Today’s Jesus and Mo strip, called “scholars”, mocks the certainty of theologians and preachers. This unwarranted certainty is a theme of the new Jesus and Mo collection (see below):
The email that accompanied the link said this:
It’s been a while since they’ve been on stage.
You can help keep help keep Jesus & Mo supplied with guitar strings and pencils by becoming a patron here. Or you could buy the latest book (probably a bit late for Xmas now).
The lateness is probably my fault, as I wrote the foreword and took too much time to write it because I was in Antarctica with lots to do. And I feel bad about that, so you should buy the book because a). it’s good, b). to reduce my feelings of guilt, and c). it’s Jesus and Mo! I hasten to add that I make no profit from sales; what I wrote was a labor of love. (Does that get me a fatwa?)
My 1500-word intro is centered on the (seemingly) innocuous cartoon printed on the book’s cover (below), but you’ll have to buy it to read what I said.
“Does that get me a fatwa?”
I bet both Mo AND Jesus would get you a fat something-or-another!
JK
By the way – Jesus and Mo, happily, seem both to have the exact same genes for skin pigmentation.
— Upton Sinclair
Ha Ha!
Yeah, all those archeologists, historians, ancient language experts, ethnographers and other egg heads are a bunch of fools.
The kind of scholar I’d ask someone like Richard Carrier.
The portable air conditioning guy?
That was his less scholarly uncle. I think.
What’s truly funny is that Christian theologians disavow the narrative preached toward the pews.
Is there any other endeavor where the findings of the truly expert are never highlighted, shared, and incorporated into the general understanding?
I’m reminded of the inverse of that argument, as applied to used-car dealers.
ALL used-car dealers are crooks. The proof? – if you want to know if any used-car dealer is a crook, just ask any other used-car dealer. 😉
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