Well, at least that’s cartoonist Mike Stanfill’s take in today’s panel of The Far Left Side. It also paves the way for a guest post coming up next.
A sign of the times: this never could have been published anywhere when I was a kid.
h/t: William M.
How the Bible came to be
September 5, 2014 • 6:37 am
Funny! It took me a while to get the ‘dye for hare skins’ pun.
I’m still missing that one. Explain, please? KThxBai
“Dyed four hare skins” <= “Died for our sins”
b&
Oh, jeezzzz! Thank you!
That Jesus! He got his clientele pegged. They were cheap hearers, always starting off on the wrong foot.
That’s hilarious! What if he’d been a bootmaker? Imagine wearing Jesus boots.
Jerry would make us guess where the skin came from.
Considering Jesus’s propensity for disturbing grave sites, I’m sure that’s something better not long pondered….
b&
ROTFL!
Have you heard the one about the mohel’s wallet?
If Jesus copied that scenario, the boots could be made for small children and allowed to grow with them, just by rubbing them the right way!
His mom, Mary, was the region’s version of a working girl and had a real innocent air about her. And he made a really messy fish-and-bread meal that was so spicy it could raise the dead!
b&
…ah , the great book of crap…
“And he made waterproof boots and could walk on water without getting his feet wet.”
Brilliant.
If you go on the site and click on the cartoon there is a second panel.
I may not have, so thanks!
This is exactly what drove the “Blessed are the Cheesemakers” scence from The Life of Brian. John Cleese talked about it in an interview, saying that they wanted to make a joke about Matthew not having written down the sermon on the mount until 30 years after Jesus reportedly made it. Perhaps he got a couple of things mixed up.
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“…this never could have been published anywhere when I was a kid…”
The Soviet Union
The People’s Republic of China
North Korea
Cambodia
East Germany
The implication being that even ultra-repressive totalitarian regimes had, in some respects, more “freedumb” than ‘murica.