Biblical Coloring Books

Alright, I'll admit that I'm not exactly the best person in the world to make judgment calls when it comes to the contents of a Christian Biblical Coloring book. Personally, I have a hard time with the level of watered down scripture given to kids to begin with, and the simple manner in which the religious establishment tends to gloss over a majority of the text, simply interpreting and regurgitating subtext regarding morals and love. When you take something as massive as The Bible, and you try to dumb it down into a coloring book, it seems to me that you lose something. Personally, I'm for leaving religion either out of the equation, or factored in with all other beliefs until a child is old enough to make an informed decision, but that's just me. (Of course, I don't find fault with exposing children to a solid moral message early in life, either. Really, I just get frustrated with the statistics that show high percentages of children raised in a certain religion from birth will generally never look at other options, and basically become 'religiously' brainwashed.)

However, I have to say that I don't know what to make of this:



It appeared today without comment or sourcing in one of my RSS feeds, and I really don't know what to think. I've stared at it for a long time, trying to decide if it's a brilliant Photohop, something that's just been taken out of context (like something that actually appeared in The Onion, or as an editorial cartoon in Newsweek), or if this is actually a page from a real children's coloring book.

The mind boggles.