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Related: About this forumMy Take: What all those Jesus jokes tell us
Editors note: Edward J. Blum is a historian of race and religion at San Diego State University. Paul Harvey is a history professor at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and runs the blog Religion in AmericanHistory. They co-authored The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America.
By Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey, Special to CNN
Did you ever hear the one about Jesus being Mexican? Well, he was bilingual; he was constantly harassed by the government; and his first name was Jesus.
Or, perhaps Jesus was Irish? He loved a good story; he never kept a steady job; and his last request was for a drink.
Or maybe its possible that Jesus was Californian? He never cut his hair; he was always walking around barefoot; and he started a new religion.
You may not have heard these Jesus jokes, but youve heard others. They represent a comedic trend that has animated the United States since the 1970s. More and more comedy gimmicks hit on Jesus, his ethnicity and his relationship to politics. Laughing with (and at) the Lord is now fodder for major motion pictures, barroom comedy tours, graphic novels, t-shirts and bumper stickers.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/10/my-take-what-all-those-jesus-jokes-tell-us/
dflprincess
(28,057 posts)"He was always hangning out with the boys, he didn't have steady employment, he lived with his mother until he was 30 and she thought he was God."
rug
(82,333 posts)The H in Jesus H. Christ stands for Haploid.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)was that he lived at home until he was thirty, his mother thought he was God, and he thought she was a virgin.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)rise and acceptance.
I find some of the "humor" actually humorous when it is clever and makes a good point. Otoh, some of it is meant only to ridicule followers of Jesus, which is, well, generally only funny to anti-theists.
For example, I liked this one kpete posted yesterday: