Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: unisoft!lins@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Lindsay Gower) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Jesus' resurrection Message-ID: Date: 6 Nov 90 08:24:56 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 41 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu virtech!tracy@uunet.uu.net (Tracy L. Brooks) writes: >I'm just writing to ask if anyone has read the jokes in >rec.humor about the easter kit or sacreligious jokes? >I can't believe people can be that way. Making jokes about >the Lord! I've gotten flamed a lot of times but I don't care. >They definitely will experience the wrath of God!!! Tracy, while I most definitely agree with you that many "jokes" are blasphemous, you must remember that the joke-tellers will experience the wrath of God. They do not need the wrath of Tracy. I saw your posting in .humor and IMHO do not consider it appropriate witness of Christian belief or love. "Yelling" at people does not show them Christlike behavior and it will not cause people to desire to know more about the peace of the Spirit that lives in us. I am posting this as a follow-up because I also want to say that I disagree with the response I read earlier encouraging laughing along with jokes which the hearer considers inappropriate. That's like saying when people make a funny crack about your Mom and Dad -- just laugh. When people make jokes and racial slurs about Jews, blacks, women -- just laugh. Can anyone truly think that is right? I would suggest instead either a shocked expression (which might naturally happen) or a poker face. Not a harangue of the joke-tellers flaws! Just a non- response; if asked why you don't think it's funny, then you could explain that the joke hurts you by hurting people you love. Perhaps this way we can "wean" believers away from a bad habit, and demonstrate Christlike behavior to non-believers. After all, maybe those who tell inappropriate jokes WON'T encounter God's wrath; maybe, with our help, they will come to know and to love, and to honor, God and obtain his forgiveness instead. Isn't that the aim? Lindsay Gower UniSoft Corp lins@unisoft.com