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submitted 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) by TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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Original post : https://bsky.app/profile/adamtots.bsky.social/post/3m5xbwflvjk2m

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 49 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Wow, quite wild to see some Lemmings get wooshed this hard by an Adam Ellis comic. Though I guess it's mostly aimed at his audience on Bluesky or Reddit. I follow him on the former. He's been experimenting a lot ever since he left Buzzfeed.

Anyway, look at the exaggerated arch in his back. Look at the barbie-font Jesus poster. Acknowledge Ellis' work is often very LGBT (when it's not horror, lol). He's poking fun at hypocrite religious folks, or maybe he's making fun of how very gay it is to get on your knees for Jesus. Or maybe however you interpret it... I mostly just giggled at that fucking ARCH of a back.

Basically, Christianity is so gay, lol.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, I mean there's not a big huge punchline, but this was clearly a bit of a general send-up, and also prodding at a very specific "Tim Tebow" type of muscular Christianity.

That type of Christian man is big and strong, but also extremely manicured and soft-spoken (even while saying the usual heinous shit) and "effeminate" by certain heteronormative standards. The look and vibe lends itself to fairly easy jokes about men who are closeted or so naive they don't realize they're closeted, which will needle some and maybe give others food for thought. Anybody who's spent time in the Bible Belt will have met the dude in this comic, and maybe his wife.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Does an exaggerated arch suggest fellatio? I think I get the premise, but I'm not 100% confident.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I think so. It's also really feminine which is counter to the alpha male thing.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 13 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

As someone unfamiliar this was definitely a Poe's law type of post

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Agreed. It's way easier to get in context from his bluesky, he doesn't call his comics Christian Comix lol.

[–] NaibofTabr 6 points 3 hours ago

Do you have the love of Jesus inside you?

[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 42 points 7 hours ago

He's got that superheroine spine lmao.

[–] Naho_Zako@piefed.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

Almost thought this was a Mango Pablo ("I did it... I saved the town" guy) post...

[–] Actionschnils@feddit.org 7 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I dont get it ... Or is it just homophobic?

[–] Bgugi@lemmy.world 74 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

It's a gay comic by a gay man about how gay it is to get on your knees and beg for a man (or two guys and their enby buddy) to give you what you want.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

Gotta get down on my knees & please Jesus.

[–] garth@sh.itjust.works 34 points 6 hours ago

two guys and their enby buddy

I love it. The woke Holy Trinity.

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 32 points 7 hours ago

I’m pretty sure the joke is a gay thirst trap

[–] Swaus01@piefed.social 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I won't object to someone doing this as long as they shut up about it, don't boast to me about it, and basically don't say any of that stuff in the speech bubbles under any circumstances. I find that these kinds of people are unbearable and eat other Christians alive rather than nurturing a community.

[–] Greddan@feddit.org 8 points 5 hours ago

Eating people alive is pretty damn important in Christianity. They made a whole ass ritual about it. Sick cultists as they are.