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“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
– Oscar Wilde
Jesus forgot to make them laugh.
Discuss.
– Oscar Wilde
Jesus forgot to make them laugh.
Discuss.
Originally posted by @whodeyOscar Wilde was a humorist who was referring here both to his own craft and, perhaps more obliquely, to his own legal troubles which included stints in gaol/exile for criminal libel and sodomy, which he may have viewed as existential threats, in a sense. Beyond what he meant by what he said, this epigram doesn't have much traction, and doesn't shed any light on why Jesus was executed or how Jesus should have conducted his ministry. The people who wanted Jesus dead did so, not because they thought he was telling "the truth", but because they saw him as a dangerous, blaspheming imposter and as a seditionist against the Roman Empire. Jesus being a bit of a joker during his lifetime would not have altered any of this.
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
– Oscar Wilde
Jesus forgot to make them laugh.
Discuss.
Originally posted by @whodeyWilde was wrong.
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
– Oscar Wilde
Jesus forgot to make them laugh.
Discuss.
Originally posted by @whodeyI don’t think Oscar Wilde's epigram applies to Jesus Christ. Do you agree with me?
Luke 11:50
Therefore this generation will be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world,
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
Joan Of Arc quotes
“My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a
proof that I am speaki ...[text shortened]... but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Originally posted by @fmfThe comment was not directed at Jesus, but it is still applicable.
I don’t think Oscar Wilde's epigram applies to Jesus Christ. Do you agree with me?
Originally posted by @whodeyHow? I think it's facetious nonsense to suggest that something a celebrity homosexual said about himself as a 'comedian' somehow applies to Jesus. Explain.
The comment was not directed at Jesus, but it is still applicable.