Summary: In This Episode: Another story based on religion, another complaint from a reader asking “Why should I have to develop a sense of humor?” In this week’s podcast, my response to that question.<br><br> <br> <a title="Click to submit to Twitter - You do get the chance to edit before you submit it." href="http://twitter.com/home?status=RT%20@ThisIsTrue:%20Is%20'Sweet%20Jesus'%20offensive%20...for%20an%20ice%20cream%20parlor?!%20This%20is%20True's%20latest%20podcast%20tackles%20the%20story:%20https://thisistrue.com/d-p35" target="new"></a><br> Jump To…<br> <br> * <a href="#notes">Show Notes</a><br> * <a href="#subscribe">How to Subscribe</a><br> * <a href="#feedback">How to Comment</a><br> * <a href="#transcript">Episode Transcript</a><br> * <a href="https://thisistrue.com/category/podcasts/">List of All Episodes</a><br> <br> <a name="notes"></a><br> Show Notes<br> <br> * Mike’s tagline on the story discussed (“There is a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to defend your faith — and a time to have a sense of humor.”) is a twist on <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+3&version=NIV">Ecclesiastes 3</a>: “There is… a time to weep and a time to laugh….”<br> * Rev. Straw told me the parentheses in “Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)” are important. If you’re unsure what that church is, there’s info <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Church_(Disciples_of_Christ)">here</a>. She also mentioned the podcast <a href="https://www.pulpitfiction.com">Pulpit Fiction</a>.<br> * And since she brought it up, the Get Out of Hell Free card site is <a href="https://www.getoutofhellfree.com">here</a>, and the place to order some if you want to chill out about stuff like this <a href="https://www.secure.thisistrue.com/product-category/goohf/">is here</a>.<br> * Would I (as the reader challenged) appreciate a cartoon about Mohammed? <a href="https://thisistrue.com/i_am_charlie/">Sure</a> — “not just because I’m a thinking person,” I said on that page, “but also because I make my living saying what I think needs to be said, even when I know some will be offended by it.”<br> * My figures for the percentages of Christians in Canada are from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Canada">here</a>, and in the U.S. from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States">here</a>.<br> * Kit was slightly off on the name of the “Peak Flown From Afar” — it’s a rare (for China) limestone structure clearly distinct from the sandstone around it. According to legend, an Indian monk named Huili was there 1,600 years ago and was very surprised to see something so different from everything else in the area. He decided the peak had flown over from India since such formations are common there.<br> * I wasn’t sure about the percentage of atheists in the U.S. and guessed off the top of my head. The Pew Religious Landscape survey reported that as of 2014, 22.8 percent of the U.S. population is religiously unaffiliated, atheists made up 3.1 percent and agnostics made up 4 percent of the U.S. population. The 2014 General Social Survey reported that 21 percent of Americans had no religion with 3 percent being atheist and 5 percent being agnostic (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion_in_the_United_States">Wikipedia</a>).<br> * Are there any atheists in Congress? According to the Huffington Post, as of <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/no-atheists-in-congress_us_586c074ae4b0de3a08f9d487">2017</a>, no: not one, and only one “identifies as religiously unaffiliated.”<br> <br> <a name="subscribe"></a><br> How to Subscribe<br> Search for Uncommon Sense in your podcast app or on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/uncommon-sense-the-this-is-true-podcast/id1259380128">iTunes</a>,
