God to World: Let's Get It On

Dude, love the comic.  But what I love more is the photo of you that makes you look, in the words of Paris Hilton, "hot."  
My Uncle Marty the Catholic Deacon gave me the Song of Songs as a graduation gift.  His wife said she knew when he had been reading it, because he became "all frisky."
erin

HAHAHA! Dear god.

It's amazing how much more scandalous something seems when you put the words to graphics. Very cool. Alicia Suskin Ostriker has an almost equally scandalous version of the Song of Songs in her book The Nakedness of the Fathers.

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.

I found Eli's comic to be the most original, brilliant, compelling and deliciously funny satire since Police Academy 6.

The longer this is up, the more I dislike it. It's not clever, or original, or well-drawn. It is definitely disrespectful to a lot of Jews, not in a reasoned, well-argued way, but in an ugly, spiteful way. If you wanna criticize faith in god, go nuts, but use someting more clever than this.
Please take it down.

The very heart of doing things of meaning lies in being disrespectful to those who want to censor our minds. I also do not go around demanding the Chabad to be taken down, for G-ds sake. So stop being a Mugabe and look somewhere else for your kind of fun.

While a bit crude, Muffti thinks that this is worthwhile and thought provocative; Muffti has a great deal of respect for slow careful argument but he also thinks you are rather impoverished in your sensibilities if you can't chuckle at a clever manipulation and use of mildly vulgar things to twist the meaning of the sacred to the profane.

I hate to be picky Anonymous Muffti, but "thought provocative?" What does that even mean? Eli's cartoon does not present anything new or provocative - if that's indeed what you meant. "The Song of Songs is about sex?" Stop the presses! And that cock shot of God and his uncircumcised member? Is that what passes for humor these days? I ordinarily like edgy humor but this cartoon is neither edgy, nor is it humorous. Muffti's effusive praise can only mean one of two things - Muffti is a close friend of Valley, or Muffti is Valley's girlfriend.

You know it's funny. You know that's not a picture of "G-d" in any conception of Judaism beyond that of a first grader's picture book. I think it just makes you folks a little uncomfortable, and so you want to criticize it. Don't worry, just turn off the internet, close your eyes, and the nagging world outside your fixed world-view will go away.

Fixed world view? I am no fan of God. Not by any means. Valley's cartoon was adolescent. That's my only gripe.

here's a completely unrelated Song of Songs comic book http://www.songofsongsthecomicbook.com

not really erotic or anything. full colour too

You have no sense dude!

What a shame to see the practical Jew reduced to shuul friends, kike circles, and matzah ball soup instead of a beloved among God's people.

But in all your afflictions He will not be afflicted.  And neither will I.

And it's because that's what you wanted.  And here it is.

Is it possible we all must sing our own song? Could it be that there was a diary that Jesus kept? He certainly lived long enough, and did have some writings. Why after the atrocity that hitler placed upon-the world, was there not an overwhelming movement towards peace? especially among the Jewish race? When quite contrary to the mass inhuman injustice the path of direction the world has taken is to continue to grow and expand and perfect Hitler's invention of mass killing machines !!!???? How come the world over is so corrupt and seemingly evil in it's ways??? Could it be that the bible was the grate manipulation? The discovery of Christ's casket with Mary Magdalin, and child.?! There is an obvious disruption that does not seem to be able to flow nearly as well as intended. And me personally would die before i will ever watch my daughter become any soldier bearing arms in war. But yet the wholly damn war the world over is undoubtedly of biblical proportions. A one that seems to involve the Jewish Documented lord and creator to be a very big if not majority part of the involved battle at hand. This God who is documented by the jewish as riotous and just moral and mighty god of gods king of kings and creator. How could he be any part or take place in the destruction of the human race throughout the history of life?? People would rather see a car wreck over a flower blooming! Watch the news it's what is proven through the news. There is so little good news! where is jesus diary who destroyed it in order to control the masses. And guarantee the rule of power to remain in ones greedy possession? The wrath of God is truly to be feared by all and none shall escape it's clutches none! NO ONE!!! So what's the point???