Truth and Consequences

Some interesting quotes:

"If you are going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you." ~George Bernard Shaw

The apostle Peter in his sermon on the Day of Pentecost:

"This Man [Jesus the Nazarene], delivered up by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death." ~Acts 2:23

Stephen:

"'You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did. Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become; you who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet did not keep it. . .'

"And when they had driven him out of the city, they began stoning him, and the witnesses laid aside their robes at the feet of a young man named Saul. And they went on stoning Stephen as he called upon the Lord and said, 'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!'" ~Acts 7:51-53; 58-59

Jesus:

"Pilate therefore said to Him, 'So you are a king?' Jesus answered, 'You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world to bear witness to the truth. Every one who is of the truth hears My voice.' Pilate said to Him, 'What is truth?'" ~John 18:37-38

It would seem that the truth is very rarely funny.