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Mr. Fish - Jesus

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Posted on Dec 2, 2005

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By Muscleboy, March 23 at 11:12 pm #

I actually don’t think the comic intends to make fun of Jesus, but that’s just my take on it.

And there is some very very strong evidence that she was not a whore of any kind and was actually Jesus’ closest apostle; this story that she was a prostitute was a product of the Catholic church’s founders who weren’t found of a woman having such a position in life.

Just a bit of history, not to say that I find anything broadly objectionable about the Catholic church.

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By yassin, August 5, 2007 at 7:57 pm #
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Bad cartoon, just keep on the politics and leave Jesus alone.

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By ZenMasterThat, July 27, 2007 at 7:55 pm #
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I no laugh. I no chuckle. I no sense o’ humor. I american fundamentalist. No wait, that is funny.

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By itachi, April 20, 2007 at 10:46 am #
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SCREW U KIDS!!!!! dont ever make fun of Jesus like dat. not funny at all.

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By joselin, February 7, 2007 at 7:20 pm #
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wow-this is so badi dont think its funny make fun of jesus that way =[

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By Stef, January 29, 2007 at 12:09 pm #
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Oh, come on people.  Don’t you think God has a sense of humor?  We were made in his image, right? If so, find the humor already.  This is damned funny!

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By greeseyparrot, March 7, 2006 at 12:20 pm #
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Re: Comment #2893
Kevin, what possible basis do you have for your claim that: “It would be nearly impossible to write those with such accuracy, attention to detail, upper-level ideas, and timeless examples of good philosophies of life.”
It seems to me that not only is there no shortage of Greek and Roman histories that fit the bill quite nicely as far as attention to detail, and as to “...timeless examples of good philosophies of life” there are Eastern texts with the same basic tenets but with far more depth that predate the “Gospel” by centuries.
Seriously, I find it almost impossible to believe that you have attempted to do any comparative reading whatsoever.

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By Ed, February 6, 2006 at 1:57 pm #
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Was this published in a newspaper here in America?  If it were published in the Dallas Morning News (or heaven forbid a smaller, local Texas paper) I could guarantee the letters to the editors would be flooded with outrage.  If the paper didn’t issue a retraction I am sure the local mouthbreathers would boycott the paper and threaten its advertisers.

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By Duncan Stewart, February 6, 2006 at 9:23 am #
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Where is the outrage?!? Take to the streets! Death to the infidel who made this mockery of Jesus! It is time to launch a crusade! LOL

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By Eleanore Kjellberg, February 4, 2006 at 4:25 pm #
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The same fellow that is so worshipped today and lived 2000 years ago, now would be eschewed into a “rendition program; water-boarded and left to rot at Gitmo--who said that history does not repeat itself.

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By Sid, February 4, 2006 at 11:32 am #
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Being a Christian, this cartoon gave me a chuckle, because I think I agree with the priest.  Jesus wouldn’t qualify as a catholic priest.

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By mcLain Causey, February 4, 2006 at 8:37 am #
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There is no evidence Mary Magdalene was a prostitute.  That was probably a slanderous lie told in refutation to the Gnostic gospel attributed to her, which was unpopular with early church fathers.

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By Philip, February 3, 2006 at 3:09 pm #
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There was a great line in one episode of CSI, when Grissom stated that he believed in God, but not in Religion.  I think in our guts, that’s what all of us truly believe.

God speaks to all of us all of the time, if we but listen.  Religion is like the telephone game that children play.  Each time it passes from one person to another the message gets more distorted. 

The heart is the crystal in the radio through which the infinite speaks to all of us.  As soon as you use words to describe the message received, the message is distorted and destroyed.

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By Kevin, February 2, 2006 at 11:22 am #
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Clearly, Jesus was not gay and He had no wife.  You would know this if you had cracked open a Bible and actually used your mind objectively instead of in a box of pride.  Is there something wrong with being single?  The stories some of you come up with are so crazy.  “No references for His work” hmmm.  How do you know?  The stories in the Old and New Testaments were not made up.  It would be nearly impossible to write those with such accuracy, attention to detail, upper-level ideas, and timeless examples of good philosophies of life.

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By Tom, January 14, 2006 at 11:42 am #
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Did Jesus really rise from the dead, or did they put him on a no fly list too.

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By Dan~, January 7, 2006 at 9:33 am #
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Jesus could not travel preaching AND be a father at home. The bible never said or hinted that Jesus was gay, but other people later did.

One of the main things that catholics sure-as-hell forgot is on the night of Jesus’s arest when one of his apostles tried to fight back. “Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword.” This sort of non-violance was no were near the crusaids.

True christianity died with the christ. Medical technology healed more people then Jesus did.

The bible is THE MOST currupted and aultered view around. Religions leaders already killed the christ a long time ago, but they never realy stopped killing and defiling his name.

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By dave mccosh, December 27, 2005 at 6:25 am #
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...and he dresses funny, his cassock’s the wrong color

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By kate, December 27, 2005 at 5:46 am #
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He had his phone tapped by the authorities. hippy communist.

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By michael72, December 22, 2005 at 10:23 pm #
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that jesus be one cool dude if you ask me.

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By Jack Fromkin, December 19, 2005 at 1:04 pm #
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What, no mention of the fact that he is an unemployed Jewish carpenter with no references for his work ?

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By Chris Scheer, December 18, 2005 at 11:33 am #

This is hilarious. good drawing, too.

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By Stephenie Frederick, December 16, 2005 at 4:20 pm #
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Thank you, Mr. Fish!  I have often wondered about Jesus’s sexual tendencies, as least as portrayed by the christians who invented his story.  Did these christians think that having Jesus run around with guys would make him appear to have no sexual desire—and therefore be superior to us regular mortals?  I’m not sure this approach worked.

But I guess they couldn’t have given J a wife because of the offspring issue.  Not having any offspring would not promote family values.  But having offspring would pose a difficult Mendelian challenge.  Would Jesus’s children have been one-fourth immortal and three fourths mortal?

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By ZenMasterThis, December 11, 2005 at 7:04 pm #
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All the good prophets caused trouble to the orthodoxies of their day, only to be assimilated and neutralized other orthodoxies later on.

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