No, I didn’t spell Christendom wrong. I am not referring to Christianity or the kingdom of the Christs, but rather I am referring to Chris Tilling’s blog Chrisendom. More specifically I am referring to his blog’s header image which I reproduce below with my observations numbered (click to enlarge).
Observation #1
I pointed this out to Tilling a few months back in a private email, but John Calvin is gearing up to give N.T. Wright (pbuh) a wet willy! As if the burning of Servetus wasn’t bad enough, now this renegade protestant wants to defile the good bishop’s ear with a finger full of French saliva! Disgusting, simply disgusting!
Observation #2
Karl Barth is either high, confused, or both. Seeing as how he is holding a pipe, it’s not hard to figure out what he’s filled it with. The heavy eyes are a dead giveaway. But then again, after having read some of his commentary on Romans, I have to conclude that he is also confused, since he’s at the very least confusing. So the answer is both, Barth is high and confused. He looks like a demented old man awaiting his dinner of cat food and prune juice.
Observation #3
Zwingli is in the back and nobody is looking at him, because, well, nobody knows who he is. We can also see in Zwingli’s hand the original manuscript to the Looney Tunes, Elmer Fudd cartoon “Duck! Rabbit, Duck!”, based loosely on his own life (notice the similarity in headgear). But once the Warner Bros. got their hands on it, they messed it up. Originally Elmer was supposed to say: “I’m sovvy, Mr. Vabbit. I hope I didn’t hurt you too much when I killed you.” The American’s pronounced those Ws like American Ws, not like Swiss/German Ws.
Observation #4
After becoming disenfranchised with Lutheran liberalism, Dietrich Boenhoffer set his sights on the founder of Lutheranism himself, Martin Luther, and began to conspire to take him out. Bultmann, being more concerned with the event itself, simply looked to the sky and pretended to not know what was going to transpire.
And these are my 4 observations about Chrisendom.
B”H
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