ASBO Jesus<\/a>. An irony I see is that, precisely because the Bible cannot talk in the way depicted in the cartoon, it cannot object to conservative Christians who say things like \u201cthe Bible says\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\nThey often try to treat God in the same way.<\/p>\n
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A cartoon from ASBO Jesus. An irony I see is that, precisely because the Bible cannot talk in the way depicted in the cartoon, it cannot object to conservative Christians who say things like \u201cthe Bible says\u2026.\u201d They often try to treat God in the same way. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":12836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,131,136,139],"tags":[821,1140,1154,1163,1625,3675,5677],"class_list":["post-12835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible","category-christianity-religion","category-evangelicals","category-fundamentalism-religion","tag-asbo","tag-bible","tag-biblicism","tag-bibliolatry","tag-cartoon","tag-fundamentalism-religion","tag-jesus"],"yoast_head":"\n
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