The Independent Thinker

Recently, CNN reported on one of those churches where the congregation laughs 
its heart out while they are worshiping God.
The argument behind all this laughter is God does not ask us to be miserable
while we are serving Him.

And the preacher on that CNN show aslo argued
that being sad or depressed at church while we are praying is not what God
asked from us.

Another minister said in one of his preachings: Hippopotamus, peacock,
Dachshund, giraffe, hummingbird, dolphin, fireflies, and humans like us:
Herman, Thelma, Josephine, and Thomas: If you look around at all the
creatures of the world, and we humans in all our vibrant variety, don’t you
have to conclude that God has a great sense of humor? And he went on to quote some passages in the Bible where laughter is referred to.     

In other words, those ministers were telling us that God likes laughter too.

Generally speaking, I wish we all were laughing at a lot things! Maybe we
would see less bad things across the world: maybe less wars, less
greediness, less selfishness, less crimes, less hatred...       

Above all, the politicians would stop blowing things out of proportion,
because they' d know that we all would start laughing at them instead of
us getting scared and depressed whenever they open their big mouth about
this, about that, and about things that only exist in their minds...