I'm FINALLY done with school!

Yay, so I'm done with undergraduate schooling! Woooo!!!! No more school (for now).

I took my oral exam today and it was alright. Some easy questions, some hard questions. You know how they are. It was funny because before moving onto the next topic of questions (we were doing one section at a time), the easy-going professor mentioned that in one of our study guides, she laughed at one of my answers. The question was to pick a passage where we think Karl Marx was trying to be funny and explain why he was trying to be funny and whether we genuinely thought it was funny. I picked a passage where he was talking about "the Lamb of God." I had just seen the touring cast of Altar Boyz three times so I was laughing because it reminded me of Altar Boyz ("Some people think we're really kind of odd when we sing about how we love the Lamb of God"), but of course, I had to give a serious answer as to why Karl Marx was trying to be funny; he was making fun of religion.
"You know what I thought was funny in Cheryl's study guide about Marx? For the funny passage, Cheryl picked a passage that no one else picked and I thought that THAT was funny and it made me laugh," Professor M said, she was laughing while saying this.
"Remind me what passage it was," Professor S. said.
"The Lamb of God one," I said.
"Oh yes, you see, most kids pick the dirty jokes or the obvious Marx jokes, but he DOES tell a lot of religious jokes, but most people don't pick up on it," Professor S. said while he was laughing too.
And then I went into my explanation about the show to them again and they thought it was hilarious.
Wee... and I'm going to see MTW Altar Boyz for a 3rd time later today too... how ironic...

Anyway, for those interested in the question and my answer:
"Find and quote any passage in the assigned reading in which you think Karl (not Groucho!) Marx was at least trying to be funny. Explain the joke you have identified and tell us whether you were or were not genuinely amused by it and why."

“As a use-value, the linen is something palpably different from the coat; as value, it is identical with the coat, and therefore looks like the coat. Thus the linen acquires a value-form different from its natural form. Its existence as value is manifested in its equality with the coat, just as the sheep-like nature of the Christian is shown in his resemblance to the Lamb of God” (Marx, 1867:143).

After seeing Altar Boyz, a hilarious off-Broadway musical about a Catholic boy band (whose members include Matthew, Mark, Luke, Juan, and Abraham [he’s Jewish]), three times in the past month, anything related to Christianity amuses me. Having recently learned what “Lamb of God” meant because of the musical (Abraham sings, “Some people think we’re really kind of odd / when we sing about how we love the Lamb of God.”), it was satisfying to know that I understood the Christian reference.
The more I analyzed the passage with my roommate (a devout Christian), the more amusing it became. First off, Marx is anti-religious so for him to cite Christianity seems like he is poking fun at it. Second, the analogy itself is amusing in that he is equating linen to Christians and the coat to the Lamb of God, Jesus.
This is how I interpreted it, with the help of my roommate since I am not Christian: Marx states that the linen has no value unless it is equated to some other commodity, the coat. The linen has value because of its relationship to the coat. Without the coat, the linen’s existence as a value is not manifested. If there is no such thing as a coat or if a coat is not equated or related to the linen in some way, then the linen has no value. Similarly, Christians have value or meaning because of their relationship with Jesus. If there is no such thing as Jesus, they have no value or purpose in life. As my roommate analogized with sincerity, “If there is no such thing as a coat, then there’s no purpose for the linen to exist and there’s no meaning in its life.”

On that note, watch this video because it's the best thing ever!
The Calling Music Video