I have laughed until it hurt and it was a blast. I have noticed that so many religious people have separated their religion from real life. I sing in and out of church services. I pray in and out of the building. I smile, laugh, cry, shout. It seems that we have sacred things and places and non-sacred things and places. Only what is traditional is allowed. Mostly "twice dead and plucked by the roots" expressions of life are accepted in church: "solemn", I believe, is the key word. These same people leave church and split a gut (as it were) at their Sunday afternoon small group. Small groups are considered secular enough to laugh? But if the conversation happens to get on something spiritual, that solemn spirt has to be indulged. If it isn't a short glare at the offending person by leader stick-in-the-mud should do the trick. If the "look" doesn't work the offender will comply with the secular/sacred lecture. That should douse that laughing demon. Someone said that every bush should be a burning bush and all ground holy ground. If laughing should be banned from church but not from life then the church should change not life. Jesus did not come to bring another religion but He came to bring life - abundant life! We should pick our battles carefully - laughing out loud ain't one of them. The devil loves us drawing lines, braking fellowship and issuing accusitory oppinions aginst each other. Sad!