A question I don't care to answer right now.

OK, this may seem a bit religion focused but at it's roots this is a problem related to comedy. The article I read was an Op-ed by Ricky Gervais where he talks about his faith, or lack of there of, in god. Ricky is an atheist comedian who routinely puts god into his routines. He has taken passages directly from the bible, interpreted them and tried to understand them. He was... I'm actually not sure of the right word to use in this case so I'll just list all the possible words that I think fit what he was doing: Mocking, disproving, scoffing, breaking it down, wait... that works. He broke down the bible as seen by a modern day atheist who doesn't believe in the bible. Now in the article he's asking why should he have to believe in a god in which he's already disproved to himself. He points out the hypocrisies of how depending on your religion, that god is the one and only god. From the article Ricky gervais asks.

But what are atheists really being accused of? The dictionary definition of God is “a supernatural creator and overseer of the universe.” Included in this definition are all deities, goddesses and supernatural beings. Since the beginning of recorded history, which is defined by the invention of writing by the Sumerians around 6,000 years ago, historians have cataloged over 3700 supernatural beings, of which 2870 can be considered deities. So next time someone tells me they believe in God, I’ll say “Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?…” If they say “Just God. I only believe in the one God,” I’ll point out that they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don’t believe in 2,870 gods, and they don’t believe in 2,869.

. The crux of how this relates to comedy is that should he be allowed to joke about something that so many people hold dear and close to their hearts. My personal answer is a wholehearted yes. Oh I almost forgot... here's the article