If these jokes are gonna try to satirise anything, they should try to get it right!
First of all it is comparing the death of animals to the death of a man. Since the fall of man, animals became food. Murder and eating meat are vastly different. Therefore this is not a valid criticism of the bible but an animal rights issue
"Actually, God gave him a wife and an entire city"
NO, wrong. God commanded him to go the the "land of nod" or the land of wandering. He is later cited in the bible as having a wife and children, seemingly independent of God.
Linking in with the latter, is that God forgave Cain for his murderous act, and forbade anyone to kill him or they would be punished seven times as brutally.
Thus God, in the Bible clearly gives people a choice of how to live their lives and even forgiveness for their mistakes, so that people can bash the bible when they want.
"Let me get his straight.... Abel the one with the good gift, ends up murdered and dead in the ground". In the joke this is seen to be a bad thing, but this shows how skewed to an atheist perspective it is. As Christians will believe that he is in heaven. Moreover, the Bible sees him as a "martyr", and later on he is even compared to Jesus.
If the joke was factually correct, I don't think that this joke would be funny, nor would it have any valid criticisms.
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