The folded arms really make this for me. Great cartoon today!
jenny
January 19, 2011 | 8:29 am
Not just in church, too. There are lots of places where humans get together and wear masks to hide what’s really going on. It’s sad.
Paul
January 19, 2011 | 8:33 am
Wow. Scary to think of how much we have missed in that scenario.
Richard
January 19, 2011 | 9:04 am
I’m thinking of that REM song called “Shiny Happy people.” LOL
Jan Johnson
January 19, 2011 | 9:22 am
I think of how many times my husband and I argued before going to church and we put on our happy faces until we got home later in the day. I know many people who did the same thing. If we showed our real emotions we would have been ‘talked to’, our situation would have been made public to the rest of the church, and we would have been expected to resolve the issue right there and then.
JD
January 19, 2011 | 9:33 am
A lot of people wear their masks around most other people. Church shouldn’t be one of those places, but it happens.
That is a perfect way of putting it, and an analogy that could go much deeper. I really dislike the ‘big box’ churches and mega-churches, the seem to so fundamentally go against what the whole idea is about.
My name is David Hayward, and I am the nakedpastor. I am a graffiti artist on the walls of religion.
The folded arms really make this for me. Great cartoon today!
Not just in church, too. There are lots of places where humans get together and wear masks to hide what’s really going on. It’s sad.
Wow. Scary to think of how much we have missed in that scenario.
I’m thinking of that REM song called “Shiny Happy people.” LOL
I think of how many times my husband and I argued before going to church and we put on our happy faces until we got home later in the day. I know many people who did the same thing. If we showed our real emotions we would have been ‘talked to’, our situation would have been made public to the rest of the church, and we would have been expected to resolve the issue right there and then.
A lot of people wear their masks around most other people. Church shouldn’t be one of those places, but it happens.
Funny Richard. I was thinking of that song too.
I remember those people, all infused with the ‘holy’ spirit. Or something like that.
Makes me think of the song ‘ If This is Not a Place’ by Ken Medema. Come to think of it, Nakedpastor, you would probably really appreciate that song.
And the song was written for the Church…..
Happiness is a dis-ease?
Church can be so Walmartish!
This also feels like the part when you are told to turn to your neighbors and greet the people next to you
Just add a Bible to each of those folded arms and you could turn it into a movie called, The Attack of the Clones.
Louise, you hit it on the nose!
awwwwww snap!!!!
@Louise…
That is a perfect way of putting it, and an analogy that could go much deeper. I really dislike the ‘big box’ churches and mega-churches, the seem to so fundamentally go against what the whole idea is about.