Religion and Politics

What All Those Jesus Jokes Tell Us

At CNN, Ed Blum and Paul Harvey describe the underlying meaning behind, and purpose of “Jesus jokes.” “The Jesus jokes not only reveal how tangled our religious, racial, economic and political positions have become,” write Blum and Harvey, “but also how many outlets there are for the jokes. In these tense times, when presidential hopefuls point fingers at one another and families unfriend one another over political and cultural differences, laughing may be one way to talk about the problems without killing one another.”

Read at CNN

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