God is serious stuff. He must be because we approach the subject with such a grim attitude. At least that was my experience growing up catholic. I remember people in church praying with the same fervor as if they were testifying at a murder trial. If the priest or nuns saw you act in some way that was not in alignment with how they interpreted that you were supposed to love God, they were ready to beat that love into you, literally. But that is not too surprising when you look at the churches earlier history of burning heretics and the masochistic behavior of punishing yourself to gain favor with God.

Of course not everybody or every religion takes their relationship to God with such foreboding gloom as the catholic's. Some like to sing and dance, some like to play with rattlesnakes, some like to speak in tongues (babble), and some like to fall down and wither around on the ground, kind of like what I do whenever a Cher song comes on the radio.

I'm not trying to make fun of religions, I'm just trying to make a point. And the point I want to make is that I think God is a joke. And I mean that literally! To me, we are closer to the Almighty when we are laughing than we are when we are doing something serious. If religions truly believe that God is light and Satan is dark, then why do many of them gravitate to such dark areas when it comes to God? Doesn't it make sense that we are closer to God when we are doing something light, like laughing or singing and dancing?