Once I was asked to speak with a young man who had loads of questions about Christianity. He was well read and had many objections. His friends were not able to entertain all his tough questions and thought that since I was teaching Christian Apologetics, I could be of help. So I sat him down in my office while his friends prayed in the next room. “Fabian,” I said, “What are your questions and if I can answer them to your satisfaction, would you consider following Christ?” He replied, “I don’t know because I have all these questions swimming in my head.”

For the next hour, he unleashed all his objections about Christianity and I patiently listened and offered clarifications, rationales, and all possible answers. After more than 2,000 years of study and scholarship, there are no questions under the sun that the Church has not encountered and sought to give reasonable answers. Fabian soon ran out of questions. I broached the question about following Christ if all his objections were answered. Then he revealed why he was hesitant about becoming a Christian. “I wouldn’t be able to enjoy life and do all the things I wanted!”

In other words, all the intellectual and philosophical questions were not the reason why Fabian could not follow Christ. They were excuses or a smokescreen. His issue was that by following Christ, life would be restrictive and boring. He would not be able to indulge in life’s pleasures and have fun anymore. That’s really a misconception about being a Christian. But where did Fabian get that impression from?

It would not be wrong to say that Christians are the ones perpetuating this misconception. We have often presented Christianity and the Church as no nonsense, humorless, dull, full of rules and regulations, and dead serious. Obviously God has a sense of humor to have granted Sarah fertility when she was way past the age. Obviously God was having fun, so to speak, when He commanded Gideon to fight against ten thousand commandoes with only three hundred unarmed soldiers! In this issue, we hope to rectify this and suggest that humor is heavenly and laughter is divine. God must have a sense of humor. He created you, didn’t He? Come on, have a laugh… it’s okay!