The Jesus and Mo artist has recycled an old strip for Lent, which goes from Feb. 18 through April 2. The caption is this:
Friday Flashback – because we’re in the middle of Lent. You didn’t forget, did you? Heathens!
Mo shows here that he has at least a tad of a sense of humor.
Hell, doing Lent isn’t even a sacrifice because after the season’s over, you’ll just go back to your “original sinful” habits (drinking wine, eating meat on Fridays, doing that two-day exercise ritual you saw on Weight Watchers per weekly etc.)
When I hear the word “sacrifice,” it usually implies permanence like death. So, Jesus didn’t even really die imo, he just had a crappy weekend.
Many religious people have a sense of humor about religion.
Someone else’s religion, at any rate.
And then there is the old joke about the Catholic bridegroom and his [other-religion / non-religious] bride, on their honeymoon.
When he does not make intimate advances, she makes it clear that she expects them. “But my dear,” he says,”I cannot, as it is Lent.”
“What! To whom and for how long?” she demands.