While Eli's drawings are cool, I found the argument against God to be kind of old and reductionist. Hasn't our culture already heard enough about this canard against God for all the problems in the world? Isn't it more honest to lay the blame at the "feet" of the Biblical authors for their own editorial choices about God's behavior in the Bible--if indeed that's the issue?

In a magazine that proudly pitted Sam Harris the Unbeliever against Dennis Praeger the Believer, why not investigate in comic form a new direction of this discourse other than whipping up a faux scandal over sexy cartoons?

Rabbi Akiva, credited by the Mishnah with inventing this notion of Song of Songs being a love poem between God and the Jewish people was hardly a drooling moron or proto-Talibanist out to emasculate Judaism of its sexuality. The metaphor--albeit an outmoded form of communication in our media saturated culture--meant something back in the day. And the idea that you could sublimate (not repress) the sexuality of the Song of Songs into a mongamous relationship was radical in its time and worth considering today as well.