Check out this cartoon criticism of the War on Easter over at a Christian site called Tektoonics. I guess we’re getting to them.

The lessons Christ’s followers taught us today:

1) Mislead your readers.

2) If your case is weak, back it up with violence.

If you’ve seen The God Who Wasn’t There and you wonder what the heck the cartoon is talking about, don’t worry, you haven’t lost your memory. The author of the cartoon, Sheila Rangslinger, is dishonest in her representation of the film. The Orpheus icon that the cartoon focuses on is never actually discussed in The God Who Wasn’t There. The icon appears for about five seconds as an illustration (along with representations of other ancient gods). No claims are made about the illustration in the movie, with regard to its date or anything else (by “forgery,” apologetics mean the icon was created after Christianity began and not before). The Orpheus icon is not anything close to a building block of the argument made in The God Who Wasn’t There.

You wouldn’t know that from reading the cartoon, would you? And, of course, the Tektoonics readers who haven’t seen the movie (i.e., most Tektoonics readers) will be misled about the movie’s contents. Which is the point.

The overall strategy of Christian apologists with regard The God Who Wasn’t There is to discourage Christians from watching it at all. Just trust us, the apologists say–we’ve watched it, and it’s a horribly made movie filled with lies. Nothing to see here.

The bright side for us to this strategy: When Christians actually do see the movie, they will quickly realize they’ve been lied to by its critics.

So let’s get these Christians some free DVDs! Crank up those DVD-Rs and start spreading the news.