Dark Comedy

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Nowadays is clearly superior to those old days when they took religion so seriously. Nowadays we don't burn people at the stake (for example). Nowadays we tolerate folks like me who like to poke fun at obsolete ideas. Nowadays we not only have freedom of religion we have freedom from religion. This is blessed progress. Western culture has arrived at the place where various religions can be taken with a dose of salt. We are truly blessed and we know it.

Take, for example, the NBC series, Revelation. What a show! I laughed and laughed as I watched the first installment on tivo. It took me several attempts to get through it because I found it so gloriously funny. Did you see it? If so did you find it funny? Did you see the humor of it? Or were you instead so emotionally involved with the story that you never laughed at all? Either, or.

I must admit that at first glance I found the story line sophomoric. It seemed to me to be a bad presentation of dubious religion, suitable only for the most abject Evangelicals. That was my initial evaluation. But as the show went on I began to discover the dubious science too. As I continued to watch it, almost mezmerized, it dawned on me that what we actually have here is a Dark Comedy!