{"id":213,"date":"2009-04-06T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/omeoflittlefaith\/2009\/04\/mashup-family-circus-jonathan-edwards.html"},"modified":"2009-04-06T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T08:32:00","slug":"mashup-family-circus-jonathan-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/omeoflittlefaith\/2009\/04\/mashup-family-circus-jonathan-edwards.html","title":{"rendered":"Mashup: Family Circus + Jonathan Edwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>While taking a shower on Saturday, <\/span>I had this thought: <span style=\"font-style: italic\">What if you combined the gentle humor of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.familycircus.com\/\"><span>Family Circus<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic\"> with the hellfire Puritan preaching of the great 18th century American theologian <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jonathan_Edwards_%28theologian%29\">Jonathan Edwards<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic\">?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The answer, of course, is that you would end up with something very similar to this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_HXZOhc9ASlo\/SdoFv08exzI\/AAAAAAAAAQ8\/3eMel5G7_N4\/s1600-h\/fc.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer;width: 300px;height: 308px\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_HXZOhc9ASlo\/SdoFv08exzI\/AAAAAAAAAQ8\/3eMel5G7_N4\/s320\/fc.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_HXZOhc9ASlo\/SdoFzrmOGUI\/AAAAAAAAARE\/yhRwrui1Vb4\/s1600-h\/fc2.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer;width: 300px;height: 308px\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_HXZOhc9ASlo\/SdoFzrmOGUI\/AAAAAAAAARE\/yhRwrui1Vb4\/s320\/fc2.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_HXZOhc9ASlo\/SdoF37H3qXI\/AAAAAAAAARM\/sycmgafExlA\/s1600-h\/fc3.GIF\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer;width: 300px;height: 308px\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_HXZOhc9ASlo\/SdoF37H3qXI\/AAAAAAAAARM\/sycmgafExlA\/s320\/fc3.GIF\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All quotes are taken directly from Edwards&#8217; famous sermon, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccel.org\/ccel\/edwards\/sermons.sinners.html\">Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Family Circus<\/span> comics are from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcamax.com\/familycircus\">ArcaMax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God&#8221; is a treasure trove of shocking language. I have additional fun with it <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jasonboyett.com\/2009\/02\/jonathan-edwards-and-fiery-pants-of.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jasonboyett.com\/2009\/02\/answers-jonathan-edwards-or-death-metal.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While taking a shower on Saturday, I had this thought: What if you combined the gentle humor of Family Circus with the hellfire Puritan preaching of the great 18th century American theologian Jonathan Edwards? 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