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Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga - Jesus

I'm guessing you are just having a Hissy-fit because *gasp* someone has a different opinion/take than you. Shock!

Also I'm still trying to figure out how Christians could say that this is disrespectful yet say "you don't believe in what I believe, therefore you are going to hell".

This manga sounds like a more entertaing piece of fiction than the Bible. *zing!*

Anyway, our current artist is Azumi Ryo, and you can see a preview page (textless) from 2008's Manga Mutiny HERE. Manga Mutiny and Manga Melech (both by Azumi-san) can be purchased from Amazon and MIGHT be found at your nearest Barnes and Noble or Borders, but they have a tendency to put us in the "Christian Inspiration" section instead of the manga section , so you may have to search a place you wouldn't normally go. And I hope that doesn't sound like an advertisement, because I know we're not supposed to do that here. I just want to let you know where you can see her work.

Le sigh. I had actually recently read the first few pages of it, and it seemed like it would be a largely-accurate, or at least an interesting read as far as the New Testament account is concerned. Plus, I was generally impressed by the art. I dunno...

On one hand, I think it would be awesome to have a heartfelt and interesting graphic novel portrayal of Christ-- not only written by a believer and talented writer, but drawn by a realism-oriented artist. Whatever would become "added in" could give more detail to the physical/cultural setting and emphasize qualities that may be hard to pick up on Christ's character upon non-contemplative reading.

Yet on the other, there are thousands upon thousands of readings that can be made of the Bible, and there are different points of emphasis to Christ, even among even Evangelical writers. Plus, as wonderful as it would be to reach a new audience with a graphic-novelization, "manga" (or, to a far greater, the super-artificial "manga style" employed by some American artists) isn't necessary to communicate Christ's message. The Bible certainly stands superbly on its own. And it seems to have been communicated well at least ONCE through pretty much every other media format out there, not to mention through the countless mission trips and out-reach ministries out there.

Still, I'm a great lover of graphic novels. Maybe there's already a superb graphic novelization out there on Christ and I'm missing out...

(Btw-- I probably won't mind reading that Jesus/Buddha manga for chuckles. Its first chapter already got a few out of me)

As for the portrayal in this manga, it probably would be offensive to some Christians, as a preacher's kid, I do think it's kind of boring, especially since Jesus seems to be portrayed as the guy caught in the middle of everything.

Just as a note, Jesus wasn't always "nice". He went into the temple, saw they were selling things, got mad, made a whip out of leather, and then chased them out of there with it. He offended the religious leaders A LOT and that's why they wanted Him to die, is because he ticked them off a lot by constantly calling them hypocrites and false teachers

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I'm guessing you are just having a Hissy-fit because *gasp* someone has a different opinion/take than you. Shock! Also I'm still trying to figure out how Christians could say that this is disrespectful yet say "you don't believe in what I believe, therefore you are going to hell".

- Fallen Wings

Aren't you having a hissy-fit because someone has a different opinion then you? Double standards much?

kitsune_otoko wrote:

Quote: I'm guessing you are just having a Hissy-fit because *gasp* someone has a different opinion/take than you. Shock! Also I'm still trying to figure out how Christians could say that this is disrespectful yet say "you don't believe in what I believe, therefore you are going to hell". - Fallen Wings Aren't you having a hissy-fit because someone has a different opinion then you? Double standards much?

Er, nope. I'm not.

Obviously you really need to understand what a hissy-fit is. Basically it is when someone throws a tantrum like a little child about something that isn't that big a deal. Aka, "Why do this at all. This is disrespectful. Tigers go om nom nom at your hands" etc

All I did was say, in a very satire way I must admit, that he was acting like a child. Then propose that perhaps his beliefs themselves are disrespectful (I did not say they were - I said I was still figuring it out).

And considering I didn't throw a hissy-fit, didn't even say that his beliefs sucked (not that I believe his beliefs suck - that is against MY religion) - and whatever your belief of "double standard" is, it doesn't apply.

But now I have just done a little hissy-fit to try and explain to you I didn't. Now THAT is irony.

*crawls into bed and orders in Jesus via Internets*

In that case, my bad. It just sounded to me like there was a little bit of a bite to your post.

Sorry.

We coo?

Edit: I do know what a hissy-fit is. It just sounded to me like you were a touch riled by the fact that he had a different opinion, hence the double-standard.

No hard feelings, though, right?