Questions for the poor souls who, having run through all the blogs that educate, illuminate and/or edify, are left with this site:
- Is the above caption offensive? If so, why?
It makes light of neither Jesus Christ nor Christianity, but of those individuals who go door to door proselytizing.
Having turned away many a Mormon, Jehovah’s Witness and Southern Baptist from my front door, I couldn’t help but find the meme funny, even though all the above Christians were without fail exceedingly polite and, I would imagine, well intentioned.
- If the evangelizing cat is not at least a little offensive, then why is it humorous?
Often, it’s the taboo that gets the biggest guffaw.
If the image of a cat sticking its paws and part of its head through a small door came with the caption: “Hello Sir – Can I interest you in an excellent deal on a Electromaflux 5000 Upright Vacuum?” it wouldn’t be quite the same, even though we’ve all had to deal with door-to-door salesmen peddling everything from appliances to insurance.
- Finally, what did people do for chuckles in the days before the invention of the camera allowed them to pass around pictures of animals?
This, I concede, is of less philosophical significance than the other questions.
Still, passing around, say, a charcoal image of a cat stuck in a butter churn wouldn’t seem to have the same impact as that of a photo of the same scene.
The Cotton Boll Conspiracy 
funny!
Thank you.
It’s funny and you know what? It gets The Word out just the same.
That’s a good way of looking at it.
Well you know what they say, “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.”
If cats could only talk or should I say if humans can understand the cats, there will be more of this kind of post. 😆
Nothing profane at all! In my view religion can be satirized as any other topic. Many feel differently but we do have freedom of speech in our country.
Indeed, most people who are secure in their faith have no problem with the satire of religion, particularly when religion is abused.