The new Jesus and Mo strip, called “King”, came with the note, “They’re still doing it.” What are they doing? Look:
It’s especially prevalent in the U.S. And Luana told me this information, which is new to me:
The reason for this cartoon is the recent uproar about “Christ is King”. The expression was originally benign (and is everywhere in Brazil and South America – literally 90% of trucks have a sticker with it – “Jesus Cristo é o senhor”) but was appropriated as a symbol of far-right bigots. Some people are very upset about it and are trying to reclaim the sentence back to its original sense.
Lee Jussim wrote about it here.
LOL I’ve seen this.
Chiding people to say “Christ is King” is the Woke Right equivalent of coercion to say “Black Lives Matter”. It is more-or-less a struggle session – but from Woke Left’s dialectical Hellspawn – the Woke Right.
For examples of how this thought-reform works, see:
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism — A Study of “Brainwashing” in China
Robert J. Lifton
W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., New York
1961
UNC Press, 1989
I’m as tired of the Woke Right as I am the Woke Left. But at least so far they haven’t had much effect in the same deep way that the Woke Left has over the past few years.
Only a True King denies His kingship.
Doesn’t give him much chance.
As the comments on the strip say “he’s not the King, he’s a very naughty boy”.
I reside in the buckle of the Bible Belt and can confidently say this “Christ is King” stuff is a tempest in a tea cup.
It comes up from time to time and always passes.
My advice is to ignore it, I promise it will go away shortly as it always has in the past.