Monday, February 13, 2012

Jesus and Irreverent Religious Humor

Seeing as you're all immersed in the first chapter of Crossan's Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, I thought I would kick off the unit with this:



This image exemplifies the wider contemporary phenomenon of irreverent humor in regards to religion. Another example is the film Dogma. I'm sure you can think of numerous other examples without my help.

What do people think of this? Is this belittling religion, which is at least in part humanity's attempt to connect with some higher good? Or does it make the (often frightening) phenomenon of religious experience less intimidating? Is there a right way and a wrong way to use irreverent humor? (Please answer this on your blogs, not in the comments section of this post). 

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