Which leads the shopper to ask..
 
                                                 

 
 I know just how the shopper woman feels!  I drink  a cola without sugar,
no salt, no caffeine and wonder what I'm paying for!?  Water only??
The cartoon, for me, points to the anger and frustration of many modern
Christians raised on the "old time religion"  which may have been
good enough for David, Peter or Mary ( AD 40).  But is not good enough
for most moderns.  Not just the eggheads at Yale but the man on the street.
Or the woman sitting in the pew.  Yeah, I know I've turned the cartoon's meaning
on it head.  Who cares!  Jesus himself specialized in putting many a
zinger in his parables.  Just to check if his listeners were truly listening.
Maybe.

Yes, it may be comforting for some that angels sing in the night when God
jumps into history in a baby,  tells the wind to shut up and calm down as
a sure fire sign of divine presence,  and in Jesus flexes divine muscle by
raising his friend Lazarus back to life.  Or splashes around divine blood on
a cross  as an eternal sign God's enmity and hatred of sin/sinners is covered
and turned to everlasting love. Well, that's the old time story.  And it had its
divine use and effectiveness, back then.  But not now. So, if you are still
serving up the verities of the faith those who now lap itup will wise up sooner
or later.  And lose spiritual substance as they wasteaway on bread  served
up in some churches but is devoid of all nourishment.  Then the angry "thins"
will ask  "Where is the food section?" Chew on that, folk.   Actually, buy a
recent book by Marcus Borg, or Tom Harpur.  Or Hans Kung etc. etc.   Someone
who knows the Bible and knows that Jesus can be interpreted very well in
modern terms.  Modern terms that are often actually closer than ever to the
spirit and real  words of Jesus of Nazareth.     Give me that new time religion,
serve me that new time religion,

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