Funny or Blasphemous

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Blasphemious. As are most webcomics. Religion is easy to make fun of, so most comics and comedians do it. I await the day when humor will return to the world of comedy.
 
If you pay attention, you will see that humor is often used as the sugar coating to communicate some of the most impure and vile things. People will usually absorbe things if they are coated in humor that would shock them if humor was not used. An impure “substance” is coated in the “accidents” of humor, thereby making it easier for people to swollow. If you keep an eye out for this you will see it over and over again.
 
Hilarious! :rotfl: I honestly wouldn’t blame Jesus, Himself, if He started cracking a little grin. 😃

Keep in mind that it’s just a joke. There’s no need to take offense.

Ironically Yours, Blade and Blood

*It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. ~G.K. Chesterton *
 
Take a look at the eyes of the Jesus drawing. By reading the eyes, it looks like a deceiving sort of look, hardly what our Lord would look like.

Then read the content of the comic. Drunk driving is a deadly serious issue and this comic strip makes light of that by claiming our Lord will drive while drinking.

This comic is in very poor taste to say the least.
 
Would it be funny if a similar cartoon were made about Mahomet–or would it be considered “islamophobia”?

If it were a rabbi, would it be funny–or anti-semitic?
 
I certainly don’t think that it is blasphemous though I will say that I do not like any kind of jokes that involve Jesus or the Holy Family. Some things should just be out of bounds…
 
Its vile. It turns our Lord and Saviour into a liar. It is just further evidence that it is acceptible to mock Christianity. I don’t think humor is sinful, provided it is not in poor taste. One last thing: Imagine you had your Patron Soaint over for dinner. Would you show him (her) this cartoon? No? How about your pastor? Other people form church…you get the idea.
 
Such attempts at humor sadden me, and this is not the first time. Is there nothing sacred in this modern age, at least to those counted among the Faithful? 😦
 
It certainly is disrespectful, if not outright blasphemous. :mad:

I agree about the expression of the eyes in the last frame.

I could see a little humor in it it there were only the first two frames. In the first, the glass had wine in it and then in the second it was turned into water. End. Stop right there. And no sneaky eyes.
 
Pax_et_Caritas said:
If you pay attention, you will see that humor is often used as the sugar coating to communicate some of the most impure and vile things. People will usually absorbe things if they are coated in humor that would shock them if humor was not used. An impure “substance” is coated in the “accidents” of humor, thereby making it easier for people to swollow. If you keep an eye out for this you will see it over and over again.
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True. The intent of the humor was to make drunkenness into a cool thing and “miracles” into manipulations of nature for personal gain.

It is also bad in the sense Jesus is another comic stick figure ‘buddy’ who is just hanging out and enjoying life.
 
Some people are going to find out that, well, Christ is generally a pretty serious guy, especially about things like His Divinity and the miraculous.

Insinuating that the Incarnate Word would be deceitful or do something blatantly irresponsible is obviously blasphemous. It doesn’t matter that it’s a “joke”.

The tendency to laugh at something like thing - while quite understandable - is a sign of spiritual immaturity.
 
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Insinuating that the Incarnate Word would be deceitful or do something blatantly irresponsible is obviously blasphemous.
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Well, it is just water when he says it, so there’s no deceit.

And, being God, I don’t think Jesus could be incapable of driving, he’s omnipotent.

I think it’s basically harmless.

God Bless
 
bilop said:
Well, it is just water when he says it, so there’s no deceit.

And, being God, I don’t think Jesus could be incapable of driving, he’s omnipotent.

I think it’s basically harmless.

God Bless
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This is rather pedantic, but it’s the clearly mischievous (malicious) look on His face that makes it apparent he’s being dishonest. Along with the obvious fact that He just did lie to someone effectively.

There are plenty of things to laugh at in the world without laughing at our Savior. Jokes like this (so popular these days) all seem to have the same base undercurrent: the notion that Christ is really not that special. He’s just like us in all things, including sin.

By the way, I happen to think Christ had a great sense of humor here on earth. The approved private revelations of Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich make that apparent.
 
I think this is getting to the point where some here are taking this just a little too seriously. Once again, I say that I don’t like jokes about Jesus or the Holy Family but I don’t see the deliberate evil intent in the cartoon that some obviously do. It could be that the author is simply one of the vast multitude who really doesn’t have a clue as to who Jesus is and why He commands our love, duty and respect. You’ll find these types of people everywhere.
 
Timothysis said:
I think this is getting to the point where some here are taking this just a little too seriously. Once again, I say that I don’t like jokes about Jesus or the Holy Family but I don’t see the deliberate evil intent in the cartoon that some obviously do. It could be that the author is simply one of the vast multitude who really doesn’t have a clue as to who Jesus is and why He commands our love, duty and respect. You’ll find these types of people everywhere.
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Who said anything about “deliberately evil intent”???

Heck, Hitler wasn’t “deliberately evil”. He thought he was doing “good”.

Whether or not the author of the cartoon was in true invincible ignorance regarding the nature of Christ has nothing to do with whether we should laugh at it.
 
Paul_Folbrecht said:
Whether or not the author of the cartoon was in true invincible ignorance regarding the nature of Christ has nothing to do with whether we should laugh at it.
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Very true words. When the people of God themselves laugh at supposedly humorous depictions of him, even in the mildest manner, how can we possibly expect people who don’t believe to realize the gravity of such tasteless humor? If we do not defend certain themes as sacred and off limits, who will? I wonder how many people of Faith who defend something perceived as mild might also defend the sort of Jesus jokes found in South Park or Family Guy, saying that they are only cartoons…and again, I am saddened by the probable answer.
 
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