Is there any humor in religion?

Question

We are all rascals so it's time for us to loosen up !!!

Answer 1

George Carlin

Answer 2

People have this odd idea that religious people can't have a laugh, they seem to think that to have humor, you have to degrade yourself. Why?

I don't think there is any humor in gambling with eternity. There is humor in so many aspects of life, but when you consider someone's eternal salvation, sin is no laughing matter.
You don't have to be uptight to be religious. Loosening up? In what way do you find people so stuffy? Is there no ability to relax, have a laugh and actually not have to degrade at the sametime?

At any rate, most people nowadays are loose, regardless of their religion, they say they believe, but don't practise it, nor do they avoid sinful behaviour. If that's being a rascal or loosening up? Heck, I'd rather either have no religion at all and be honest with my behaviour, or get serious and be faithful to it. And there is humor in religion as there is in life.

You can watch someone who is both inspiring, religious and extremely funny and you can watch someone else who thinks that humor just can't happen unless they're being degrading and limiting their humor basically to the human crotch.

So really religion doesn't dampen humor at all. People are just people, you are what you are. And your humor won't change just because you convert yourself to God, but you maybe more careful which way you use it. I've known many priests who had people in fits laughing, good priests (not the bad ones), very funny and yet you come out of it realising "Good grief, he didn't have to swear once, he didn't have to revert to the human private parts to get a laugh, can it be possible?".

Answer 3

Yep. Jesus' humor and wit was outrageously funny. The joke He made to the Pharisees about their attitude of making it nearly impossible for men to get into the kingdom of heaven because a poor widow woman couldn't give as much as they did with their riches was a good one. (One most tithers don't get the real meaning of.) He told them that first of all, He was the one who opened the door to the kingdom of heaven and secondly they were tripping out over things God considered straining knats while at the same time they missed the most important things about God's laws, including the very Messiah in their midst, that He called it swallowing camels. He was so brilliant in other responses that they decided not to ask Him any more questions! I find humor in the Bible all the time now that I understand it better as an adult and having been through abuses am able to recognize today's spiritual abusers are the same as those in the Bible and God will handle them the same way He always has. Now I smile and remember that no Balaam can curse me but what it will be reversed and the same measure that I'm misjudged will be measured right back and I cringe to think of when my siblings will suffer the rod of correction because I know what it feels like but it's God's business, not mine. I can't share the humor I use with the ex-husband who thinks he's a Christian. Sorry, that's private! We are instructed to be sober minded but Christians do have good clean fun. Easy to do when you have a clean conscience.

Answer 4

If I took this from a "religious" standpoint, how could I not say YES? If the premise is that god created everything, & humour is one of many human emotions, why wouldn't it be in religion? To those who say it's irreverant, I wonder why god wouldn't want us to be happy. I didn't interpret the question to in ANY way imply jesting or making fun of--just "loosening up" (as phrased) & this would be a refreshing change in R&S.

Edit: I don't believe the asker meant "joke," which would certainly be offensive to many. Just HUMOUR--which is a wonderful, healthy thing that can be shared with others.

Answer 5

Are you talking about the actual Biblical scriptures or how religious people act? For the latter, there is certainly humor. In the first, there is some humor. For instance when Jacob wrestles with God in the Old Testament, God cheats and touches Jacob's hip and dislocates it. Thats funny.

Watch Monty Python "Life of Brian" to see humor in how religious people act.

Answer 6

Humor is wasted on most religious people, because they're looking out at the world ,with frightened eyes, hiding inside some romantic stupor like a child with his teddy bear
They struggle constantly with the obvious truth that a moral, ethical,adult need not worry and fret over the destination of his soul.

Answer 7

Two boll weevils grew up in South Carolina. One went to Hollywood and became a famous actor. The other stayed behind in the cotton fields and never amounted to much. The second one, naturally, became known as the lesser of two weevils.

Two atoms are walking down the street and they run into each other. One says to the other, "Are you all right?" "No, I lost an electron!" "Are you sure?" Yeah, I'm positive!"

A guy goes to a psychiatrist. "Doc, I keep having these alternating recurring dreams. First I'm a tepee; then I'm a wigwam; then I'm a tepee; then I'm a wigwam. It's driving me crazy. What's wrong with me?" The doctor replies: "It's very simple. You're two tents."

And finally, There was a man who sent ten different puns to friends, in the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.

Answer 8

There could be.

I used to be religious. I grew up in the christian reformed church (to us the pope was a liberal) I learned the Bible inside and out to the point where I stumped a Jehovah Witness.

Then, after more study, I realized that either all this stuff is really made up by oral tradition over the ages, or God must have an incredible sense of humor.

So, there could be.....

Answer 9

Moses, Jesus, and another guy were out playing golf one day.

Moses pulled up to the tee and drove a long one. It landed in the
fairway but rolled directly toward a water trap. Quickly Moses raised
his club, the water parted and it rolled to the other side, safe and sound.

Next, Jesus strolled up to the tee and hit a nice long one directly
toward the same water trap. It landed directly in the center of the pond
and kind of hovered over the water. Jesus casually walked out on the
pond and chipped it up onto the green.

The third guy got up and sort of randomly whacked the ball. It headed
out over the fence and into on-coming traffic on a nearby street. It
bounced off a truck and hit a nearby tree. From there it bounced onto
the roof of a nearby shack and rolled down into the gutter, down the
downspout, out onto the fairway and right toward the same pond. On the
way to the pond, it hit a little stone and bounced out o ver the water,
onto a lily pad where it rested quietly. Suddenly, a very large bullfrog
jumped up on the lily pad and snatched the ball into his mouth. Just
then, an eagle swooped down and grabbed the frog and flew away. As they
pass over the green, the frog squealed with fright and dropped the ball,
which bounced right into the hole for a beautiful hole in one.

Moses turned to Jesus and said, "I hate playing with your Dad.

Answer 10

Sure!

Circumcision.

God "mooning" Moses on Mt. Sinai.

A virgin giving birth.

Choosing a bunch of Gallileean fisherman and a tax collector to forever change the world.

Jesus letting Peter sink when he too, tried to walk on water.

Jesus waiting for St. Thomas to doubt him BEFORE he walked through locked doors, into the room.

The name of the "Book of Revelation".