"Some people have no sense of humour."

I recently came along the title of this post, in an article about a music video involving atheists portraying Christ visiting strip clubs and getting drunk.

Now, people are free to express themselves as they see fit. If denigrating the Lord God, beloved of one quarter of humanity, is what you see fit to with that right, then so be it. I won't stop you, although I will certainly criticise you.

But from where comes this phrase, so oft heard in debates of this nature? What those men wrote and performed was sick and insulting. Precisely what defence, in their minds, is the phrase "Some people have no sense of humour" against those charges: of being insulting, sickening? It says many things. For one, it says 'I am free to insult you'. More than that, it is expressed as an error in the viewpoint of the insulted: 'you are deficient in the way you view the world'. If we examine the content of the artistic piece in question, we find it isn't very clever at all. It simply puts Christ in the reverse of a lot of the myths about him: he was abstemious and pious, so lets make him a womanising drunk.

There isn't much more depth I care to go to on this issue. The men who made this video are shallow, and so shallow reasoning will suffice to counter them. I will make this point though: this is their sincere form of worship. And it has nothing positive to proclaim, aside from drunkenness and womanising, but a lot of violent feeling toward the myths of Christ. If they wished to get truly deep, they should probably consider the origins of that impulse.