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Count the amount of answers which just say "Because he had to die for our sins."
This question is clearly a joke and yet Christians appear to see it as just another chance to preach.
2007-10-05 03:49:54 · 26 answers · asked by Mustapher Crap 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They have it surgically removed at a young age.
2007-10-05 03:55:26 · answer #1 · answered by darwinsfriend AM 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋
I think Christians have a great deal of humor when they find something that's actually funny; you attempted levity on a deeply personal issue, namely someone's religious convictions. We're as sensitive to that (and understandably so) as you might be to hearing incessant jokes about your mother. "Funny" is going to be in the eye of the beholder. I suspect you'd preach a bit too (and rightly so) defending the honor of your mother....that wouldn't make you humorless, it would just mean that not everything is suitable fodder for laughter.
2007-10-05 10:58:41 · answer #2 · answered by Captain S 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You'll find no preaching here--that's just not a funny joke--no offense meant to you if you think it is. Some jokes just aren't funny you know, and I think I'm a Christian with a great sense of humor--I laugh quite often about things that are actually funny. As to why some Christians might be offended, that's simply common sense--black people don't like black jokes, Polacks don't like Polack jokes, gay people don't like gay jokes--each person's sense of humor is as different as their personalities. :))
2007-10-05 11:03:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have several christian friends who're real cut-ups. You can't put the whole of one group of people into a single category.
However, I would make this comment. While I am not a Christian, and I do not believe in the existence of any mysterious invisible superbeing, or any of the rest of what goes along with such belief, I find no humor in mocking those who DO believe, genuinely, honestly, and sincerely, in everything they were ever indoctrinated into believing from childhood, or who came to believe later in their lives.
They have a right to think and believe as they do, and I respect their perspective as I wish others to respect mine.
2007-10-05 10:57:55 · answer #4 · answered by sharmel 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yo M-D. We had the funny bones beat out of us a long time ago.
Maybe they didn't get to the "persons of faith" section in your diversity class at school yet.
How funny do Poles feel are the jokes about Polish people?
2007-10-05 10:54:00 · answer #5 · answered by Goethe's Ghostwriter 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christians do have a sense of humor, but they don't focus especially on atheists and agnostics. In fact many of them are focused upon themselves and some beliefs. Read the following examples, please.
Cast Out of Eden
Q. What excuse did Adam give to his children as to why he no longer lived in Eden?
A. "Your mother ate us out of house and home."
Missing Jesus
It was Palm Sunday, and the family's 6-year old son had to stay home from church because of strep throat. When the rest of the family returned home carrying palm branches, the little boy asked what they were for. His mother explained, "People held them over Jesus' head as he walked by."
"Wouldn't you know it," the boy fumed. "The one Sunday I don't go to church, and Jesus shows up!"
Belly Buttons Explained
Q: How do babies get their belly buttons?
A: When God finishes making little babies, He lines them all up in a row. Then he walks along in front of them. He pokes each one in the tummy with His finger and says, “You’re done…you’re done…you’re done…”
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2007-10-05 11:09:49 · answer #6 · answered by gatita 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The question is not a joke. It's a serious point that has been brought up many times. If you were in excruciating pain and you could call at your whim a legion of angels to kill those hurting you, what would stop you? And, in his case, the answer is exactly what those CHRISTIANS kept annoyingly saying. He had a greater mission to accomplish which was more important than his own life. Namely, saving humanity.
2007-10-05 10:54:38 · answer #7 · answered by David 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
considering all the disrespectful questions posted here....
why would we think that was a joke???the A team was dorky...
I have a very good and warped sense of humor.....
at this moment there are glow in the dark cockroach's in my 19 yr old son's underwear drawer and a rubber rat hiding in the cookie jar....
2007-10-05 12:48:30 · answer #8 · answered by coffee_pot12 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Find something funny and I will laugh. Until then it is just disrespectful. I can laugh at a good joke though, I have plenty of practice.
2007-10-05 11:06:48 · answer #9 · answered by mrglass08 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is seen as an attack of sarcasm not a joke. It looked like there were many funny answers to me so you are going to get some who get it and some who don't
2007-10-05 10:56:28 · answer #10 · answered by budleit2 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you spent so much of your life following and reading the teachings of a book that was clearly written by man, altered by man to achieve what man (men) wants the outcome to be, why would they see that as funny.
They have been tricked for 2000 years, that's not really a laughing matter.
poor, sad bible thumpers.
2007-10-05 10:55:41 · answer #11 · answered by brettj666 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋