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Talk:Essay:Greatest Mysteries of World History (view source)
Revision as of 04:56, October 1, 2012
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Please could someone explain why there is supposed to be a connection between humour and Christianity? i.e. why are you asking the question about whether or not humour existed before Christ? I genuinely don't understand the basis of the supposed connection. [[User:JosephMac|JosephMac]] 19:56, 30 April 2009 (EDT)
Please could someone explain why there is supposed to be a connection between humour and Christianity? i.e. why are you asking the question about whether or not humour existed before Christ? I genuinely don't understand the basis of the supposed connection. [[User:JosephMac|JosephMac]] 19:56, 30 April 2009 (EDT)
Alright, here is an article about a roman jokebook they found (A.D. but i belive the authors were pagan), Aristophanes certainly writes to be funny, a lot of other ancient comedy is obviously intended to be funny, and so on. I would say that humor is a pretty universal human quality, and to qualify some of it as not 'true humour' is basically just cultural imperialism: 'I don't get it, therefore it is not funny as my 21st century western sense of humor is the only valid one'. Also, a lot of pre-christian comedy is quite funny to us anyway ('Lysistrata' is pretty good) The whole 'mystery' seems to be somewhat silly to me. Also 'why did Islam expand?'? and that one about Guy fawkes? there are pretty simple answers to them. [[User:Cmurphynz|Cmurphynz]] 00:56, 1 October 2012 (EDT)
==Who was right - Catholics or Protestants?==
==Who was right - Catholics or Protestants?==