A fairly standard anti-catholic cartoon. It is titled: “The Papal Octopus – The Pope-Antichrist”, by HE Fowler, and was published in 1913 in an anti-catholic screed. The arms are titled: ‘ignorance’ (‘dupe’), ‘superstition’, ‘subversion’, ‘bigotry’ (‘public school’), ‘evil’, ‘tyranny’ (‘infalibility’ [sic]), ‘greed’ (‘public money’), ‘corruption’ (document labelled ‘civil laws’). The text beneath the cartoon reads: […]

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Scientology (Time, 1991) January 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment · Edit This Time magazine on May 6th 1991 (artist Linda Louise Freeman?) depicted the Scientology religion as a hybrid octopus-volcano. The title, “Scientology: The cult of greed”, had the blurb “How the growing dianetics empire squeezes millions from believers worldwide”. Presumably, Scientology is the octopus giving the squeeze. […]

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