Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ the Godless

September 18, 2024 • 9:50 am

Today’s Jesus and Mo strip, called “laugh 2” is a resurrection, so to speak, from 2009. The artist is apparently still on holiday, but I doubt you’ve seen this one.  I wonder if religious bookstores have “humor” sections.  I know there are funny books about Jews, like books about Jewish jokes and, of course, Leo Rosten’s incomparable The Joys of Yiddish. (The latter book was given to me by my advisor when I graduated from college, along with Crow and Kimura’s Theoretical Population Genetics; I was told that these two books were all I needed to equip me for a career in population genetics. The field is, of course, heavily Jewish.)  But I digress.  Here the barmaid is laughing:

8 thoughts on “Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ the Godless”

  1. LOL

    There’s a book that’s pretty good:

    Zen Judaism
    David M. Bader
    Harmony Books, NY
    2002

    … I like the tagline For You, a Little Enlightenment.

    Mullah Nasruddin tales are pretty darn funny….. might be Islamic… not that that means anything…

    1. Nasruddin stories are in the Sufi tradition, and I believe that they have the same function as Zen koans (if I understand those correctly) – they’re intended to jolt the mind out of its ruts.
      They’re also funny, as you say.

  2. Any system which condemn and often punishes blasphemy isn’t going to foster the adherents’ ability to laugh at themselves. You don’t mock the “sacred.” Humor does exactly that.

    1. Religion does not stand mockery well.

      If there’s some thing that is unclear whether it has religious components, a test with mockery should be completed.

  3. “Allah did not create Man so he could have fun . . .There is no fun in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. Islam forbids swimming in the sea and discourages radio and television serials.”–Ayatollah Khomeini.

    Islamic tradition says The Prophet smiled but never laughed. He said that “Too much laughter deadens the heart.”

  4. Not to disagree with Allah or the Ayatollah, but I like the saying that life is much too important to be taken seriously.

  5. “Crow and Kimura’s Theoretical Population Genetics” was my text book in Jim Crow’s class. Great book. And the funny Jewish book that was lent to me as a young teen in a Boston library was “The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N”.

Comments are closed.