Just when I thought Sunday comics couldn’t get any worse, along comes the piece de resistance… “Heaven’s Love Thrift Shop.” This strip is the creation of Kevin Frank who claims that the goal of this comic is to simply remind people that there is a God and that he loves you.
Awwww, isn’t that nice of them. You know I almost forgot about God except for the fact that it’s printed on my currency, displayed in public buildings, and on every street corner in America in the form of churches. And don’t forget about our President always mentioning him in speeches. And then there’s a legal battles over creationism in public schools. Other than that, sure… you would hardly know about God.
Christian Guy Gilchrist, creator of "Your Angels Speak" had this to say,
But I want the angels to be accessible. Hopefully people that are afraid of organized religion or questions of faith can find this and possibly consider that there is a God or a higher power.
Earth to Guy, we’re not AFRAID of organized religion, we’re just sick and tired of you pushing it on us and trying to drive public policy. All we ask is that you keep religion to yourself and if anyone is interested in it, they’ll pop in a church and inquire on their own. As for considering there is a God, well I have… and I found there to be a lack of sufficient evidence.
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Don’t BC and Family Circus already handle the niche of Sunday Paper comic designed to remind you of God and Jesus with throat packing prostheletizing thinly disguised as cute jokes? Do we really need another one?
The aparent answer is yes.
As a former Catholic, who went to a catholic school for a short time and spent a few years as an alter boy (and made it out of that with my virginity intact by the grace of my priests not being pedophiles), I don’t think I’ve enough god thrown in my face. With only 5 Christian Channels on my cable package of 50 channels I almost never see it (10% for shame cable TV, how dare you be so anti-christian!) I mean, there are only 10 churches that have bigger construction budgets than the local schools near where I live. If only more people would do their part of Stripping low-income black families of their extra money, we’d have more and bigger mega churches! So what if their son will never have a computer, never go to a museum, or have a college fund. All they really need is a 2 acre, 3 story tall church with an ATM in the lobby and a millionaire behind the podium!
We need more god in our lives. This strip opened my eyes! I’m not angry at these so called “injustices” commited by organized religion. I’m just afraid to face that I really only need god.
Please people. I can talk evolution for days and never convice a creationist. What makes you think that a little 8 panel sunday comic strip is going to convice me? I just skip to The Boondocks any how.
I thank all of them who mention my name in any type.
and don’t say anything bad about me cause I will kill you at night or I will put you in jail.
I’M THE ALMIGHTY.
fuck god and his almighty shit
why is every form of christian-themed modern art downright terrible? music, movies, comics… obviously old and classic european art can not be included there…
Because they’ve stripped their religion of all of its deep symbolism and meaning and polished it off with a thin veneer of melted cotton candy.
I’ll say :/
But *groan* to yet another force-fed instance of this. We don’t have christian themed comics in our papers here in Australia, the only remotely chrisitian thing is a little verse from the bible in the “letters-to-the-editor” section.
I can’t imagine having so much christianity around you, it can’t be healthy to have such an imposing monoculture, especially for kids.
Mr. Frank, who calls his strip a ministry, said he took satisfaction in placing Christian messages in secular newspapers. “It’s sneaky,†he said. “People in papers are bending over backwards not to portray the beliefs of people of faith, so I feel great to be breaking into that.â€
Oh gee, thankyou. The cartoon is pretty damned lame too, I hope that if they continue like this it will be self-limiting :/
Now that you mention it, I do wonder where the not lame Christian stuff is. I mean, there exists Christian themed stuff that’s not lame, but that’s generally more about the mythology than the message. It’s maybe another subversive way to get the message out, by making shitty movies like Constantine (from what I understand, the comic it’s based on isn’t particularly pro Jesus, strangely enough). But do people really become interested in religion, after being surrounded by it all their lives, because of a movie or a comic strip?
I guess I liked Dogma, but it also was a lot about mythology and it wasn’t friendly to organized religion.
So yeah, is there no good Jesus art these days, or have I just not seen it, or do I just block it out? I admit, whenever I hear a ‘punk’ band talk about Jesus I stop listening.
Those comics appear to be more mockery than menacing. The cell phone strip, for instance, puts the faith-pushing character rank and file with other annoying and obnoxious individuals. Never mind the eBay strip making them all out to be greedy nitwits. Good show, I say! Keep it up, Mr. Frank!
Just noticed Mr. Frank’s stance on Apple users. Yes, I suppose we are a bunch of godless, heathen hippies.
well, i saw a table for my local college ‘christian fellowship’
they had a question they offered a popsicle, but i declined.
“What would you change about organized religion?”
I offered them an answer and a question.
“Take the organize out of it”
“Can you name a religion without conflict over the religion?”
they didn’t have an answer, so I provided one.
“Shintoism. Make up a God and noone cares.”
Its largely unorganized.
Ha ha ha!
Very nice…
There is good Christian art, it’s just that these days it seems that like any other art with a mission or an agenda the good stuff is hard to find. What compunds that is the fact that if you aren’t Christian then like Aaron you probably shut your ears and if you are then yo ugrasp at just about anything.
Good Christian lit – Ted Dekker
good christian music – Chris Rice or the guy that our host posted
I’m not aware of any good Christian visual artists, but then I’m not aware of any good visual artists period.
Of course there are more if you are willing to wade through the dross.
I vote Norma Jean and Zao for the music category
Zao and Norma Jean don’t coun’t, their hardcore bands and you can’t understand whats being said. And norma jean went downhill after they lost their singer, but i hear they still put on a good live show. As far as christian hardcore goes i prefer Becoming the Archetype.
Has anyone read them? The some of the sample ones are pretty funny. I swear it. Yeah, it is a way to force feed us a religion, but don’t we have mind filters for that? I mean read it and then say ‘well that first line was trying to push the natural family agenda, but the punchline was cute.’ People can read/see things and not be affected by them.
Yeah, I read the samples, but most of them went over my head. Seemed like they could have been funny if I just knew what they were referring to.
I read them, and they weren’t funny. If I wanted to have some soap thrown at my brain and get a laugh, I’d watch the evangelicals selling “miracle water” on TV.
Your Father, the biggest irony of your post is that when I looked at it, the googleAd attached to the bottom was for Miracle Water.
Excuse me, I just drank too much beer and now I have to go make some Miracle Water for my Chruch…
Seriously, has anyone seen the shows peddling miracle water? It’s absurd. They (rich and uneducated) get a bunch of lower class uneducated (needy and gullible) people to say stuff like “I took miracle water and [insert random good thing] happened to me! Praise Jesus!”
There’s just so many things wrong with it that it hurts my brain thinking about it. I have little doubt that there is a surplus of people who’s miserable lives remained miserable after using the water. They don’t even have the curtousy of doing some kind of study to show that people are more likely to have good things happen when they use the water… they just only show people who happen to have good things happen to them.
Not only that, but it takes advantage of these poor fools in the worst kind of way. It makes them believe that they can just rely on some voodoo to makes their lives better instead of actually helping themselves. These evangelicals are the worst kind of evil, and they’ll never open their minds enough to see what they’re doing (or they have and they just don’t care).
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i agree with most of u. Some christians always claim that we should abandon all other faiths and follow christianity, because it’s the ‘true’ religion. but its the stuff they do and the ways they treat some people makes me worried. just like what Your Father says, they take advantage of people less unfortunate than themselves, make them say something sometimes totally ridiculous and put it on tv, so that they could attract some people’s attention. how sad.
another thing. jesus says to love one and all, even if they are your enemies. well guess what? i dont suppose smashing people’s homes, killing innocent lives and enslaving survivors isnt bad. tsk tsk
and to try and make comics out of biblical characters?? oh come on! as if that’s gonna make the whole world stop and watch, or hope it to make a blockbuster out of that. sorry guys.
im not saying all christians are mean. most of them, in my experience are very considerate and kind. but there are some of them who just have to ruin it all.
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Wow. That’s depressing. I agree that we have enough s**t that reminds us of the ,” higher power”. Since this is my first post, let me put this out. Just because I’m 11 doesn’t mean that I am misled or controlled. I have a mom and a stepdad who are both Christian and disagree with me. I have a few other friends who agree with me, but I don’t believe in it because they do. I believe in it because there is proof that there was no ,” Garden of Eden”.f***ing science! So don’t give me any crap about being ,”misled”. It’s my own choice!
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