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I remember being confused as a kid as to why God from the Bible didn't seem to have any humor. Something felt strange and weird about His humorlessness. Why was everything religious so serious all the time? I remember feeling like it was all missing some deep good thing.

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Aella

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now my spirituality is made out of a deep fount of delight (tickledness, comedy), and it feels very whole. In hindsight i wonder if some part of me had intuitions about the fount early on.

4:41 PM · Aug 28, 2022

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there’s a theory that the book of job is supposed to be a bible story parody which accidentally made it into the canon

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I guess we all have those intuitions. The fear-based dogma doesn't feel natural at all.

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Comedy arises out of the discrepancy between expectation and reality, the ideal and the actual. God, heaven, etc. isn’t “funny” because no such discrepancy exists in him. Comedy comes out of imperfection (the result of the fall)

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twitter.com/hormeze/status This is the way

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Jun 4, 2021

"A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter." - Alan Watts

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GK Chesterton ends his book Orthodoxy by suggesting that God conceals his “mirth” most of all because it was “too great” to reveal to men. That’s a convenient reason, but the sort that hardly works for any other lacking, seemingly obvious divine attribute.

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Is sin and forgiveness serious business? But if we are created in the image of God, then this should also include the full gamut of emotions.

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Yes! Now you’ve got it! Congrats on getting it.

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He is the fount of many blessings ( last time I saw that word—Christian hymn)

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same!

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One of my private beliefs that doesn’t translate very well is that true comedy is sacred. And not sacred as in solemn, but sacred as in profound. & even fart jokes can have a profundity to them if you get it right. But strangely few comedians seem to get it. Maybe I’m delusional

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God laughs at the plans of the wicked. If you mean the Bible is devoid of jokes, then yes you are correct. However, I believe God definitely has a sense of humor and as long as the jokes aren’t mean spirited I’m guessing they are just fine with God. Hell is real. That’s no joke.