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Cartoonist

(7,557 posts)
Sun Dec 20, 2015, 04:20 PM Dec 2015

Religion in the Comics - 47

Here's another installment of the newspaper strip David Crane by Winslow Mortimer. This one from June 1957.



Here are some more examples of the Holy Trinity showing God's work on Earth. Do youi have a favorite?




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Religion in the Comics - 47 (Original Post) Cartoonist Dec 2015 OP
One god... that is also three.... AlbertCat Dec 2015 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Freelancer Dec 2015 #2
. beam me up scottie Dec 2015 #3
Trinity... mr blur Dec 2015 #4
And another famous Trinity... onager Dec 2015 #5
I like that comic edhopper Dec 2015 #6
... progressoid Dec 2015 #7
 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
1. One god... that is also three....
Sun Dec 20, 2015, 04:32 PM
Dec 2015

Brahma

Vishnu and

Shiva.




(is there not a single original idea in the Abrahamic religions?????)

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onager

(9,356 posts)
5. And another famous Trinity...
Mon Dec 21, 2015, 09:13 AM
Dec 2015

The Trinity Test. World's first nuclear explosion, Alamogordo NM, July 1945. The name "Trinity" was chosen by Robert Oppenheimer, as an homage to the poet John Donne. Though Donne could have probably done without that particular honor...

edhopper

(35,010 posts)
6. I like that comic
Mon Dec 21, 2015, 05:00 PM
Dec 2015

well drawn and simply explaining the symbols. It's just the theology with out the mind numbing stupidity we have seen in other comics.

But that second to last panel is definitely the Stooges. It's either Curly in a blond wig or Shemp's hair color is wrong.

several great trilogies;

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