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Cartoonist

(7,309 posts) Mon Dec 1, 2014, 06:17 PM Dec 2014

Religion In The Comics - 002

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Catechetical Guild Comics of St. Paul, Minnesota published two One-shot titles in the forties. They weren't generally distributed to news stands but instead were made available at Catholic schools around the country. The one titled Is This Tomorrow tapped into the anti communist fear that was sweeping the country after WWII. It was first published in 1947. The full Comic can be read here: http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=4950

The other one-shot they published was titled: God's Heroes in America. It was published in 1956 and featured stories of the missionaries that tried to convert the Native Americans. I think the cover would have been more honest if they featured a tribal leader dismissing the brown robed one. The full comic can be read here: http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=4813

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Religion In The Comics - 002 (Original Post) Cartoonist Dec 2014 OP

This is great stuff, 'toonist! mr blur Dec 2014 #1

"God's Heroes?!?" onager Dec 2014 #2

What does Nathan Lane dressed as a monk.... AlbertCat Dec 2014 #3

I like the last panel in the first book. "Look out!, he's got a nug" BlueJazz Dec 2014 #4

I like the 4th panel edhopper Dec 2014 #5

Video version of the Commie comic... onager Dec 2014 #6

Wait, what? progressoid Dec 2014 #7

Those Ca-razy Commies! AlbertCat Dec 2014 #8

"Now...Let's take a look at a genuine American town...." AlbertCat Dec 2014 #9

a good reminder of why the qhole "Stalin was an atheist" argument Lordquinton Dec 2014 #10

In God We Trust Cartoonist Dec 2014 #11

In God We Trust AlbertCat Dec 2014 #12

mr blur

(7,753 posts)

1. This is great stuff, 'toonist!

Reply to Cartoonist (Original post)

Mon Dec 1, 2014, 06:27 PM

Dec 2014

An excellent series.

onager

(9,356 posts)

2. "God's Heroes?!?"

Reply to Cartoonist (Original post)

Mon Dec 1, 2014, 06:44 PM

Dec 2014

Thanks for posting these, they're great!

"God's Heroes" is some weapons-grade historical revision. Let's see what God's Heroes accomplished in just one state, California:

In 1769 the first Spanish Franciscan mission was built in San Diego. Local tribes were relocated and conscripted into forced labor on the mission, stretching from San Diego to San Francisco. Disease, starvation, over work, and torture decimated these tribes. Many were forcibly converted and baptized as Roman Catholics by the Franciscan missionaries at the missions...

The Catholic priests forbade the Indians from practicing their native culture, resulting in the disruption of many tribes' linguistic, spiritual, and cultural practices. With no acquired immunity to the new European diseases, and changed cultural and lifestyle demands, the population of Native American Mission Indians suffered high mortality and dramatic decreases during the mission period and after.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Indians

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)

3. What does Nathan Lane dressed as a monk....

Reply to Cartoonist (Original post)

Mon Dec 1, 2014, 11:04 PM

Dec 2014

.... and Lee Van Cleef dressed as Napoleon have to do with any of this?

I love commie scare stuff! I suppose the black man is a janitor, in his green jump suit! (and the commie beating him up seems to have just shirt cuffs, no shirt sleeves)

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)

4. I like the last panel in the first book. "Look out!, he's got a nug"

Reply to Cartoonist (Original post)

Tue Dec 2, 2014, 12:28 AM

Dec 2014

edhopper

(33,479 posts)

5. I like the 4th panel

Reply to Cartoonist (Original post)

Tue Dec 2, 2014, 11:14 AM

Dec 2014

"The greatest trash ever written, The Bible"

onager

(9,356 posts)

6. Video version of the Commie comic...

Reply to Cartoonist (Original post)

Tue Dec 2, 2014, 12:50 PM

Dec 2014

"Red Nightmare" from 1962. Narrated by Sgt. Friday himself, Jack Webb.

*SPOILER ALERT* ON-TOPIC - the local church gets turned into "The People's Museum."

progressoid

(49,945 posts)

7. Wait, what?

Reply to onager (Reply #6)

Wed Dec 3, 2014, 01:41 AM

Dec 2014

So, if Jerry goes bowling and watches TV, then communism wins?

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)

8. Those Ca-razy Commies!

Reply to onager (Reply #6)

Wed Dec 3, 2014, 04:18 PM

Dec 2014

In the original "The Manchurian Candidate" there many hysterical exchanges (tho' the garden club "dreams" are truly creepy).

One of my faves is (paraphrasing)

"Let's test him out to see if he's still working. Have him kill someone."
"Who?"
"Oh, someone here in the hospital."
"Um... y'know.... good staff is hard to find."
"Oh, OK...his boss then."

Comedy gold!

It's like Bond minions.... who die by the thousands for SPECTER. How do they get these morons to work for them???? There are hysterical outtakes from "Austin Powers" that address this. Let's see if there on YouTube.....

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AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)

9. "Now...Let's take a look at a genuine American town...."

Reply to onager (Reply #6)

Wed Dec 3, 2014, 04:22 PM

Dec 2014

Cut to Furgeson

".... and a genuine American..."

Cut to Sarah Palin

We're doomed

Lordquinton

(7,886 posts)

10. a good reminder of why the qhole "Stalin was an atheist" argument

Reply to Cartoonist (Original post)

Wed Dec 3, 2014, 08:14 PM

Dec 2014

Is from a place of bigotry. There was a huge religious movement that rose out of the red scare, pushing strongly about how they were godless, and we all had to reinforce our religiosity to show we weren't atheists like them.

Cartoonist

(7,309 posts)

11. In God We Trust

Reply to Lordquinton (Reply #10)

Wed Dec 3, 2014, 08:57 PM

Dec 2014

That was added to our money during the Red Scare for just that reason.

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)

12. In God We Trust

Reply to Cartoonist (Reply #11)

Wed Dec 3, 2014, 09:27 PM

Dec 2014

I really hate that stupid motto.

No we don't! Otherwise, why would be build bombs?

And the stupid "under god" addition to the Pledge.

"E pluribus unum" is so much better. It's about America... it's a real description that applies to the whole country, not just some of it. But I suppose Latin is for those elitists.... those fancy high falutin ejimacated snobs.

Didn't this current GOP congress waste more time and money declaring "in god we trust" was still our motto?

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