I was watching Saturday Night Live this weekend, and during the Weekend Update segment they had a story about a convent in Italy being closed after three nuns got into a fight. The joke they made was the God had responded by saying, “Ladieeeees, there’s enough of me to go around!”. Both my wife, who is Catholic, and I got a good hard laugh out of it. This morning I see this…
Rampaging Muslims have killed 10 Christians, injured 61 others, destroyed nine churches and displaced more than 500 people in northern Nigeria, according to eyewitnesses – all because Muslim high school students claimed a Christian student had drawn a cartoon of Islam’s prophet, Muhammad, on the wall of the school’s mosque. [source]
There is some dispute over whether the cartoon was actually drawn.
This brings me to my point. When you’re out shopping for a deity, be sure to tell them a few jokes. If your prospective God is so insecure that he can’t take a joke, you may want to keep looking.
I like to think that the Christian God would not only get the joke I saw on SNL, but would get a good laugh. For some reason, followers of Allah aren’t allowed to have jokes about their religion, which is sad. I think Islam could use a good laugh from time to time. And not an evil “we just blew up a coffee shop” kind of laugh.
