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My thoughts and prayers are with you.... (Original Post)
WillParkinson
Jun 2016
OP
He should yell "I'm a fetus in my 125th trimester!" Maybe then they'd dive-in. ;) -nt
Freelancer
Jun 2016
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RussBLib
(9,693 posts)1. that's cold
Cold, cold.
I think that even most Christians today would try to save a drowning person, unless maybe they were dressed in drag. The drowning person, not the Christian.
WillParkinson
(16,867 posts)2. I think it's more to do....
With them thinking thoughts and prayers will fix a problem, and they don't have to do anything else.
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)3. I think it's satire to make a point.
And it makes it quite well.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)4. I don't see it that way.
When someone is suffering from cancer or depression or abuse, few actually do anything that could help. They don't come clean the house of a cancer patient going through chemo. They don't have the time it takes to actually do something that is important. But they will pray for that person.
And this is what the cartoon is showing. Prayers do nothing.
Freelancer
(2,107 posts)5. He should yell "I'm a fetus in my 125th trimester!" Maybe then they'd dive-in. ;) -nt
kairos12
(13,303 posts)6. End the cartoon by handing him a religious pamphlet.