Holy Book with a sense of humour......

[Arkwort]

Does your holy book have a sense of humour?

 

[MSizer]

I don't know how many authors intended them to, but they sure are good for a chuckle at times. My favourite story has got to be Lot of the O.T, who offered his virgin daughters to a mob of homosexual male rapists. Those two same daughters later each took advantage of him while he was drunk, on two different nights, and both became preganant by their own father (but of course he was too drunk to prevent it, so it's ok). That is some story.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

One of the holy books that influenced my spirituality was the Principia Discordia, so yes.

 

[Quagmire]

Mine starts out,
" In the Begining...
That is to say towards the begining...
A while back anyway..."

 

[Willamena]

Does your holy book have a sense of humour?

I like to think I do, yes.

 

[Hell's Bells]

Read it and find out.

 

[Riverwolf]

The story of how Ganesha got his elephant head is quite funny in a dark humor sort of way.

 

[ChristineES]

Did anyone ever read the Song of Songs (aka Song of Solomon)? I wonder how this love poetry was chosen to be a part of the Bible, but it's there and we can read God and symbolism in it. At least that is what they say.
Song of Songs 7:1 How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O prince's daughter! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman.

Song of Songs 7:8 I said, I will go up in the palm tree, I will take hold of its stalk. And please let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the smell of your nose like apples;

(God, please forgive me)

 

[Vultar]

I guess it depends on what you find humourous.

One book has a talking snake,
another claims to be good, but then has slaves in life and servents in heaven
still other books get people to do all sorts of silly rituals without the people realizing the real purpose (sort of like how the "Karate Kid" did chores to help teach Karate basics)

I find all these things humourous (then again, I amuse easily)

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I would rather have a bottle in front of me then a frontal lobotomy.....

 

[9Westy9]

no. Choosing between ham & pineapple pizza and pepperoni & mushroom pizza is serious business

 

[CynthiaCypher]

Does your holy book have a sense of humour?

All my Holy Books do...

The Boomer Bible

The Boomer Bible - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Book of Kinesis

Principia Discordia | the book of Chaos, Discord and Confusion | Fnord!

Tractates Cryptica Scriptura

Philip K. Dick's Exegesis: An Excerpt on Losing Touch With Reality

 

[Bob Dixon]

At some points, sure. Besides the huge amount of puns and wordplay (mostly untranslatable, unfortunately), it's got an entire book (see, it's a collection of books) within it dedicated to humour (and it's actually quite funny).

 

[Levite]

Does your holy book have a sense of humour?

Parts of it do. Parts, not so much. My holy book is a compendium of numerous works by many different authors over a very long period of time. So...some of them were able to be funny, some either weren't funny or weren't writing about humorous things.

 

[Bob Dixon]

Parts of it do. Parts, not so much. My holy book is a compendium of numerous works by many different authors over a very long period of time. So...some of them were able to be funny, some either weren't funny or weren't writing about humorous things.

Yep! But there's a wide range. On one extreme, you've got Esther (which is brilliantly funny at points) and on the extreme you've got Lamentations (the name speaks for itself).

 

[CynthiaCypher]

Yep! But there's a wide range. On one extreme, you've got Esther (which is brilliantly funny at points) and on the extreme you've got Lamentations (the name speaks for itself).

Yeah. And in the NT, Mark in particular the apostles are constantly doiing or saying dumb stuff as if they were Curly and Larry and Jesus is always getting exasperated like Moe!

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Nah, it's just a bunch of numbes... oh shiiii- this is a phone book.

 

[Jainarayan]

Yes, many parts of Hindu scriptures are good for a laugh. Especially parts dealing with Krishna. He is the consummate prankster, practical joker and mischief-maker.

Once, when he was a toddler, his foster mother caught him eating dirt by the handfuls. She reprimanded him and made him open his mouth to spit it out. But when he did so, he showed her the whole universe contained within himself. Mother Yashoda nearly fainted dead away.

On another occasion she couldn't keep him from wandering off. So she wrapped a rope around his belly and tied the ends to two trees. Did that stop Krishna? No, he just ran off pulling the trees down.

The story of Shiva's and Parvati's marriage:

When Shiva asked for Parvati's hand in marriage from her father, it was site unseen. Parvati's mother was eager to meet her new son-in-law. So when the groom's entourage approached, there was one deity more handsome than the last going ahead of Shiva. The mother-in-law thought surely that if each of Shiva's groomsmen were more handsome that the last, he must certainly be spectacularly handsome.

Menaka's [Parvati's mother] joy knew no bounds. If these were the servants, what was the master going to be like? She mistook Brahma, Vishnu and Brihaspati for Shiva, and each time Narada [a sage] told her that she was wrong. Where then was Shiva? Finally Shiva came and Narada pointed him out to Menaka. At the sight of her son-in-law, Menaka fell unconscious.

Shiva was surrounded by ghosts on all sides. The faces were fierce, their complexions were dark and they made a tremendous racket. Shiva himself rode on bull. He had three eyes, five faces and ten arms. He was smeared with ashes and the moon adorned his forehead. He was dressed in a tiger's skin and a garland of skulls hung around his neck. No wonder Menaka fainted.

When she recovered, she began to lament. She scolded Himalaya [Parvati's father], Narada and Parvati for her misfortune. Brahma, the other gods, and the sages tried to pacify Menaka. But to no avail.

I will not permit my daughter to be married to Shiva, Menaka said. I will give her poison instead. I will throw her into a well and kill her. I will chop her up into pieces with a weapon. I will hurl her into the sea. I will kill myself. I will get Parvati married to someone else. Not to Shiva. Parvit (sic) resolved, I shall not marry anyone other than Shiva. Is a jackal a fit replacement for a lion?

Vishnu then tried to pacify Menaka. But this did not succeed either. Fianlly (sic) Narada asked Shiva to display his beautiful form and Shiva obliged. This form is exhibited only to those who are very faithful to Shiva. Everyone was charmed by this beautiful form, even Menaka. His body shone like a thousand suns and a crown sparkled on his head. His clothes glittered and the lustre of his jewels put the stars to shame.

Menaka begged forgiveness for her foolishness and now there were no further obstacles to the marriage. Under Brahma's supervision, the marriage ceremony took place and Shiva and Parvati returned to Kailasa. [Shiva's divine home]

Shiv Puran Story

There have to be a bazillion more stories of the Hindu deities and their mischief.

 

[Jainarayan]

The story of how Ganesha got his elephant head is quite funny in a dark humor sort of way.

And I can just see Maa Parvati telling Lord Shiva to sleep on the couch, because until her son was restored to life, she'd have nothing to do with her husband. No lovin' for Lord Shiva that night!

 

[Bob Dixon]

Yeah. And in the NT, Mark in particular the apostles are constantly doiing or saying dumb stuff as if they were Curly and Larry and Jesus is always getting exasperated like Moe!

A pretty fair comparison, actually!
They weren't the brightest bunch, those guys (with a few exceptions, like Thomas in the Gospel of John). It's like a professor teaching a remedial elementary school class at times. The situations range from light-heartedly funny to fairly sad.

 

[F0uad]

Define Humour .

If your holy-book contains the dictated words of god and its funny then your god has humour and a human emotion/nature therefore he is human in some aspects.