The Jesus and Mo artist links this week’s strip to Mary Midgley’s dreadful column* in the June 12 Guardian, “The abuses of science”.
(The best defense of Midgley’s piece I’ve heard is this: “Well, she’s 91. What do you expect?”)
Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Midgley
June 16, 2010 • 9:08 am
Well, this cartoon could be in response to a whole slew of apologetic, accommodationists, faitheist or fundagelical pronouncements as well as Midgley’s.
But it’s also specific to Midgley – the “anti-god warriors” is a direct quote.
But that is awful, it claims atheism is proposing alternate gods (say, the devil opposite), not an absence of gods – “non-gods warriors”.
I’m not a supporter of ageism as such despite that age related behaviors are observable; so it is a “relief” to note that Midgley seems to have these notions before (cf “scientism”, Wikipedia).
I really love Jesus&Mo.
Always a highly topical and insightful cartoon. Pure genius to be able to boil down volumes of blather (mine included, I must confess) into four concise, razor-sharp panels.
I suspect the god-bots still won’t get it, no matter how evident it is.
(The best defense of Midgley’s piece I’ve heard is this: “Well, she’s 91. What do you expect?”)
Just like the best defense of Helen Thomas’ equally dimwitted statement is that she’s 89.
I used to read The Guardian at one stage. Was it always this bad and I just hadn’t noticed because I was caught up in my own smugness at reading a ‘grown up’ broadsheet, or is this nuttiness new?
No, it used to be far superior! Now they’ve removed the spell-checker.