One might say there are exceptions (the films of Mel Brooks and Monty Python come to mind), but a viewer will notice that the levity in those works is achieved not so much by a denigration of a faith as it is through a delight in revealing comedically (as opposed to meanly, or gratuitously) the foibles, absurdities, and bewilderments we experience when we try to fathom the divine, or encapsulate it in human terms.