White Noise

I just finished White Noise. It was a book I had to read for school so I didn't like it too much. It was supposed to be funny but I just found it weird. Like something was supposed to be so ridiculously outrageous that it was a joke but to me it just seemed  really weird. And then it talked about how nuns don't really believe in God, they just say they do so we all can feel better. I don't understand what the author's point was when he put this in, because its so obviously untrue so i don't think the idea was to get people believe this exact statement. Who knows though? Maybe he just wanted to be weird and creepy and guess what? He succeeded!