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Can fundamentalists be funny?
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RE: Can fundamentalists be funny?
In personality tests given as part of psychological studies, fundamentalist Christians show much less "openness to experience" than liberal Christians.

Fundamentalists, however, scored significantly lower than liberals on openness to experience, r(109) = 9.58, P < 0.001, effect size: Y = 0.68. Moreover, additional f-tests indicated that fundamentalists scored significantly lower than liberals on each of the 12 items that constitute the openness to experience dimension, P < 0.001. Thus, the relative avoidance of diverse experiences and ideas in the fundamentalist group is not confined to ideological. moral, or religious issues; it also extends to dislike of foreign foods, poetry and so forth. 
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#12
RE: Can fundamentalists be funny?
In my experience, yes, very funny. Their jokes just consist of poking mild fun at easily exploitable tropes in their in group. Like talking in church, or that one time while I was spanking my child. Within their group they have loads of fun because people are like that. And, an outsider would find their humor disturbing sometimes because their value system is so different.
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#13
RE: Can fundamentalists be funny?
Yes, they can be funny.

Also not all fundamentalists are of the Westboro Baptist type. Just so you know.

Famous example: Ray Comfort. Yes he's an idiot, but he's also funny as heck.
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RE: Can fundamentalists be funny?
I'm a fundamentalist atheist. Badoom-tish! I'll be here all night.
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RE: Can fundamentalists be funny?
Fundamentalists put the "mental" in fundamental...not so much the "fun".
  
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RE: Can fundamentalists be funny?
(August 26, 2020 at 2:12 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Fundamentalists put the "mental" in fundamental...not so much the "fun".

You have to learn to laugh at the afflicted.   The afflicted wouldn’t hesitate to Laugh at you because they think gleefulness in their affliction is a key benefit of the affliction.
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