Why the word "claim"?
Do you harbour the belief that people who tell you that they don't believe something actually do believe it?
It's a claim that they make; its not for me or anyone else here to make a judgement on what they say as that particular decision is between God and an individual.
Given that we're talking here about a cartoon (albeit one with a point to make, which it does), as far as you're concerned humour is very much something that other people do, isn't it?
NO, its just that very often cartoons can actually tell two stories, and there will be some who simply don't realise that they are as much the target of the joke as anyone else. Over the months I known those I gave as examples you have all judged the Bible as if it means exactly what it says in the English of the 21st Century, forgetting that 1) it wasn't originally written in English, 2) that in some cases (and here Sass can join the party) the English that we are accustomed to seeing in it has changed meaning over time, and 3) very rarely does the full meaning of a word get transferred when translating that word into a different language.
Additionally, the current discussion about oral and literary traditions show how stuck in the 20th and 21st centuries several of you are as you insist on understanding the Bible exclusively through the filters that modern Western life, with its almost exclusive reliance on a literary tradition of communication impose on each of us.
