Religious cartoons, Part 2

Following an earlier look at a decidedly smarmy and unfunny religious comic strip, here's another peek at faith-generated yuks. (No, I don't go looking for this stuff; this one came via the now-classic route: a "you'll love this" email making the rounds of senior citizens and the related-by-family victims on their mailing lists.)

This strip doesn't seem universally awful. An example:

The following panel was also amusing:

All right, maybe not high humor to you, but come on, it's worth a grin. Religion, like any other complex social structure, offers plenty of fodder for laughs; like the above, the jokes don't have to be sarcastically critical of religion, nor simperingly evangelical. (I'm looking at you, Johnny Hart of B.C.)

Then again, there are panels sticking closer to what you'd expect from believers:

Hey, guys, ask why your God should get anything. Set a good example for the boy, Dad; tell Yahweh to get a job and earn a living.

Barf. What do you call a "romance" in which the inescapably-powerful male "lover" promises to burn the woman alive in agony if her actions – or even thoughts – displease him? Oh yeah, a horror novel.

(Or "The Bible".)

Finally, there are a few that, oddly enough, almost seem to have been slipped in by us atheists. Like these:

Yes, polygamy-loving God has been history's prime defiler of the "sacred institution of marriage". Thanks for the reminder.

God the petty psychopath finds all kinds of little ways to torment his victims. Next:

Exactly! Submit what you read to standards of reason and evidence – but, the believers say, make an exception for a book that can't stand up to those standards. Couldn't have said it better myself.

Last one:

And it's obviously the wrong answer to the questions, parroted by a clueless dweeb. Hmm, maybe it's the wrong answer to other questions too!

Seriously, is there an atheist sneaking random comics into this series, or does the artist actually not realize what he's saying?