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In a culture where exclamations rule, the poor little question doesn’t stand a chance. It will get bullied. I know because I’ve tried to stick up for it and got bullied myself.
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My name is David Hayward, and I am the nakedpastor. I am a graffiti artist on the walls of religion.
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I absolutely love your exclamation points/question mark posts. Some of my very favorite.
thanks alise!
What??? Shut up!!!
Love it, David.
To question the prevailing myth of the ‘mob’ is to invite a sacrificial death.
Herein lies the wonder of the life, execution and resurrection of Yeshua, the ultimate questioner!
oh i feel so badly for that little question mark! sadly this is all too true. another good one, david. you never cease to amaze me with your artistic insight.
I like this! So true, especially when it comes to religious dogma.
Thanks for sharing!
Great illustration; resonating with truth and power. Your work really is inspired, David.
Maybe my favorite of your drawings….EVER!
Love it.
I think your bats should have holes in them. None of us can declare truth statements with a 100% guarantee they are correct. The holes would symbolize the hypocrisy.
Lol… Ha! I mean “exclamation points” not bats. Oh, brother.
I like the cartoon. This is true of life in general – questioning is seen as dissension in a culture where the climate for change is restricted. Fact is, most people fear change and struggle with it – and questioning brings that fear forward from others.
thanks for your comments everyone. i’ve been in meetings all day and just getting to my emails. appreciated!
We must have gone to the same public school! The teeter-totter image took me right back there. What a visceral image.
me too brian!
I love that you’ve sold this to a teacher – as a new teacher myself, I actively encourage questioning in the classroom, and this cartoon would be a great discussion starter. Great stuff.
That must be how Rob Bell feels lately.
While I’ve occasionally been bullied, I’ve received more stunned silence.
And ostracised and silenced and avoided. If you haven’t read ‘The Power and the Glory’ by Graham Greene, you must.
an awesome book and story tigg.
I drove by a few churches and noticed they were advertising for Alpha. The picture for this course is a person struggling to carry a huge questions mark as if being burdened by not having absolute answers. Maybe you could do another cartoon that incorporates the alpha picture with these exclamation and question marks!
Wow. I love it.
Great cartoon!
@daniel – they may be exclamation points, but bats works quite well!
Wow…this is so…good. Thank you for reminding me to take a better look at myself and discover whether I’m functioning as an exclamation point or a question.
NO !!!
Not true !!!
My friend just went on a confirmation class trip as a lay leader. The trip was joint between my old and new churches. My previous pastor, who bullied me and encouraged other leaders to bully my family while we were still at the old church, was there. My friend had to get the pastors to intervene with three of the kids who were bullying others when the pastors were out of sight. All three were from the church where we had experienced bullying. Maybe it is coincidence.