I’m not at all sure what the designer was thinking of here, but apparently this was the cover of a religious magazine.
What is that supposed to be? I was thinking an appropriate subtitle would be Faith: the poop-nugget in the butt-crack of life
, but I really doubt that that was the message they were going for.
Hah, that is just awesome. Whoever was responsible for the cover design has done this intentionally (high-five to them). No way someone can be that clueless.
What about “Faith: the eternal asshole of the mind”
@Saad
Really? Here in Canada we had a party name itself the Conservative-Reform Alliance Party.
Whoever decided it was a good idea to light that picture in such a way that you can’t see the fingernail is probably in a lot of trouble right now.
You’re so full of doubt. You just have to believe. I mean, I’m sure sophistimicated theologists have a way of reconciling this. Haven’t you ever seen a dog dragging its ass on the carpet? Isn’t it wonderful? (Indeed, aren’t anuses themselves wonderful and possibly magical?) Why else would a god have put it there, if not to be spread out to the four corners of the world as it were? And of course, even the smallest dingleberry can change the course of the future, etc., etc. (this could go on for a while I think). Just like faith.
That seems like a really (perhaps deliberately) low res scan. I wonder if in the actual picture is quite so egregious.
I’m think this might be a church bulletin cover, and they do have to pump those out weekly, so then again, maybe it really is that bad.
In any case, I never really liked that verse, because it promises Christians that they could have super powers if only they didn’t suck so much. The three responses to that being a) “Bullshit” b) “Wow, we do suck.” or c) “I do have super-powers, behold my lucrative scam!”
#4 anteprepro
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
that picture appears all over the place, with some worse than others due to different brightness levels https://www.facebook.com/pages/Faith-As-a-Grain-of-Mustard-Seed/623598591001698?sk=timeline&ref=page_internal
But people of Faith don’t think about butts! So the photo is OK!!!
Next issue: FAITH – As capacious as a goatse.
Any chance this will be the new dress color craze?
Buttcrack with dingleberry or fingers holding mustard seed?
It’s from Matthew 17:20
(New International Version) He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
Disclaimer: somewhere in the vague recollection that is my memory I heard a sermon about this in my youth (before realizing I was an Atheist).
Faith! The source revealed!
(See centre-spread for details)
richarddelguru @ 9
Which is why I’m wildly to bet that the religious have a much higher rate of untreated colon cancer than nonbelievers. ;)
………we know that.
The picture looks like a butt, though. *headpat*
Make sure to grab yourself a copy. It’s a real cheek-turner.
I see fingers with nails and papillary ridges holding a seed.
Subtitled “Caution: Theology In Progress”
Come to think of it, this might shed new light on the story of Balaam, whose ass spoke wisdom.
You can’t fool me his time! It’s blue and gold, period.
… and doesn’t really grow bigger than a weed.
Also, with correlates:
Using allelopathic means to clear the stand from other weeds.
May be processed as a spice that marries well with sausages. And sauerkraut.
(mathematically inclined can further find some way for more complex returns with “If f = u”).
From a commercial design perspective the cover is pure genius. It grabs your attention because at first ‘read’ it appears sexually transgressive but a closer look reveals it is just fingers and a mustard seed, ya pervert. Something’s wrong with you, and lookie here, a magazine that will fix yer pervy ways. Brilliant.
It- it winked at me!
This cracks me up!
Thanks, I needed the laugh! Actually I can’t stop, so also thanks for ruining my work this morning…
I don’t get why the ‘faith the size of a mustard seed can move mountains’ thing is still a thing. My best guess is that if someone demands to see geologic scale telekinesis, they can assert anyone who attempts a demonstration as having faith smaller than a mustard seed when they fail. This consequence would end up discouraging anyone who thinks they have lot of faith from actually trying it and finding out it’s bunk, ironically encouraging them to aspire to a mediocre level of faith.
Muhammad was smart enough to go to the mountain.
Gurl, that’s a booty hole! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aahPUCyS5Qo
If you cover the top left 2/3 of the picture, the remaining finger looks like a boob.
I need to get my mind washed out with soap.
Faith, touching cloth since 37 A.D.
Matthew 17:20 suggests that with even a tiny amount of faith, a believer can move a tree. But J-dog had to whip the fig tree. One of my favorite contradictions in the bible.
what is it with the bible religion that it needs to make clearly impossible claims that no one could really believe are true?
uncle frogy
Obviously, it’s not what it’s cracked up to be.
Speaking of faith, I was curious about Kent Hovind’s trial. PZ posted about it a little while ago, but unless I missed it, he didn’t post about the result. He was found guilty on the 12th March 2015, sentencing will be in June. I’m a bit conflicted, because… well, while I have little sympathy for him, at this point it seems like his blinkers may cost him several more years of freedom. He’s a victim of his fucked-up ideology. Or am I too lenient?
Will you lot please stop arsing around and get back to the subject at hand!
Oh.
Somebody needs to send this to Sly Stallone’s mother for a reading.
Somehow I’m equally reminded of Jesus and a dog.
I’m going to be a buzzkill and post a higher quality image of the cover. Here is another version.
I’ve never really understood the enormous emphasis that Christians place on mere belief, especially as something that’s somehow more important than your actions and what you actually do in your life. Then again, I never was a Christian.
Buttplugs that small can be really dangerous.
Faith is one of the stronger arguments against the existence of gods. If goddists had good evidence for gods then they wouldn’t find enough ten foot poles not to touch faith. But since they don’t have evidence supporting their beliefs, they fall back on faith aka wishful thinking. They’ve been using faith for so long that they’ve even convinced themselves it’s a virtue.
“Faith: Responsible for more skid marks on the shorts of Humanity than all the other bad ideas put together.”
Jesus said:
It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth. (Mark 4:31)
But Jesus was wrong:
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/images/tinysd3b.jpg
Suddenly, I have this urge to Photoshop some nippies in the appropriate places.
If you look close enough, the seed itself appears to be “buttocked” as well.
What a pile!
Am I really the only one who saw a penis? Yes?
Oh well, I probably just have them on the brain.
Rawnaeris,
Great. Now I can’t unsee it. Quite a zoomed in shot of it too.
Hey, maybe this really could be the new dress!
Mustard seeds are yellow.
@ Saad, you’re welcome ^_^
*gigglefits*
Since we’re doing pareidolia…
I’m not seeing Jesus or JesusMom.
What’s wrong with me?
Ain’t that a peach!?!
Faith is a prairie dog?
Rawnaeris:
I, too, saw a circumcised penis. So did Wife.
Chigau:
Some are. But there is brown mustard. Different varietals.
“Faith: About as big as a grape but much easier to smuggle”
How about “Faith: the laxative to heaven for the constipated soul” or “Faith: the suppository for salvation”
Been thinking of those since the crack of dawn. I hope I’m not being too cheeky.
Someone had fun with blurring effects and this image:
http://jefftyner.theworldrace.org/blogphotos/theworldrace/jefftyner/MustardSeed_(1).jpg