16 thoughts on “Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ respect”

  2. This is one where only J’s intro is different from others – and it’s made topical, so it is new 😉

  3. The Author (for that is his Name, PBUH) tends to re-use old artwork, but change the words to suit. I guess that’s why he calls himself “The Author” (I add the “PBUH”), not “the Artist”.
    One of his commenters added this lovely bit of doggrel :
    Nassar+Ben+Houdja says: November 11, 2015 at 5:54 pm

    Islam is very inclusive
    To everyone, everywhere, abusive
    If islam had it’s “druthers”
    It would murder all others.
    Proof of its peacefulness, conclusive.

    1. In comic lingo that’s called ‘constraint’. Comic constraints are some variable type of limitation imposed on the strip by the artist. Probably the best example of a constrained comic that this audience would know, is ‘Dinosaur Comics’ where (with rare exceptions) the same 4 clip art styled images occur in every comic with new dialogue.

    2. If you take out the words, you’ll find that there are only about four or five different strips in regular use. Furthermore, the images of Jesus and Mo and the other characters are usually duplicated between panels. This is mainly, I think, because The Author can’t draw. You’ll get a better idea of what I mean by looking at the really early strips.

      About three years after the strip started, The Author made an attempt to improve the drawings and was universally condemned by the readership for doing so. Eventually he compromised by keeping the eyes from the older versions of Jesus n Mo but with the new cleaner images. Apparently the eyes were the only things the readers were really upset about.

  4. Oh Holy Men, I can respect your desire to be rid of me, which is why I’m going to have to invite you to assess your judgement of the environment that does not include here.

    b&

    1. That’s a pretty elaborate version of “Get out!”. Not as quick, but it could be more satisfying.

  5. At the suggestion of one of his readers, the Author is hosting a contest to complete the text boxes in the last panel – so we may see a bunch of versions of the cartoon.

  6. Occasionally I go to an Episcopal church service to see if the rector will let slip any pieces of higher criticism of the Bible. I was surprised & amused last time that his headline for the sermon was, “Religion is rubbish and just makes people kill each other”, he did point out some of the ludicrous things about religious tradition but he still ended up with, “But you need a personal relationship with Jesus” My joke is that maybe if you somehow had a personal relationship with Jesus you would find out that he had radically altered his opinions to how the New Testament records them. Maybe we need a Jesus who has been born again ? Maybe the Jesus of the 21st century would be far more scientifically minded and civilized ? Perhaps if Jesus was a seeker after truth then if the woman at the well ( re John 4) told him that she had been reading “Why evolution is true” and lent the book to him then he would say, “Well that evidence does seem overwhelming, I shall have to change my mind and accept that the theory of evolution by natural selection seems the most likely one to be true.”

    Maybe a 21st century Jesus would review the acts of the Bible characters and consider whether there might have been a less violent way to behave. Perhaps, re John 8, Jesus would have recommended that his former self had said that if a real almighty God wanted people terminated then he would do it all by himself and would not need humans as henchmen to pick up weapons against each other. “Romans 12v19 & Deut 32v35: Vengeance is mine says the Lord leave it up to me ”

    Perhaps if Jesus reviewed the behaviour of Moses then he would say that in Exodus 32v27 Moses’ order for the Levites to slay their fellow Israelites was little more than murder and pointless since even Exodus 32v35 has the Lord strike down with plague those responsible for making the golden calf. Maybe Jesus should have said that Moses should have pointed out that if God showed himself to be of real benefit by protecting & providing for his chosen ones then everyone would be queuing up at his door. People would have given up on the golden calf because it didn’t work. Moses could have said anyone who didn’t worship God would become vulnerable to bacteria and viruses, micro-organisms could have been God’s henchmen. At the very least God could have provided the knowledge to make the technology which has greatly improved the quality of life of those who have it in the 21st century, but there was nothing

    Would a 21st century Jesus say that the New Testament often misquoted him or that indeed he had made mistakes; no one’s perfect ? Maybe Jesus hasn’t returned because he is too embarrassed about how he was portrayed in New Testament stories ?

    1. The story of Exodus 32 could be wholly fictional anyway but it just struck me that how come in Exodus 32v35 there were any golden calf worshippers left for the Lord to strike with plague ? Looks like the Levites in Ex 32v27 murdered the wrong people. The whole Bible is about people fighting each other over nothing, over pointless distractions meanwhile failing to make any significant discoveries as to how to improve quality of life by protecting from malaria etc,making advances in medicine, improving crop yields & storage, avoiding food storage.

  7. Correction- that last bit should have ended; avoiding food wastage.
    Also forgot to say that my own personal Jesus is a reformed character. We’ve come to that point in our relationship where he feels he can trust me. The other day he came out and admitted to me that he never really existed and was just a figment of my imagination. I told him that was ok and I had suspected as much anyway. [ It’s a joke ]

      1. Ha ha lol stuartcoyle. Ben Carson should have stuck to surgery. Mind you a friend once gave me pea seeds which were descendants of some found in an Egyptian pyramid. I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t manage to keep any in storage or the new peas that grew from those seeds. Ps did you follow this week’s Google doodle link to the British Museum exhibition “Egypt: Faith after the Pharaohs” It gave a virtual tour.

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