Provocative Political/Religious Cartoons, First Week of New Year

And some equally smart political or religion-oriented cartoons that have caught my eye in the first week of the new year:

From George Takei's Facebook feed (I don't know the ultimate source of this cartoon):

From the Facebook page of Love Wins Ministries:

From Nick Anderson at Truthdig: 

From Clay Bennett, also at Truthdig:

The graphic at the head of the posting: a visual illustration of the aphorism, "A picture is worth 1,000 words," by HikingArtist, available for sharing via Wikimedia Commons.