I will refrain from discussing politics this morning. I do want to say, however, that for the last two evenings my wife has incessantly ridiculed my taste for liver. No matter how well I cook it–with butter, Vidalia onions and spices, the mockery and the signs of disgust continue. It has been a difficult season in our lives, which reminds me that Facebook has no sense of humor. They had the audacity to treat one of my favorite Monty Python “Burn the Witch” bits as if it were a threat to society. The impertinence of this platform!
The scene begins when the village brings a woman accused of witchcraft. Their conclusive and zealous assertion is that she looks like a witch and therefore must be one. The case unfolds and reaches a crescendo when the village ponders how to test a witch. “Why do witches burn, after all?”
“Because they are made of wood.”
BEDEVERE: Does wood sink in water?
VILLAGER #1: No, no.
VILLAGER #2: It floats! It floats!
VILLAGER #1: Throw her into the pond!
CROWD: The pond!
BEDEVERE: What also floats in water?
VILLAGER #1: Bread!
VILLAGER #2: Apples!
VILLAGER #3: Very small rocks!
VILLAGER #1: Cider!
VILLAGER #2: Uhhh, gravy!
VILLAGER #1: Cherries!
VILLAGER #2: Mud!
VILLAGER #3: Churches — churches!
VILLAGER #2: Lead — lead!
ARTHUR: A duck.
CROWD: Oooh.
BEDEVERE: Exactly! So, logically…
VILLAGER #1: If… she… weighs the same as a duck.. she’s made of wood.
BEDEVERE: And therefore?
VILLAGER #1: A witch!
CROWD: A witch! A witch! A witch!
When the The Babylon Bee made a distinctly brilliant connection between the accusatory tone of Senator Horino towards Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the false witch trial in the Monty Python scene, Facebook lost its mind. Quoting G.K. Chesterton in the Wall Street Journal, Kyle Mann nails it: “Satire has weakened in our epoch for several reasons, but chiefly, I think, because the world has become too absurd to be satirised.”
My wife does not like liver, neither do my children and the vast portions of human civilization, but I accept them as human beings. They have every right to be wrong and lack sophistication! But I am certain, however, that the political climate has reached the point of absurdity and the absurd opens the gates of insanity. And what happens when they discover that a duck floats? And that she is not a witch? Their humor disappears!
The reason we can no longer laugh at the absurdity of the left is because we have stopped living uproariously in this world. The atheists of the 19th century hated Christians because they lived the good life without complaint and laughed too much. Our problem today is that we don’t laugh enough, which means we have lost our sense as image-bearers to laugh at evil, as God does (Ps. 2).
Let’s be honest: we should make fun of anyone who eats liver. And I, as a liver-lover, should take it like a good conservative and laugh with them as I taste and see the goodness of God in every bite. In the end, it’s all pretty comedic; like politics and those who think boys can become girls.
Life is not like a box of chocolates; it’s more hilarious than a randomized selection. It’s more like liver. I hear it floats in the water. Like a witch. Therefore, Democrats are witches which means they are all ducks.
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