In Reply to: I think sacredness posted by lydia on January 06, 2007 at 17:36:16:
Were they making fun of Christ, or were they taking a popular, cliched image of Jesus and spoofing on it? I don't see how someone can make fun of Christ, but if someone wants to do it, I'm not going to get upset about it. Some people (i.e., the Romans) have already done the worst possible things imaginable to the man Jesus, and he lives on in us as Christ, the Son of God. Don't you see the inrony in that? The one person known for being despised, rejected, and ridiculed is the same one we worship as the Son of God? Talk about a joke! If our faith is false, the joke's on us. I can handle laughing at my foolishness in this matter. And if our faith is true, who is the joke on?
I believe the gift of laughter comes straight from God, the ultimate Holy Fool.
When it comes to making fun of my mother, well, I see the earth and the life it sustains as being sacred. How do you mock or make fun of the earth or life? It's not funny what's happening to the environment. Climate change and mass extinction of species isn't funny. But I would probably laugh at jokes about it, precisely because the sitation is so painful and distressing to me.