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New graphic novel depicts Jesus beheading his foes with a whirling sword
Jihad Watch ^ | MAR 4, 2019 9:00 AM | ROBERT SPENCER

Posted on 03/04/2019 8:44:48 AM PST by robowombat

New graphic novel depicts Jesus beheading his foes with a whirling sword BY 13 COMMENTS

Joe Casey and Benjamin Marra no doubt think of themselves as cool, edgy, and courageous, unafraid to incur charges of blasphemy from furious Christians. In fact, they’re banking on those charges: “Reports say the publisher is banking on blasphemy protests to propel sales.”

This is part of the West’s cultural suicide. It’s cool, edgy and courageous to hate one’s own culture, history, and civilization, and to mock and defame its central figures. But Casey and Marra are unlikely to be as courageous when it comes to a religious figure who actually did behead his enemies. Muhammad, according to his first biographer Ibn Ishaq, beheaded between 600 and 900 men of the Jewish Qurayzah tribe after the Battle of the Trench. Will Casey and Marra publish a graphic novel about Muhammad? Not on your life. Not only would that not be courageous in the eyes of their peers, it would be “hateful” and “Islamophobic,” even if it contained accurate material drawn from Islamic sources.

“Jesus is stone-cold killer in new graphic novel,” WND, March 3, 2019:

What’s the last taboo?

Maybe it’s the new graphic novel from Image Comics, publisher of “The Walking Dead” series and other hits – “Jesusfreak,” in which Jesus of Nazareth is portrayed as a stone-cold killer.

Oh, and by the way, it comes out just in time for Lent.

The previews show the Messiah beheading foes with a whirling sword.

Promotional material explains: “The year is 26 C.E. A young Nazarean carpenter is having some trouble adjusting to the violent world around him – and finding his place within it. He knows he’s different, but he doesn’t know why. Not yet, anyway. A bloody, two-fisted tale of historical heroic fiction …”

Reports say the publisher is banking on blasphemy protests to propel sales.

“‘Jesusfreak’ is less inspired by any strict religious traditions and is instead more concerned with exploring the unique tension that exists between depicting a mythical figure and a historical figure – a tension that is compounded when, for many, they’re considered the same person,” said Joe Casey, the writer, when the project was first announced.

“It’s also a chance for [co-writer Benjamin] Marra and I to indulge in a specific style of hard-pulp storytelling that we think perfectly fits this material.”


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Religion; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: benjaminmarra; blasphemy; joecasey; muslimjesus; rop
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1 posted on 03/04/2019 8:44:48 AM PST by robowombat
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To: robowombat

Who wants to read about Muslim Jesus?


2 posted on 03/04/2019 8:46:38 AM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: MrEdd

Muzzies??


3 posted on 03/04/2019 8:48:44 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: MrEdd
Who wants to read about Muslim Jesus?

My thought exactly.

The Muslim Jesus will return and slaughter infidels.

4 posted on 03/04/2019 8:49:30 AM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: MrEdd

That’s no way to portray the Prince of Peace!


5 posted on 03/04/2019 8:52:02 AM PST by equaviator
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To: robowombat

Well, Jesus is supposed to come back the second time with a sword in His mouth astride a white warhorse to do battle with the anti-christ and his minions, so there will most likely be heads rolling and bodies being stacked....


6 posted on 03/04/2019 8:52:43 AM PST by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: MrEdd

Globalists are telling us the future world religion is “Chrislam”

Maybe this is it?


7 posted on 03/04/2019 8:52:46 AM PST by PGR88
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To: robowombat

Their only mistake was setting the story in 26 AD instead of 2024 AD. The two edged sword comes out of His mouth.


8 posted on 03/04/2019 8:57:24 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: robowombat

Me thinks blasphemy is not well-received by our Creator. Vengeance belongs to the Lord. Hard not to grieve over the pathetic state of mankind.


9 posted on 03/04/2019 9:01:55 AM PST by RatRipper
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To: robowombat

Sounds like Mad Mo to me.


10 posted on 03/04/2019 9:04:51 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: robowombat

They have him confused with Mohammed.


11 posted on 03/04/2019 9:05:54 AM PST by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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12 posted on 03/04/2019 9:20:14 AM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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To: SubMareener
The two edged sword comes out of His mouth.

And his chief enemies are seen falling into the Pit of Hell.

13 posted on 03/04/2019 9:24:58 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker
That's just silly. Either the shotgun is a pump-action or an Over/Under... not both.

Interesting that God has a Kalashnikov.

14 posted on 03/04/2019 9:50:14 AM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: robowombat

This is silly and shameful sensationalism. The real story is a lot more compelling and should be a lot scarier for the readers of this comic book. Jesus won’t run around like a Ninja beheading people, but he will condemn the wicked to eternal damnation. They need to think long and hard about that.


15 posted on 03/04/2019 9:50:25 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: equaviator

“Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;”

Thessalonians

“I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war.

His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself.

He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God.

The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean.

Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.” He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty.

Revelation


16 posted on 03/04/2019 10:05:34 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Mathews

Bingo. This is actually not that far off.


17 posted on 03/04/2019 10:24:49 AM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Upt)
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To: robowombat

what does jesus need with a sword?

what does god need with a starship?


18 posted on 03/04/2019 11:43:48 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: robowombat

Read Revelations. It won’t be pretty.


19 posted on 03/04/2019 11:47:06 AM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: equaviator

1) This stuff is probably blasphemous, or they wouldn’t be publishing it.

2) The answer to the questions “what would Jesus do?” involves a whip and the overturning of tables.

3) Jesus isn’t just the Prince of Peace. He’s also the Lion of Judah.


20 posted on 03/04/2019 11:51:23 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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