BBCNEWS HARDtalk October 13, 2021 23:41:00
This joke, by a jewish literary academic called devorah baum. i'd never heard the joke before. it concerns a holocaust survivor who after the war dies and goes to heaven. and when he gets to heaven, god asks the survivor to tell him a holocaustjoke. so, the survivor does, and god says, "that's not funny." and the survivor says, "well, i guess you had to be there." what i love about thatjoke and its profundity is it says something which i personally, you know, i'm an atheist... i don't believe in god, but if i did believe in god, i might measure some of his occasional absences from the moral un...