No doubt Jesus laughed a lot

– Soul Fuel, ch. 21, Bear Grylls

Can we keep it that simple please? Not wrap it up in happiness/joy/“really-fun-guy”. He laughed. I mean I like and understand the good intentions of happiness and Joy but then there’s lots of questions about what is happiness and joy. Laughing, is an image we can all hold in our heads. There’s laughing with someone rather than at someone, but again I think we can all separate those quite clearly. I fully believe that Jesus laughed with people and probably laughed at himself.

Somehow, I can’t picture Jesus laughing. I don’t think I’ve seen him doubled over, tears streaming down his cheeks laughing. Couldn’t Michelangelo have painted that? Why do we have Rodin’s Thinker and not not a beautiful bronze statue of Jesus the Joker?

I took a photo of The Thinker’s arse. Would Jesus approve?

Did he like fart jokes? Did he have good comedy timing? Would he have laughed at the Life of Brian? Would he snigger if someone said “Biggus diccus”?

Maybe practical jokes were his thing. Was his water-wine trick his only party trick?

Then why, if he laughed so much, and I agree he probably did, is almost everyone from the church so boring and serious? Why the robes? Why the upset if someone heckles your chosen God?

My current guess is that comedians are much closer to heaven than most of the clergy.

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