I had a scene I was working on for "Conceptions" and I thought it was really funny. I wanted to get some opinions from some of my readers so I asked a few people to read it. One of the ladies was a non-Christian.
NC Lady: "For being a Christian book, it was funny but not laugh out loud funny.
Me: "Wait... what? 'For being Christian...' what does THAT mean?"
NC Lady: "I just mean that... Christians don't really have a good sense of humor..."
I think I would have rather her just tell me it sucked as I find this to be extremely hurtful. Christians don't have a good sense of humor? I want to thank all those pious Christians out there for ruining society's idea of who and what we are. THANKS for pretending to be perfect so we all look like a bunch of boring slugs.
I will have you know, Christians are JUST LIKE everyone else. We laugh, we cry, we fail, we curse, we yell, we fail, we try, we fall, we sin, we get back up and try again, and yes... some of us are very funny, despite being CHRISTIAN.
Most importantly... when we try and fail... we are forgiven when we ask to be. It's actually a pretty good deal. I have no complaints, especially since I'm allowed to laugh.
That is all.
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