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I wonder if God laughs...

I mean, he seems like a serious Guy. So serious I even had to capitalize “guy”
(glancing fearfully at the ceiling, I went back and changed it). But deep down I have to believe he would laugh if he stumbled upon Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog, or read the web comic XKCD. I want to imagine him as that outlandish uncle that would sometimes pop in for dinner as a kid, a big guy with a bushy moustache and a booming voice that you could hear laughing for miles. Everyone would sit enthralled by his stories late into the night. “So there was this one time,” and we would freeze with food in limbo between our plates and faces, listening. From his stories I learned about life and love and faith, “how it really is”.
I like to think that Jesus’ parables were something like that; this carpenter guy would come for supper and tell some damn good stories, and you felt somehow wiser afterwards.

This is an excerpt from Quentin’s passage on Evangelicals use of the internet for delighting,
“In addition, evangelicals frequently enjoy witty online interaction and exchange delightful expressions of faith. Blogs demonstrate that evangelicals take pleasure in poking fun at themselves, too. ‘What should a good sermon be about,’ asks one website? Answer: ‘about God and about ten minutes.’ So much for long winded preachers!”

Stop it Quentin, that’s enough delight for one day.

Five lines about “delighting” are all Quent could fit in his 11 page chapter on Pilgrims in Cyberspace.

I wonder if God laughs...