Thoughts about Purim...Mocking vs Parodying

I read an interview in our newspaper lately about Purim which said that Purim is "such a festive and joyous event that it allows us to  mock the Torah!"  I'm trying to think why that sentence disturbed me so much.  Perhaps it is because of the way in which I define mock. In my mind, mock means to insult or show contempt for.  That would, I believe, be the last thing a Jew who takes his/her Judaism seriously want to do.  After all, we consider the Torah to be the means of instruction provided for us to help create a world which is complete.  I think a better way to express the levity on Purim would have been to use the word "parody" rather than "mock."  Doing a take-off on a Torah portion, uses humor in a non-insulting way while I believe mocking the Torah does not. Maybe it's only a matter of semantics, never-the-less, I found it bothered me quite a lot.