God, That's Funny!

I have always been bothered by the lack of humor in the Bible.  It is probably the main trait of modern Christian fellowship that doesn't seem to be present much at all in such a sweeping tale of human history.  Personality wise Jesus comes across as passionate, kind, and so many other ideals, but not the guy that makes you spew milk out of your nose in the cafeteria, or even someone to grab a beer with.

Exodus 8: 1-4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Let my people go, that they may serve me. But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with frogs. The Nile shall swarm with frogs that shall come up into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading bowls. The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your servants.”’”

Movies from my teenage years no longer seem all that funny anymore to me.  If it's humor from my parents' generation, forget about it, it's way too dated.  Or go back even further, the Shakespearean humor my English Lit teacher took 5 minutes to explain to the class, at best it generated a forced smile.

Frogs.  Really?  It's straight from a Mad Libs story.  Of all the things to rain down when you're trying to set people free.   Or, maybe that's not bad for 3,500-year-old humor.