DescriptionDescent of the Modernists, E. J. Pace, Christian Cartoons, 1922.jpg	"The Descent of the Modernists", by E. J. Pace, first appearing in the book Seven Questions in Dispute by William Jennings Bryan, 1924, New York: Fleming H. Revell Company.
Date	1924
Source	This image scanned from the book Seven Questions in Dispute by William Jennings Bryan, 1924, New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, inside front cover. Unlike the other cartoons in that book, this one had not previously been published. It was based on a letter that Bryan wrote to the editor of the Sunday School Times magazine in January 1924. That letter is in the Library of Congress. See Edward B. Davis, "Fundamentalist Cartoons, Modernist Pamphlets, and the Religious Image of Science in the Scopes Era," in Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America, ed. Charles L. Cohen and Paul S. Boyer (University of Wisconsin Press, 2008), on pp. 179-180.
Author	E. J. Pace
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THE DESCENT OF THE MODERNISTS

CHRISTIANITY

BIBLE NOT INFALLIBLE

MAN NOT MADE IN GOD'S IMAGE

NO MIRACLES

NO VIRGIN BIRTH

NO DEITY

NO ATONEMENT

NO RESURRECTION

AGNOSTICISM

ATHEISM

There are three men descending the staircase, of which each level represents a belief, as above. The men are older, the further down the staircase they are.