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God to World: Let’s Get It On

By Eli Valley / April 20, 2007

Eli Valley presents his unique interpretation of the Song of Songs. Click the thumbnail below to see his work in all its smutty glory.

 

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  • By diklxik 10/27/08 at 12:10 a.m. UTC

    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???

  • By Anonymous 8/30/08 at 7:12 a.m. UTC

    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.

  • By Rob Sylvia 8/15/08 at 10:39 p.m. UTC

    You have no sense dude!

  • By Henry McClain 6/10/07 at 4:55 a.m. UTC

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

    not really erotic or anything. full colour too

  • By Hershey the Rabbit 5/23/07 at 11:40 p.m. UTC

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

  • By Anonymous 5/23/07 at 7:32 a.m. UTC

    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.

  • By 4/29/07 at 6:47 p.m. UTC

    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.

  • By 4/24/07 at 11:21 a.m. UTC

    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.

  • Craig Leinoff
    By Craig Leinoff 4/23/07 at 12:49 p.m. UTC

    HAHAHA! Dear god.

  • By eringa 4/23/07 at 12:12 p.m. UTC

    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

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