I perceive some internal contradiction in the cartoons. On one level, the cartoonist is having absurdist fun with the idea of a consumer-driven church -- this I suppose being the final stop on the hypocritical road the Church has supposedly taken. On another level, he seems to be suggesting that this degradation is just what's needed for an organisation that's done so much to frustrate and expose he "progressive" agenda that he'd like to see enacted.
Flannery O'Connor observed that "it's a Protestant habit to condemn the Church both for being authoritarian and foe being not authoritarian enough."
I might add that it's an adolescent habit to condemn adult hypocrisy while longing to get into the game oneself.
KI1 14:22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.KI1 14:23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
KI1 14:24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
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KI1 15:11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.
KI1 15:12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
I have read that the primary objective of an editorial cartoonist is to get people to think.I think the character representing the church looks like cardinal Mahoney sans glasses.