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I had reason to look on the Reform website this week.
I am probably alone in this, but I was mildly amused to note that the cartoon on the front page shows people drowning in a large ocean, whilst some people nearby on an enormous floating Bible look in the opposite direction through a telescope and engage in recreational fishing, each oblivious to the frantic pleas of the perishing individuals.
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Sounds like an accurate depiction. 
you’d have to laugh or you’d be crying. What I don’t get is why these people equate gospel=bible. surely even the most conservative of adherents to the bible can manage a little more sophistication in their thinking than that? Does Jesus get a look in anywhere?
Well his cross is there, which none of the happy right people seem to be noticing much (maybe it’s just a symbol!) so maybe he’s risen and sitting in heaven.
To be fair one of the drowning people is being helped aboard, although I’m sure he had to meet them half way. Or was he predestined to be saved?
It rather perturbs me to see two clouds in the background depicting a ghost like figure (maybe the holy ghost) being chased by a rabbit like creature.
Dave, until I read the bit below I thought this was one of your cartoons satirising Reform. Oh dear….
Prayed for an interpretation of the clouds and got (l-r) Mr Burns, Marge Simpson, Margaret Thatcher, the two lower ones are Homer Simpson being chased by the Gingerbread Man. The round object on the left is a Christingle orange purged of all the unbiblical elements. Or it could be a radioactive communion wafer, symbolising the harmful effects of Popery.
Hi Dave
not alone. I saw this a while ago and thought it was an ‘interesting’ cartoon. There are many comments to be made, but really, it is ‘bibliolatory’ isn’t it?
x Jody
Come now, sibings, it’s only right that people on the left and right are being left to drown while those who come round the front are helped up onto biblical salvation. The first lot are approaching the Bible in the wrong way, and deserve all they get.
I also predict that the heedless sibling with a fishing rod sitting with his feet in the waters of the world is going to be pulled in by the worlding coming up on threateningly the right.
And sibling Maggi, I think a cartoon raft made of Our Lord would be a little sacrilegious, don’t you?
It’s all a bit ‘Rapture meets The Flood’, no?
Can I ask for the RevG’s spiritual guidance on the issue of the telescope, please? Only, I can’t find reference to such a device in my Bible.
Does that mean I’ve got a dodgy version?
Perhaps it’s not a telescope, it could be someone trying to remove a plank from their eye. They’ll need it to build a raft once the book gets soggy.
Sounds a lot like William Booth (founder of Salvation Army) & his vision… example here…
Interesting that they have a cross shaped mast but no sail, what’s the point in that, in fact why would they need a sail at all, as the rest of the world looks like it’s in flood where are they going anyway?
All these worthy replies. I was just asking myself what reason you could have for looking at the Reform website at all. Unless you were looking for cartoon worthy material, in which case you must have been greatly disappointed to discover all the satire you could want on their own homepage.
Heh. Yes, indeed Simon. It’s not nearly as much fun for a cartoonist when a group like Reform manages to satirize themselves so effectively…
Thank God for Kandinsky !
I prefer his Deluge studies.
Even so Reform’s self-carichatuer is wonderful and suggests their ( or someone’s) unconscious is at work.
In Buddhism the raft is the Dahrma or practical teachings of the buddha— and is unceremiously abondoned when one reaqches the further shore –it has served its purpose. Rather like Jesus perhaps …
Yes I spotted this a while ago too. Didn’t anyone think of what happens when you place dry paper in living waters?
