but somehow religion, be not the only, but has been the most thing that brain-washed its believer, I guess it’s because the beliefs and faiths, that’s why there are some similar cases but not related like nazis, etc…

Human is so foolish that they wanted to die on something they are believing…like dreams, etc…but it’s also the belief itself that made human advances…I think it’s a double-edged sword…

I guess to settle this isn’t something big like destroying Abrahamic religions but just one world…tolerance…I’ve got mine and you’ve got yours…and we acknowledge each other beliefs (be it in religions or others)…

sorry for off-topic of the comic, by the way. Correct me if I’m wrong or you have different opinion…

Religion thrives on ignorance and fear. I believe that Internet is the arch nemesis of all religions. Already it made an athiest out of me though i was not all that religious before. And internet is just 10 years old as we know it today. And it is almost uncensorable, you can always get at censored websites using https redirecting websites or using censorware software.

But try telling 20 people Mohammed was a self-deceived loser in Riyadh, Tehran, Khartoum.

Then try telling 20 people the same about Jesus in London, Paris and New York.

It is a small sample but the results might still be significant.

Are you making this generalization based on knowing atheists in largely Christian countries? If so, then your observation seems easy to explain.

‘Till then, God or no God, it’s the taxman who’s getting my money. I’ll let him thank God for depriving yet another poor athiest of his daily bread.

In seemingly missing the point you managed to have completely proven mine. Every group thinks they have more of a right to feel more persecuted than the next and madness needs no religion to prosper (although in alot of cases it seems to help).

In particular, Christianity is (supposedly) all about rejecting the culture of victimhood, the “grievance” culture, whatever you call it, not by passing laws against it, but by turning the other cheek, doing good to (and even loving) your enemies, and withstanding even the harshest punishment (crucifixion) while forgiving those who sin against you.

Human nature means almost anybody will use pretty much anything they can to assert dominance over others, unless otherwise “enlightened” such that they view others as those whom they should serve (as Jesus washed his disciples’ feet, and instructed them to do likewise), in which case they reject their “chimp nature”.

This means: Christianity is, as with any other belief/nonbelief system, prone to abuse by those seeking dominance and control over others (despite its own internal rules to the contrary); and people who say we aren’t descendant from chimps (primates) because “the Bible says so” should instead stop acting like a bunch of chimps themselves, trying to determine heirarchies and their own positions therein, and simply follow the straight and narrow path outlined by Jesus Christ himself.

Christianity is ultimately all about the right to live as one sees fit — the right to choose. In fact, life is indistinguishable from the exercise of choice; the Right to Life IS the same as the Right to Choose. Any Christian who believes “those that are not for Jesus are against Him” should consider the implications of the fact that Jesus explicitly left such people free to make such choices even in the hands of his own followers (who he knew would betray him): anyone who denies that choice to another would, in fact, be surely denying Jesus (Life, and thus Choice) himself.

I must be going’ feckin’ blind… I can’t see any words like that on my money. Just pitchas of marsupials. monotremes, odd birds and an indigenous person or two.

With taglines like “After today no more Shias”, the massacre of Kurds, the gassing of Halabja, the Osirak affair, the war with Iran, the invasion of Kuwait, the current murdering of Sunni Muslims by Shias in Iraq, etc., I’m pretty sure Iraq was a peaceful secular state before the US invaded.

Stalin, the communist prophet of Lenin the most gracious the most merciful, purged those filthy ungrateful Trotskyites off the Communist Party and the Military and ordered Trotsky killed for the common good of the people of the Soviet Union, satellites and assorted puppet states. No doubt prophet Stalin created the Jewish Autonomous Oblast as a concentration camp to slain the nasty Zionists, and revived the Russian Orthodox Church if only to intensify patriotic support for the war effort, i.e. secure the availability of cannon fodder.

Again, a cry made by pretty much every group, especially those that are involved in some kind of war.

Israelis are only defending themselves from Palestinians in, emmm, Palestine.
The US was only defending itself by pre-emptively attacking Iraq.
And Iraq was a secular state which, since the invasion, is steering well and truly towards a theocracy. I don’t remember Saddam gassing Kurds in the name of Allah. Or tossing people in Abu Ghraib for crimes against Islam.
Stalin was an atheist too and killed hundreds of thousands of folk because of their religion.

So what are we saying now? That genocide in the name of God is worse than “just” genocide?

However, J&M may indeed be ad hominem inasmuch as it uses characters as devices. All politics is largely ad hominem.

But no, the same cannot be said for atheists complaining about God on the Money. That would be a claim of misrepresentation, not persecution.

@ Sad: Wtf? Atheists only try to defend themselves from the trash they shove down our throats. I don’t see Atheists killing and or forcibly people in the name of Athe (pun intended) or Evolution.

This comic is about victimhood. Is anyone seriously suggesting that religious groups don’t indulge in this? Ok, it’s not *just* religious groups, but that’s not the point of the comic. The barmaid’s remarks can just as easily be used for any group that considers itself persecuted.

“Oh no, those darn faithiests are telling my child that God exists!”

This high-horse elitism is pathetic. You are no better than any other human whether you believe in God or not.