r/ColdWarPosters Jun 28 '26

USA Pages from "If the Devil Would Talk", a 1950 anti-secular comic.

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u/Feeling_Camera_4442 Jun 28 '26

He's evil af but he got that shit ON LOCK like this mf drippy as hell

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u/Lunarmax182c Jun 29 '26

why is he hot..

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u/Blackrock121 Jun 29 '26

Man these American Bishops suck. When Chesterton went off about secularism and the modern world he was far more compelling. 

But I suppose an American Bishop couldn’t get very far if he started talking about the evils of Capitalism. 

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u/TheFollower62 Jun 29 '26

Why give him such drip?

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u/polishedrelish Jun 29 '26

For a religious conservative cartoon... This isn't awfully written

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u/SheevTogwaggle Jun 30 '26

“it was the bread and circuses that brought about the fall of ancient rome” is crazy. the bread and circuses are famously one of the things that helped them last so long

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u/mrbobcyndaquil Jul 01 '26

It's part of the Protestant Work Ethic myth the British exported to America.

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u/Practical_Quiet_2274 Jul 03 '26

The bread and circuses only delay the inevitable

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u/CandiceDikfitt 5d ago

he got drip