Source unknown – Daizha Morgann AKA Octoscphincter  (201X)

Even thought it’s extreme, I’d post this for how beautiful the tattoo is independent of anything else. But there’s something deliciously subversive about this that I can’t quite shake.

I know it’s an octopus and not a squid but I can’t help but thinking of that Matt Taibbi line comparing Goldman Sachs to “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly
jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”

That’s something I’ve always found and continue to find curious about Xtians: they vociferously advocate for capitalism freely admitted that the profit motive is another name for greed. (As you’ll recall greed is one of the seven deadly sins.)

But as the progressive rejoinder goes once it solidified around Obama as the last battlement against the far right: A brown skinned man that’s an anti-war socialist, who gives away free health care and feeds the hungry? You’re thinking of Jesus not Obama.

Jesus was most definitely a socialist. But Xtians believe that their reward waits in another life. So if the world is going to be destroyed, why not just let man succumb to his baser instincts and indulge greed–instead of you know the more Xtian approach.

So I see this image as an intendend comment on the hypocritical links between Xtianity and capitalism.