Ridicule is the best test of truth.
When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying.
To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
Unlike the world that points out your flaws to ridicule you, when GOD point out your flaws, it's because He want to walk you out of it.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God grante
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.", May 16, 1767)
Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society.
Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.