Saturday, October 25, 2008

God's President






So, what is all this talk I hear about Obama's supporters making him into a messiah?
We forget that the current President was once the object of a very fervent personality cult. And for a few, he still is.

I'm sure there are a few bishops out there ready with the holy oil to make George our first king.
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13 comments:

  1. LeonardOctober 25, 2008 at 1:09 PM

    Down at the Rapture with George...OMG, gotta run for ones eternal life!

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  2. AnonymousOctober 25, 2008 at 4:27 PM

    The Republican Creed. Trust and Obey. http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/t/r/trstobey.htm

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  3. AnonymousOctober 25, 2008 at 9:50 PM

    Tell me these pictures are satirical - please!

    I suspect they are serious about GWB adoration, though. Looks too much like "velvet art".

    NancyP

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  4. The Religious PícaroOctober 25, 2008 at 9:58 PM

    Oh, come on - some of these have got to be ironic. No one actually painted "Down at the Rapture with George" as a serious tribute to W.

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  5. CounterlightOctober 25, 2008 at 9:58 PM

    I'm afraid, Nancy P, that they are all in deadly earnest.

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  6. CounterlightOctober 25, 2008 at 10:00 PM

    "No one actually painted "Down at the Rapture with George" as a serious tribute to W."

    The title is apocryphal and probably satirical, but the image is not.

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  7. The Religious PícaroOctober 25, 2008 at 10:02 PM

    Do you mind sharing your sources? (I suffer from morbid curiosity, not doubt).

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  8. The Religious PícaroOctober 25, 2008 at 10:24 PM

    And to quibble, the fake quarter's not really religious.

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  9. KirkepiscatoidOctober 25, 2008 at 10:59 PM

    Pop over and read my latest post with a hat tip to you, Counter. You'll laugh at my lost opportunity for the mutha of all bad religous art!

    http://kirkepiscatoid.blogspot.com/2008/10/kirkepiscatoid-school-of-bad-religous.html

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  10. CounterlightOctober 26, 2008 at 8:20 AM

    RE George at the Rapture:
    All you really have to do is look at the picture itself. Satires almost always have some built in wink at the viewer. Someone decided to add one by putting on that title. If you take away the title, then you'll see the awkward labored technique of an amateur painter working from a series of photographs and Sunday school illustrations. This was somebody's labor of love, and it looks very sincere to me.

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  11. CounterlightOctober 26, 2008 at 8:23 AM

    If anything, I think the pillow is the best candidate for satire with Dubya smirking over his shoulder at Jesus. But then again, that smirk comes naturally to him.

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  12. The Religious PícaroOctober 26, 2008 at 9:17 PM

    RE: George and the Rapture

    It reminds me a lot of the art from the Watchtower. And it does look like it has a vertical crease down the middle. I've been looking around the internet trying to find a larger version of it - it's hard to tell exactly what's going on in the town in the valley.

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  13. The Religious PícaroOctober 26, 2008 at 9:38 PM

    Counterlight, take a look at this:

    http://www.eborg2.com/Jesus/Jesus-Second%20Coming/Jesus%20Second%20Coming-06.jpg

    Could this be the original, and the Bush one a "revisioning"?

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