I thought this was a funny picture in light of the frustrations many Atheists, Agnostics, seekers and Christians have with the issue of faith.
At face value faith is a very problematic idea in light of the many real challenges facing faith in this troublesome world. There is much evidence around us that seems to betray the message that there is a loving God who is unfolding a redemptive plan for this broken world. Sometimes the believing community fails to answer those questions with satisfactory answers and often, there isn't an answer that seems worthy of the questions.
This comic portrayed some of that irony, not to belittle the real need or desire for answers, but we Christians have to laugh at ourselves sometimes too.
Sam Fletcher | Jul 19, 2012 | 3:39pm
I don’t actually have a problematic faith because my faith has built in to it that people change and we are more enlightened than people were 3,000 years ago. We don’t have to throw away the entire judeo-christian tradition because some ancient people were, more or less, as bloodthirsty and barbaric as every single other person on the earth (and happened to somehow write this amazing collection of books we call the Bible). We don’t have to be as barbaric and pretend to be as unenlightened as they were to know the value of “love your neighbor as yourself” and “god provided manna in the desert”. We don’t have to pretend that these people knew everything there is to know about the creator of life, even if they sometimes claimed to.
And we especially don’t have to force ourselves to pretend evidence of how the real world really is in real life just doesn’t exist.
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