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  Comment by Helen — August 23, 2012 @ 8:08 am

  The floodgates will open on this one! I’m staying out of it! But I’ll be checking back regularly to keep ABREAST of developments!! (Couldn’t resist getting this one in first!!)

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  Comment by Rich — August 23, 2012 @ 8:33 am

  Imagine the problems she’d have with Venus de Milo. Or the painting of the birth of Aphrodite. Or the problem she’d have with this scripture (the Bible? Oh No!):

  Your stature is like that of the palm,
  and your breasts like clusters of fruit. I said, “I will climb the palm tree;
  I will take hold of its fruit.”
  May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine,
  the fragrance of your breath like apples, and your mouth like the best wine. (Song of Solomon 7:7-9 NIV)

  You may wish you had never opened this can of worms.

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  Comment by Tyler Rock — August 23, 2012 @ 8:40 am

  I am not sure what you are trying “to get across” by this “cartoon”…?
  However I find this disturbing and in very bad taste…

  To bring the Mother Of Our Lord and Baby Jesus into this, is appalling to say the least…

  Wow…we are in the last days

  Only Christ Saves

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  Comment by Bob the Luthercostel — August 23, 2012 @ 9:24 am

  I think The Sacred Sandwich opened a can of Carnation Condensed Milk from a contented Madonna on this one. I do not find this disturbing and in bad taste, because if Jesus would be here now on earth doing the same things he did back then as true man(baby-while also being true God)He really would be mocked by judgemental people (which I would include myself). Walking around in just a loin cloth? Not bathing for days? Eating insects off the floor? How gauche?
  Bad taste? I say not if you are not making fun of Jesus getting his nourishment as a baby (which The Sacred Sandwich is doing-not making fun of that)but making fun of the judgemental.
  “You will drink the milk of nations and be nursed at royal breasts. Then you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.” Isaiah 60:16

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  Comment by Daddy-O — August 23, 2012 @ 12:23 pm

  I was filling in for my pastor one Sunday, and while I was giving the message a woman decided to breast feed her child.

  We had a nursing mom’s room she chose not to use. Okay, no problem. I can roll with it. But she also decides NOT to use the customary blanket to drape over herself, and her child. She just goes for it plein air style! Free range! Whatever you wanna call it!

  Man… that was distracting.

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  Comment by K.T. — August 23, 2012 @ 1:04 pm

  The nerve! I am *sure* that while teaching/preaching/doing Jesusy things way back when, our Lord would have been distracted and appalled to see women nursing their babies while listening to his words. He probably gave them dirty looks and “encouraged” them to go hide beyond yonder hills to do such an indecent thing, regardless of whether they were still in earshot of his sermon.

  Yes, to bring the Mother of our Lord, and Baby Jesus, into this is such bad taste. She would never have chosen to feed her baby in public, with the breasts full of milk that God gave her (designated for breastfeeding purposes,) and Jesus (being God and all,) would never have EATEN in public! (Oh, wait a minute…)

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  Comment by Daddy-O — August 23, 2012 @ 2:10 pm

  K.T….

  I’m sure the Lord wouldn’t have been distracted, but I sure was.

  You know… me not being sinless, and everything.

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  Comment by Angus — August 23, 2012 @ 4:00 pm

  This cartoon is evidence that we’re in the last days?? “Wow” is right.

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  Comment by Angus — August 23, 2012 @ 4:24 pm

  By the way, it might be necessary for some to take notice that I didn’t draw a Madonna and child to go with the rest of the cartoon. There’s a reason why I used one of the many many examples of this traditional iconic Christian imagery that has been displayed publicly in churches and museums for centuries. ‘Nuff said.

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  Comment by Les — August 23, 2012 @ 4:35 pm

  The nerve, this Madonna is showing up to nurse in a line cartoon while in color and in 3D.

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  Comment by Helen — August 23, 2012 @ 5:04 pm

  Ah, now I understand Angus!

  Perhaps this slap happy Spanish pensioner could come to everyone’s rescue: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/9494838/Restoration-nightmare-Spanish-pensioner-says-she-needed-more-time-to-finish-fresco-repair.html

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  Comment by Dominic Stockford — August 24, 2012 @ 3:31 am

  why is a child of that age (at least three I guess from its size) still breast-feeding? What does that woman think? Does she think everything she does is right?

  (in case this comment is too obscure, it is a joke on Romanism and ’sinless’)

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  Comment by Les — August 24, 2012 @ 10:48 am

  Angus, is this Madonna with child by Giotto? I’ve been searching around and can’t place the artist but I figured it was some dead Italian guy for sure.

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  Comment by gumbymonster — August 24, 2012 @ 1:54 pm

  It’s just a picture, and I’m sure they didn’t actually look like that. My Roman Catholic friends be careful when making graven images, they are not to be made, venorated, or worshipped. Just a friendly reminder of the 2nd commandment.

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  Comment by Angus — August 24, 2012 @ 3:54 pm

  The artist was Lippo Memmi. Yep, you got it: a dead Italian guy. Really dead.

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  Comment by Les — August 25, 2012 @ 2:04 pm

  Thanks Angus, I knew you didn’t do it because you aren’t a really dead, or even kinda dead, Italian guy. Thanks for the heads up on Lippo too, I’d never heard of him.

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  Comment by Stephen Cracknell — August 26, 2012 @ 9:40 pm

  I’d like to thank you too Angus. It seems to me that kid sure has his ‘Lippo’ on his ‘Memmi’!

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  Comment by Kate Akele — August 27, 2012 @ 5:26 am

  I guess Miss Piggy breastfeeding her piglets too would get an earful from Madam Prig here. I guess she’d have an opinion on Tim Tebow’s ‘Christlike’ pose too. Sheesh!

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  Comment by Angus — August 27, 2012 @ 6:12 pm

  Had no idea I was playing straight man to Mr. Cracknell. *face palm*

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  Comment by Stephen Cracknell — August 27, 2012 @ 10:03 pm

  One of my best Angus, one of my best!

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  Comment by Ray Baize — September 1, 2012 @ 6:42 am

  A closer look reveals that this isn’t Mary, but Zoey, Mary’s twin, the family’s troubled child. And adding to the disgace, the baby looks more like the local publican,than Zoey’s husband, Ishmael,the President of the 1%’ers of the local Camel racers-the Ishmaelites. History records that Ishmael’s reaction to this scandel occurred in the early part of 70 AD, and Rome’s reaction to this is well recorded. When asked about this painting years later, Mary simply said:”Every family has one, but she’s still family.”

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  Comment by Carol — September 5, 2012 @ 12:56 pm

  What a can of worms had been opened here. Using a “graven image” painted by a dead Italian guy, of a three year old Jesus still being breast fed…and only 9 years later debating with religious leaders in Jerusalem….Mary could have at least used her prayer shawl to cover him up and in the event he may have spit some back up…

  Oh my!

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