It’s that bloke John of Patmos “Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth.”
I don’t know about that, but you got me curious about his “followers are just a little bit excited right now”, and I ran into a field of rabbit holes into a seething mess of religious nuttery. American religious nuttery.
According to what I’m reading, the phrase came up on Twitter in a dispute involving a Jew, though I lost track of whether he’s a Christian convert, which would somewhat confuse the issue, and it’s being used in a sort of “dog whistle” manner to signal an ideological stance more or less in the realm of Christian Nationalist.
In the process, I also learned a new word theonomy (governance by divine law), and skimmed some stuff about “covenant” and “dispensationalist” theology, which I gather are different views about what the bible promises for the millennium. Just utter the magic words, and it shall all come bubbling up. I guess this last part may have been dragged in because the sparking event was an argument about Israel’s recent activities, and many of the hard core religious wackos have a big soft spot for Israel, but of course not Jews, so it can easily get weirder than the usual level.
Donn Cave: Re Monarchs – Migratory butterflies by the billions are amazing in many ways. Many days ago (last millennium!) we had opportunity to watch the massive invasion of them in a small town (Monterey?) where they totally covered trees in a park. A police officer came by and wondered why people were staring so intently at apparently nothing, so I lent her my binoculars – and Lo! it became revealed to her.
Don’t know if their status has changed since. A powerful experience, well worth at least a detour, in season. I forget how many Michelin stars that is, maybe two? (Makes sense: * stop, ** detour, *** trip)
I’m sorry to say that monarch business isn’t what it used to be, either. Thanks apparently to extensive use of glyphosate (Round-Up) to poison agricultural land against weeds, which is what they eat. Estimates vary of the population reduction, but on the bright side I don’t think we’re talking about extinction yet, just depends on us to grow more weeds and they’ll bounce back. Mainly various different species of milkweed.
Call me media-addled (& aren’t we all?), but King Christ connects quite quickly in my mind to Kong Chrost, rapidly degenerating to Christ Chrost, kissed cost, list lost, pissed post (kinda). Not to mention King Kong, ding dong, ping pong, bing bong, sing song, shling shlong, and – nod to Ricky Gervais – ming mong.
As for Mo, well it’s almost endless: Slow Mo, Mo Jo, Heigh Ho, low blow, … & even – nod to Judy Garland – ToTo, too.
And where’s Moses (hoses necroses dozes) these days?
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Wittily captures much of the absurdity of religious apologetics. Mano Singham
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Often hilarious, frequently wry, these cartoons do what all the best cartoons do: they tell the truth through humour. Terry Sanderson, NSS President
...a wonderfully acid British cartoonist... Nick Cohen
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...empowering, important and deeply progressive, not to mention hilarious... Council of Ex-Muslims
March 19, 2010
He is not the king, he’s a naughty boy!
Everything god knows, xtians know better.
It’s that bloke John of Patmos “Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth.”
The ulimate oxymoron…The Gospel Truth…
Monarch status isn’t what it used to be, anyway.
Mythman Jesus can be anything you want him to be, just like any other fictional character…
They’re still doing it.. .. .. It’s called “The God Industry.”
Is it just me, or have there been references to a certain sufferer from bonespurs in this strip and the previous one?
Why are my posts not showing?
Sorry, Mockingbird. They needed to be approved, for some reason.
I don’t know about that, but you got me curious about his “followers are just a little bit excited right now”, and I ran into a field of rabbit holes into a seething mess of religious nuttery. American religious nuttery.
According to what I’m reading, the phrase came up on Twitter in a dispute involving a Jew, though I lost track of whether he’s a Christian convert, which would somewhat confuse the issue, and it’s being used in a sort of “dog whistle” manner to signal an ideological stance more or less in the realm of Christian Nationalist.
In the process, I also learned a new word theonomy (governance by divine law), and skimmed some stuff about “covenant” and “dispensationalist” theology, which I gather are different views about what the bible promises for the millennium. Just utter the magic words, and it shall all come bubbling up. I guess this last part may have been dragged in because the sparking event was an argument about Israel’s recent activities, and many of the hard core religious wackos have a big soft spot for Israel, but of course not Jews, so it can easily get weirder than the usual level.
Donn Cave: Re Monarchs – Migratory butterflies by the billions are amazing in many ways. Many days ago (last millennium!) we had opportunity to watch the massive invasion of them in a small town (Monterey?) where they totally covered trees in a park. A police officer came by and wondered why people were staring so intently at apparently nothing, so I lent her my binoculars – and Lo! it became revealed to her.
Don’t know if their status has changed since. A powerful experience, well worth at least a detour, in season. I forget how many Michelin stars that is, maybe two? (Makes sense: * stop, ** detour, *** trip)
I’m sorry to say that monarch business isn’t what it used to be, either. Thanks apparently to extensive use of glyphosate (Round-Up) to poison agricultural land against weeds, which is what they eat. Estimates vary of the population reduction, but on the bright side I don’t think we’re talking about extinction yet, just depends on us to grow more weeds and they’ll bounce back. Mainly various different species of milkweed.
To be fair, I haven’t a clue about butterflies or Moths more of an Arachnid man myself…
21st Century Arachnoid man….
M27: The Gospel Truth… belated LOLOL!
Call me media-addled (& aren’t we all?), but King Christ connects quite quickly in my mind to Kong Chrost, rapidly degenerating to Christ Chrost, kissed cost, list lost, pissed post (kinda). Not to mention King Kong, ding dong, ping pong, bing bong, sing song, shling shlong, and – nod to Ricky Gervais – ming mong.
As for Mo, well it’s almost endless: Slow Mo, Mo Jo, Heigh Ho, low blow, … & even – nod to Judy Garland – ToTo, too.
And where’s Moses (hoses necroses dozes) these days?
Dorothy? How was she sure she wasn’t still in Kansas? She can’t possibly have seen every square km can she?