Look at how God designed human reproduction…that’s all you need to know to know that God not only has a sense of humor, its A) Twisted, and B) most likely full of puns.
“God must be a civil engineer. Only such a bureaucrat would run a sewer system through an entertainment center.”
Gee, thanks Racer.
Will you pay for the shipping costs to get your shirts to and from Belfast?
And for insurance - gotta have some of that - I’m not very good at ironing anyway - and God might decide that your work shirts burning would be a “pleasing aroma” to him 
When can I expect delivery of my 1000 virgins??
Will you send them airmale???
I guess that’s called temptation (by the Devil or by God?)
In case you were wondering the phrase written above is a joke, and I don’t think is appreciated by God, because is a blasphemy.
But responding to the OP, you cannot compare that little joke (or any kind of cheap joke) with art. Humor is a kind of art, but little jokes are just little jokes. Humor (my conception) is when there’s some hidden “meaning” in the joke, much more like an intelligent joke, where you can draw a conlusion from it. But again, God wouldn’t appreciate it if someone writes humor using him (unless it doesn’t insult him).
The fact that he created human beings should be the ultimate proof of his sense of humor.
About 10 years ago, on a morning when nothing was going right, I made the mistake of raising my eyes to heaven and saying “Oh God, what else can go wrong?” Five minutes later, I was laid off. I have never asked God that question again, despite having been tempted to a few times. At the risk of sounding incredible arrogant or delusional, God and I have shared a few laughs. There have also been a few times when I’ve looked heavenward and said, “Can we please get to the punchline?”
As Lala S. and a few others have said, looking at humanity is more than enough evidence for me that God has a sense of humour. Looking at the mountains near my home, knowing the leaves will be turning the color of flame in a few weeks, listening to the music of J. S. Bach, or watching a Shakespeare play, I have no doubt He appreciates art. If we are truly created in His image, as my religion holds, surely part of that image must include the urge to create.
Getting down to a more prosaic level, I think to some extent blasphemy and sin lie in the eye of the beholder. On the other hand, some people deliberately do things to provoke shock or thought in the viewer. Personally, I don’t care for art as shock value, in that, if I have to read a thesis on the meaning of a work of art in order to appreciate it, I’ll pass.
Lala S., welcome to the Board!
CJ
Q. How many Gods does it take to change a light bulb?
A. “I don’t appreciate that!” <smite>
Not only can looking at humans give us a clue that God does, indeed have a sense of humor, but also consider some of His other creations. . .the Duckbilled Platypus comes to mind. Also, some of the stranger sea creatures . . .
quixotic78:
Of course, the reason for that might have been that those folks weren’t joking.
Actually, I saw pisschrist and thought it was a beautiful picture.
Granted. Chalk it up to a poor choice of words on my part. The kids were teasing, but probably (maybe?) meant it seriously rather than jokingly. Nevertheless, the point is that God apparently does not have much of a sense of humor about Himself or His servants. Instead, He behaved (through Elisha) like a really, really strong six year old would behave if he were to be teased. God did NOT say, “Lighten up, chromedome! Besides, they’re only kids.”
::shrug:: That sort of thing would make me think twice about jesting about the Lord (if I still believed that He existed, I mean).
Quix
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I thought it was a sculpture, actual jar, actual urine, actual crucifix.
anyway, i’m not devaluing it as a work of art, although I don’t really remember the artist’s statement about it, was it a statement about religious control? or was is shock for shock’s sake? something else?
anyway, beautiful or not, i’m thinking the artist at very least gets a charley horse from st. peter for that one, maybe even several good kicks in the pants and some indian burns.
Greck,
It was a photograph of a crucifix in a jar of urine.
To be honest, I don’t recall what the artist’s motivation was. I just remember seeing the image and, at first I didn’t realize the crucifix was in urine. When I learned that I think my reaction was “hmm. Interesting. Not sure why, but it does look good.”
Once again, I don’t believe myself, but I do think that if there is a great beyond, there’ll be more important stuff going on and Pete will be too busy to bother rapping an artists knuckles, just 'cause he put a rosary in a jar of piss.
The Talmud (Sotah 46b-47a) has the following notes on this incident:
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The epithet “baldhead” carried a subtext, directly related to what Elisha had just done in healing the waters of Jericho (ibid. vv. 19-22): these young men had until then carried on a lucrative trade in supplying the city with good water, so they resented Elisha’s having made the place “bald” (unprofitable) to them. Put differently, they were ticked off at not being able to profit any more from the locals’ misery.
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In a human court of law, when a person is convicted of some charge and is to be sentenced, past good behavior can be used as grounds for reducing the sentence (IANAL, so the above is to be taken only in a very general sense); and according to Jewish tradition, Divine justice works much the same way. In this case, the Talmud observes that these people were totally devoid of good deeds, so that once G-d’s “attention,” so to speak, was focused on them (by Elisha’s curse), there was nothing left to shield them from punishment.
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Nonetheless, Elisha himself was later punished (with a serious illness) for his action, since G-d prefers to give even such people a chance to repent.