Systems of religious and ideological belief hate and persecute a sense of humour. This should be a sufficient reason to find in a sense of humour our real Saviour. A sense of humour would allow us to increase our brain's potential, to acquire a wider and deeper reasoning. With this same reasoning we will be able to realise that it is in the nature of religious or ideological 'saviours' to enslave the saved. Fantasising can be amusing, but being guided or 'saved' by fantasies is positively ridiculous.
Fantasies are viruses which cause fevers in human minds.
These viruses can be neutralised only by injecting into the feverish mind some sense of humour. The essential ingredient of a sense of humour is self-ridicule. We can attain this self-ridicule by taking into consideration that our cemeteries are full of people who were firmly convinced in their lifetimes that they were both important and indispensable. If we develop a sense of humour we can liberate ourselves from our wishful beliefs which, in essence, are confidence tricks that we play upon ourselves. A sense of humour enables us to deride pretentious beliefs and unthinking faith, and to avoid being hurt or mocked by the irony of fate which is so much a part of the world of pretension and thoughtlessness.