Powerful Danziger Toon

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[Enrique]

1. that's over my head

beautiful drawing, but I don't get it.

[xchrom]

2. the roman guards gambling for christ's robe. nt

[Enrique]

6. thanks!

I had to Google it, but thanks to you and a Danziger and the GOP candidates I now know another Bible story.

[harmonicon]

14. I didn't get it either.

Despite growing up in a house where we all went to church until we were old enough to make up our own minds about it (lasted until I was about 7 or 8, I think - maybe a little older), and having a mother who teaches sunday school, a lot of Christian references are lost on me

I really am surprised to the extent that Christian mythology (definitely not ideology though) permeates America. For me, it's Star Wars - that's what I was really brought up on. Some bible quote? I won't get it. "These aren't the droids you're looking for," on the other hand, has a lot of meaning. "TK-421, do you copy?"

[JHB]

17. That isn't very reassuring.

Republicans give the "Jesus handwave", and their supporters are all:
"You seen that new VT-16?"
"Yeah. Some of the other guys were telling me about it. They say it's…it's quite a thing to see—"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Brilliant!

And harsh - deservedly.

[Pharaoh]

4. I still don't get it

Einsteins Quote

"God does not throw dice " comes to mind though.

[zipplewrath]

5. Casting lots

technically they are "casting lots".

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. The GOP candidates are like the Roman soldiers gambling for Jesus' clothes.

"And when they had crucified Him, they divided up His garments among themselves by casting lots." Matthew 27:35

[Warpy]

12. One of the old stories has it

that the Roman soldiers guarding the execution site cast lots (played primitive dice) over Jesus's robes because he sure didn't need them any more and well, cloth was cloth. It's an illustration of heartlessness, gambling to see who would win the property of a dying man while that man watched.

[tblue37]

15. And metaphorically, of course, these men are all trying to

claim Jesus's mantle for themselves--i.e., wrap themselves in his robes--when in truth they are intensely hostile to everything that he is supposed to have stood for.

[marybourg]

7. Wow! Is that who I think it is

up on the x?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. Jesus, I assume.

[infidel dog]

9. Editorial Cartoon of the Year candidate, methinks.

[Warpy]

11. Danziger often gets it right

and occasionally uses the same acid ink that Mr. Fish uses.

This is one of his best.

He's one of my favorite cartoonists. He always puts a whole scholarly volume into one illustration, whether I agree with him or not.

[TexasPaganDem]

13. Wow

Very powerful image.

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. Yikes....powerful indeed!

rec

[DavidDvorkin]

18. It's powerful if you're a Christian.

[Larry Ogg]

19. It's a good Metaphor for The Anti-Conscience who is out to destroy Conscience...

and now they cast lots to see who will own the robe of Conscience; a facade that will hide their inner evil.

Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing, they are the Anti-Conscience.