I’ve always found humor in Tehillim 115:8, mocking idols and the people who trust in them – especially the part about “Those who make them and trust in them should become like them.” (ie: the idols have mouths and can’t speak, ears and can’t hear” and so on. It’s so ironic. There’s also Yirmiyahu 2:27, also mocking idol-worshipers. “They say to wood, ‘you are my father.'” I once heard a drasha by a Rabbi who said that when someone makes an idol and says it’s his father, the idol should say to the person, “no, you made me, you’re my father!” And it says in Shulchan Aruch that it’s OK to mock idols, as Eliyahu haNavi did. Please correct me if I’m wrong with any of this.
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