A Religious Cartoon

Ginny is sick this morning so I’m keeping her home from work. The administration still has not said if she will be among the 20 laid off at the end of the month, so I figure that if they may do without her then, they can darn sure do without her today. Of course, being the conscientious worker that she is, she wants to go in even thought she’s sick as a dog. Crazy woman!

Yesterday I finished locating misspellings, goofed punctuation, etc in my manuscript’s proof pages. God willing, I’ll make the corrections in the computer today or Monday.

The promotional blurb for this book reads:

A Dirty Old Man Goes Bad, by John Cowart, records the humor and happiness of a frustrated writer. John’s daily blog, Rabid Fun, bears the caption, “A befuddled ordinary Christian looks for spiritual realities in day to day living.” Sounds like a downer. Yet, over 104,000 readers from 102 countries visited his website in 2005. A Dirty Old Man Goes Bad reveals John’s happy joys as well as his struggles with temptation over bitterness, resentment, pornography, Microsoft, depression, laziness, Google, Blogger, pettiness, sloth, Krispy Kreme Donuts, and anger. All in all, this is a real-time love story told day by day by a man who loves reality.

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This morning’s Google News cites 1,151 stories about people rioting over a cartoon. In Indonesia yesterday a mob attacked the Danish Embassy protesting a newspaper’s editorial cartoon. It’s a religious cartoon.

This interests me because the oldest picture of Jesus ever found is also a cartoon.

According to archaeologists, a soldier scratched the cartoon of Jesus on the wall of a Roman army barracks about 30 years after Christ rose from death.

This cartoon means so much to me that I keep a copy on my office wall.

Some people say it is disgusting and offensive.

They’re right.

The picture was meant to mock Jesus.

It’s been called the “Ugliest Picture On Earth”.

A couple of years ago, I wrote a piece about this cartoon, the Alexamenos Graffiti, and what it means to me -- but before you click on the link, be forewarned that many people find the cartoon gross.

The web address for my article is http://www.cowart.info/Monthly%20Features/Ugly%20pix/Ugly%20%20pix.htm .