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The Illuminated Gospel of St John

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92 points ycombinete | 6 comments | 19 Apr 25 02:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.451s | source | bottom
1. brudgers ◴[20 Apr 25 19:15 UTC] No.43745852[source]▶
Brought Robert Crumb's Book of Genesis to my mind. Maybe not your mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Genesis_(comic)

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2. o11c ◴[23 Apr 25 01:37 UTC] No.43767926[source]▶
It's almost like the message of Genesis is "y'all need Jesus" or something.
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3. markovs_gun ◴[23 Apr 25 02:37 UTC] No.43768176[source]▶
It very much isn't though, at least not to its original authors.
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4. ivape ◴[23 Apr 25 02:55 UTC] No.43768257[source]▶
How far would a father go to save his children is another way to look at it.
5. ForOldHack ◴[23 Apr 25 05:55 UTC] No.43769047[source]▶
My favorite Crumb is 'the polkadotted demon goes to church'
6. o11c ◴[23 Apr 25 06:40 UTC] No.43769282{3}[source]▶
Well, it's not the only message.

But it's important to remember that practically all Jewish scholarship as we know it came into being as an explicit refutation of Christianity, and was a fairly radical shift compared to what records we have prior to that. Regardless, "sin" is a major theme of the book no matter how you look at it.