Tell me what's funny
I'm writing a book about atheism, about my approach, which is basically that ridicule and mockery is more constructive in the long run than reasoned debate or philosophical discussion. (You are certainly free to disagree. That's the great thing about DU.) My title, and thesis, is The Gods are Hilarious. I'm interested in hearing from you folks about what you think are the absolutely funniest, most illogical, completely comical aspects of religion, the "great" texts, the moral inconsistencies, etc. It IS funny, isn't it? Can you help me? Some of my chapters include: Prophets for Profit, God Goes Digital, Righteous Dress Codes, Holy Texts 101, etc. I'm guessing every one of you has thought of a table of contents.
Tell me what you think is funniest about being religious/a believer.
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I just got the image of them on standing on their heads, twirling and buffing away ...
BTW, I'm sure we'll be condemned for our "bigotry" and "hate" because we're not taking clothing seriously ...
But, ya know, clothes make the man. This one says: "I have a giant penis on my head because I am the 'head' of an institution that serves only penis-havers at the expense of the penis-less lesserfolks."
That's what I was getting at. 
Heads might explode as they contemplate the famous Pissing Man statues. The dual peni rise and fall according to hydraulic pressure. (Much like the real thing!)
When I saw these, a Russian tour group was also visiting. All the girls in that group demanded to have their photos taken between the statues, hands outstretched, as though they were...well, you get the picture...
The Jan Hus Memorial in Old Town Square. Hus was the religious dissident who took on the Pope a hundred years before Martin Luther (and got burned at the stake for it).
His statue is glaring angrily at the Catholic church across the square. Along with figures of Hussite warriors, the Monument includes a young mother, symbolizing national rebirth (according to Wiki).
From 1938-45, the Nazis covered the Hus Memorial with swastika banners.
From 1945-89, the Communist regime often covered it with black cloth. Citizens still came and sat quietly in front of the Memorial, to show their opposition to the New Boss.
On the Internet and IRL, I've heard Czechs joke that with Communism gone, now the Czech Republic only has one other totalitarian, mind-controlling regime trying to run things. But it's the same regime they were fighting in the 15th century - the Catholic Church.
IIRC, right after Communism fell, the Church was annoyed that one Cathedral in Prague had been turned into a museum. The Church wanted it restored to use as a place of worship. The Czech govt. said no, it's doing fine as a museum. And we'll leave it that way.
From Erskine College in East Jesus, South Carolina.
After 2 of its volleyball players came out as gay, Erskine distributed its official, Jebus-approved anti-gay policy.
Which it immediately walked back after the inevitable media crapstorm, trying to claim it was neither anti-gay nor a policy.
The Official Statement did throw a bone(r) to us hets, I guess:
As mentioned above, along with eating shellfish and the approved Biblical method of selling your daughter into slavery...
http://www.outsports.com/2015/2/26/8112495/erskine-college-gay-athletes-ban
For example, so many "mainstream" Christians think the Mormon story about the Golden Tablets is laughable and ridiculous, or that Scientology (yay, spaceships!) is completely nutty (which of course it is). Yet, that thing about Mary getting knocked up by the Sky God and delivering a magical holy carpenter baby who died but came back to life and will one day return to the planet to suck the believers up into the sky? That TOTALLY happened and will happen.
Or, the more educated will scoff at those who make fun of the stories about the worldwide flood or a talking snake ("Obviously it's not meant to be taken literally!"
, but that whole Jesus thing (see above) ... Well, yeah, that part is true because faith.
It somewhat relates to the universe/Jesus graphic above.
This universe is billions of years old, and unfathomably vast, and yet the focus is one small planet populated by a mostly hairless primate species (well, Alec Baldwin excluded) that has been around for about 160,000 years in its current form, with many ancestors preceding it for eons, and then there was a guy either from the Judea of 2,000 years ago or the Mecca of 1,500 years ago, and either JC or Big M were the biggest things to hit the entire universe of umpteen billions of galaxies, like, EVER. And they're magical. So, yeah.
Funny to me, but not always Ha Ha funny because, well, frankly, it's pathetic. It's one thing to believe in nonsense if you're a goat herder in old timey Canaan or you live in a medieval village that you never venture three miles from, but to continue to believe in nonsense in "this day and age" ...
I can never look past the plain as day logical inconsistencies of the very concept of "god", nor do I identify in any way with the need to have such a thing anyway...but these are two yin-and-yang versions I appreciate:
