Thursday, May 28, 2015
Asshole has a point
Some predictable anti-theist asshole writes that the Old and New Testament, though full of stories and parables, don't seem to have any humor.
Asshole may have a point. Though humor is always culture-specific, some types of humor cross boundaries fairly well. When you read the collected oral 'scriptures' of Western Hemisphere tribes, from Eskimos to Osages, you find a lot of recognizable humor that still works. Trickster characters, mistaken identities. The scriptures of the Palestine tribes, both Old and New Testament, lack such stories.
However! When you consider the modern output of the same Old Testament people, it's equally humorless by the same standards. I tried to watch shows like Seinfeld and Letterman because they were supposed to be "funny". I found nothing but repeated assertions of arrogance and superiority and imperial nastiness. Bullying.
Those shows reduce to:
"I can do this because I'm rich and fashionable. You cannot do this because you are poor and dumb and hopeless. LOSER LOSER LOSER LOSER LOSER NYAH NYAH NYAH NYAH."
King David can violate all of God's laws because he's rich and powerful. Same as King Dave.
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