get some new material!

[Anonymous]

When the Pope went to Ireland, all the religious - the priests, nuns, etc. -were arguing what nationality, Our Lord Jesus Christ, would have been had he not been Jewish. Unable to come to agrement, thry took their argument to the Holy Father. "What nationality could Our Lord have been?" They asked. "Easy," replied the Pope. "He would have been Irish. Who else do you know would be 33, single and still living with his mother!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am the OP, and just for the record, my intent was not a thread of religious humor, although as a believer in evolution and as one who enjoys a good joke, I have no complaints. But all I was wondering was whether there is anything about atheism that believers find either funny or deserving of parody.

My example of the elements jumping together to form Einstein was an attempt to see atheism through the eyes of a believer and make a joke about it. Of course, the "joke" was really about evolution rather than atheism, and admittedly a bit lame. But the "all dressed up and noplace to go" joke furnished a much better example -- thanks for that one.

I'll bite. I already contributed a joke about Episcopalians and forks.

What stumps me is, so many atheists themselves seem so humorless. It's like many of you are more obsessed with religion than we are, and so you think it's your "mission" to derail every conversation about religion with your finger-wagging. Maybe someone should make a joke about humorless atheists.

As for the FSM -- so friggen' lame! Do any if you actually think it's still funny, I mean apart from the preteen who keeps making FSM jokes in that other thread? See, the problem is, the FSM joke has been beaten to death. In the spirit of repetition so familiar to FSM worshipped, let me repeat: beaten to death. It's like your toddler who keeps repeating the same booger joke - you want to scream, you atheists need to get some new material!

I think if popular culture is anything to go by, it's pretty clear atheists and agnostics are a Hell of a lot funnier than "people of Faith". The sad nun video posted upthread notwithstanding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am the OP, and just for the record, my intent was not a thread of religious humor, although as a believer in evolution and as one who enjoys a good joke, I have no complaints. But all I was wondering was whether there is anything about atheism that believers find either funny or deserving of parody.

My example of the elements jumping together to form Einstein was an attempt to see atheism through the eyes of a believer and make a joke about it. Of course, the "joke" was really about evolution rather than atheism, and admittedly a bit lame. But the "all dressed up and noplace to go" joke furnished a much better example -- thanks for that one.

I'll bite. I already contributed a joke about Episcopalians and forks.

What stumps me is, so many atheists themselves seem so humorless. It's like many of you are more obsessed with religion than we are, and so you think it's your "mission" to derail every conversation about religion with your finger-wagging. Maybe someone should make a joke about humorless atheists.

As for the FSM -- so friggen' lame! Do any if you actually think it's still funny, I mean apart from the preteen who keeps making FSM jokes in that other thread? See, the problem is, the FSM joke has been beaten to death. In the spirit of repetition so familiar to FSM worshipped, let me repeat: beaten to death. It's like your toddler who keeps repeating the same booger joke - you want to scream, you atheists need to get some new material!

I think if popular culture is anything to go by, it's pretty clear atheists and agnostics are a Hell of a lot funnier than "people of Faith". The sad nun video posted upthread notwithstanding.

No, it's not clear at all that atheists are funnier. Keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better. But maybe also take a look at your own take-no-prisoners writing style, if you want to see a toxic combination of aggression and humorlessness!

[Anonymous]

^^ PS, I provided the atheist joke about the fly in the soup above. I found it with Google but it took me a while. You guys really aren't very funny!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got into a little trouble in another thread, unintentionally offending somone with a joke involving the flying spaghetti monster. http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/15/343778.page#4326266

I think there is an interesting question here, which I will raise even though I risk starting a thread that may eventually offend some. I think we atheists make fun of religion much more than believers make fun of atheism. Am I wrong about that, and if not, is it worth considering the asymmetry? Are you believers nicer than us, or is there just less to make fun of? And please try not to take offense at this, but do believers see just a little humor in some things about religion, such as the big guy with the white beard flying through the sky in the Sistine Chapel to touch life into Adam's finger, or a wafer turning people into Savior-munchers? Offhand, all I think of to make fun of in atheism is the idea of a bunch of chemicals, purely by chance, jumping up and forming cells, and those cells deciding to join together to form a worm, a fish, or Albert Einstein.

Anyone else loony enough to see humor in this stuff?

The thing is, that is science, not atheism. They are not actually the same.

I am Catholic and am very happy to laugh at jokes about my religion if they are clever and not intended to be malicious. I don't think I know any atheist jokes, but I do like the one about the dyslexic agnostic.

[Anonymous]

The one who didn't believe in dog?

[Anonymous]

What do you call a sleepwalking nun?

A roamin' Catholic.

[Anonymous]

Here is the thing, I think most atheists - and for that matter many believers -do not truly understand what is really meant when a believer - who is well read and steeped in the faith -means when s/he says God. It is not a being living up in the clouds or beyond the clouds somewhere. When we speak of God, we mean something infinitely deeper and complex. As Fr. Robert Barron writes in his Word on Fire blog, in the theological tradition, God is not a being in the world, one object, however supreme, among many. The maker of the entire universe cannot be, himself, an item within the universe, and the one who is responsible for the nexus of causal relations in its entirety could never be a missing link in an ordinary scientific schema. Thomas Aquinas makes the decisive point when he says that God is not ens summum (highest being) but rather ipsum esse (the sheer act of being itself). God is neither a thing in the world, nor the sum total of existing things; he is instead the unconditioned cause of the conditioned universe, the reason why there is something rather than nothing. Accordingly, God is not some good thing, but Goodness itself; not some true object but Truth itself; not some beautiful reality, but Beauty itself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is the thing, I think most atheists - and for that matter many believers -do not truly understand what is really meant when a believer - who is well read and steeped in the faith -means when s/he says God. It is not a being living up in the clouds or beyond the clouds somewhere. When we speak of God, we mean something infinitely deeper and complex. As Fr. Robert Barron writes in his Word on Fire blog, in the theological tradition, God is not a being in the world, one object, however supreme, among many. The maker of the entire universe cannot be, himself, an item within the universe, and the one who is responsible for the nexus of causal relations in its entirety could never be a missing link in an ordinary scientific schema. Thomas Aquinas makes the decisive point when he says that God is not ens summum (highest being) but rather ipsum esse (the sheer act of being itself). God is neither a thing in the world, nor the sum total of existing things; he is instead the unconditioned cause of the conditioned universe, the reason why there is something rather than nothing. Accordingly, God is not some good thing, but Goodness itself; not some true object but Truth itself; not some beautiful reality, but Beauty itself.

Thanks, PP, for this thoughtful post. In simpler terms, the idea of God as a grandfather with a white beard is something for children, as Paul puts it nicely.

[Anonymous]

Where do the father, son and the holy ghost fit in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where do the father, son and the holy ghost fit in?

There was a recent thread on this: http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/336480.page.