09/05/25
Let the hate flow through you.
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JOKE-OGRAPHY:
1. In this Bible story, Jesus tells a crowd of prospective disciples that anyone who comes to Him without first hating everyone else CANNOT be His disciple. It's a hard saying at first, because it sounds like Jesus is contradicting things He's said elsewhere. Aren't we supposed to honor our parents? Aren't we supposed to love our neighbor and even our enemy? Jesus often uses hyperbole when He's expressing something important. This helps it stand out and stick in the mind, and if it IS just an exaggeration, He clarifies after. Later in this story, Jesus makes it clear that he's not advocating for hating your family, but instead for loving God above everyone else, even your closest relationships. If you love God first, all other love springs from Him and falls into place.
2. In this cartoon, Jesus says the opening line from this hard saying. In the future, that verse is read in Mass, and Emo Emi (a reoccurring character in my comics) is reading along and agreeing with the surface-level hate-mongering of the Lord. She verbally concurs, and her mother groans at how it seems Emi's only scriptural epiphanies are those which center around singular, radical, out-of-context verses.