The Bible epilogue text can be found here (you will need to scroll down to find the exact part).

This piece was produced under a fair amount of pressure.

I had two possibilities in my mind - the Jade Goody media story was one (something about being a daughter of the media - TV birth and TV death etc) and this was the other.

I ended up with this piece because I felt it had a wider appeal that would be more useful long-term. The idea itself comes from a recent blog post by a 'coming out' atheist. The post goes into lengthy detail about why he cannot accept the faith, documenting various conversations that were had along the way. It is a very, very long post! If you do a wordle scan it produces the following image of important terms used:


Notice that Jesus is relatively small. This is a major problem with any discussion that concludes Christianity as ultimately untrue or misguided: if it doesn't major on Jesus then it has missed the point. As wonderful as churches may be, as great a framework for morality or life-organisation Christianity may be, as sensible and ordered 'christian culture' may be - it is all open to ridicule, better arguments, reasonable discredit and redundancy if you reduce Jesus from His pre-eminent and foundation place. This might sound harsh to people within or without the Christian worldview, but Jesus really is the main (and finally the only) argument.

There are loads of good reasons to go for the Christian worldview - many of which are often neglected by christians who should know better when it comes to defending their faith - but the big BIG thing is Jesus. He is the hub.

Here is my first draft of the strip which I rejected because it was too confusing. The end panel is something valuable for a section like this: don't judge a chef without tasting his special dish. If you are going to evaluate the christian faith then please please please consider Jesus so that when someone does a wordle analysis of keywords He is bigger than the image above.

Tags: atheism, apologetics, Jesus, Truth/Lies