I’ve got this theory that one of the great signs of authentic Christianity is comedy. I’m reading the letters of Flannery O’Connor at the moment and one of her great gifts is a razor sharp wit. She’s funny, and one of the reasons she’s funny is that she makes fun of herself. She takes herself lightly…even when she knows she dying of lupus.
On the other hand, it is also a sign of the ideologue and heretic that they take…