God the College Professor

This was a joke in the back of our reading on Conceptual Blending and Analogy.
It was listed under the subtopic - Humor (which I thought, in itself, was humorous)

Why God won't get tenure
1. Only published one book.
2. It was in Hebrew.
3. It had no references.
4. He did not publish it in referenced journals.
5. Some doubt that He even wrote it Himself.
6. He is not known for His cooperative work.
7. Sure, He created the world, but what has He done lately?
8. He did not get permission from any review board to work with human subjects.
9. When one experiment went awry, He tried to cover it up by drowning all the subjects.
10. When sample subjects do not behave as predicted, He deletes the whole sample.
11. He rarely comes to class - just tells His students to read the Book.
12. It is rumored that He sometimes lets His Son teach the class.
13. Although He only has 10 requirements, His students often fail His tests.
14. He expelled his first two students for learning.
15. His office hours were infrequent and usually held on a mountain top.

The brilliant irony that this joke was in a reading for a college class wasn't lost on me. In fact, I have to admit that while the article in its entirety was really interesting, this last part was my favorite.

The point of using the joke, of course, is that it blended religion, colloquial college-speak and commonly held precepts in a humorous fashion. Does the reader question the analogy because God isn't actually a college professor? Not at all.
Earlier in the article an example is given where a ski instructor tells his pupil to "hold his arms correctly and look down the slope" like "a waiter in Paris carrying a tray with champagne and croissants". Does the skier say to his instructor "Wait a minute, I'm not a waiter in a restaurant! And we're in Colorado, not Paris!" Of course not! He uses Conceptual Blending to put the 2 ideas together into something that makes sense for the situation in order to help him understand the concept.

The question for me is this, did the inclusion of this joke as an example of Conceptual Blending hurt or help in any way the article and its credibility? The example with the waiter is definitely not offensive, but the religious reference could be!

Before I got to the last few pages, I found myself thinking about how this idea of Conceptual Blending and Analogy could be applied to religion and came up with lots of ways. This one, however, wasn't the first one that came to mind :-)