I’ve been wondering when/if they would ever get the last word. If you can call it that… This strip is way too much like real-life conversations I’ve had.
Barmaid isn’t poor. She would expect that at some point, they are male after all… Mo says ‘Actually you can’ when he means ‘you can say it whether it means anything or not’ which is argumentative child logic and no one takes it seriously. With luck the child grows up, with males they tend not to more often than is good for the world. Actually, things might be changing, do you have ladettes in the US? (female lads) Girls behaving like boys, aggressive, hard drinking, loud, thoughtless, argumentative, sulky, noisy…
J&M look too pissed to worry about who’s right or wrong. (And not pissed in the American sense, transatlantic readers: that would just be true to form).
Maybe an answer to religious conflict: get everyone pissed?
If Mo had said “ACTUALLY HE CAN, ” then the barmaid’s comment would be clearly wrong, since Jesus’s statements are not an attribution to god, but are directly from god.
“Attribution to God” and “directly from God” mean the same thing… Both statements indicate that these are God’s words. Just like the ten commandments are directly from God… God’s very own laws spoken from his own Godly lips to a very old and lonely man standing on a mountaintop talking to burning shrubs…
It’s all clearly written in that 2000 year old book that’s alot thinner than it used to be about 1200 years ago, with alot of hastily written revisions…
The penal substitution model may be a leap of faith for those who feel no shame. Of course, this personalistic aspect isn’t discussed. Barmaid dismisses the whole issue because her opinion that God doesn’t exist is indisputably correct. Very reasonable - no hypocrisy there whatsoever.
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November 13th, 2007 at 7:30 am
Personally I think they’re both just being Dicks.
Oops… That was the last strip, wasn’t it? My bad…
November 13th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Ahh. Mo scores a point against the barmaid.
Cynically manipulating semantics perhaps, but he is right. Many an apologist has expected to put an end to discussion in just that way.
You’ve torn off another great strip, author.
November 13th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Poor poor barmaid!
November 13th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
I’ve been wondering when/if they would ever get the last word. If you can call it that… This strip is way too much like real-life conversations I’ve had.
November 13th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Barmaid isn’t poor. She would expect that at some point, they are male after all… Mo says ‘Actually you can’ when he means ‘you can say it whether it means anything or not’ which is argumentative child logic and no one takes it seriously. With luck the child grows up, with males they tend not to more often than is good for the world. Actually, things might be changing, do you have ladettes in the US? (female lads) Girls behaving like boys, aggressive, hard drinking, loud, thoughtless, argumentative, sulky, noisy…
November 13th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Mo hasn’t scored a point against the barmaid; he’s shown what a peterhead he is. Which is the point of the cartoon.
November 13th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Unfortunately, Mo is quite correct.
Yep, you can! That’s about it right there.
November 14th, 2007 at 10:18 am
J&M look too pissed to worry about who’s right or wrong. (And not pissed in the American sense, transatlantic readers: that would just be true to form).
Maybe an answer to religious conflict: get everyone pissed?
By jove, I think I’ve solved the problem.
November 15th, 2007 at 6:48 am
If Mo had said “ACTUALLY HE CAN, ” then the barmaid’s comment would be clearly wrong, since Jesus’s statements are not an attribution to god, but are directly from god.
November 15th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
how does one go about thinking without his brain?
November 16th, 2007 at 6:45 am
“Attribution to God” and “directly from God” mean the same thing… Both statements indicate that these are God’s words. Just like the ten commandments are directly from God… God’s very own laws spoken from his own Godly lips to a very old and lonely man standing on a mountaintop talking to burning shrubs…
It’s all clearly written in that 2000 year old book that’s alot thinner than it used to be about 1200 years ago, with alot of hastily written revisions…
November 17th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
The barmaid still has the upper hand. Mo can expect that to be the end of it all he likes, but of course it won’t be. Go barmaid!
November 20th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Religion might be more appealing if they did hand out “Jet Packs of Faith.” You know…if they actually worked.
November 28th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
I’m falling and my jetpack isn’t working!!
Oh God save me!!
(oh, holy shit, he isn’t at home again!)
May 20th, 2008 at 5:43 am
The penal substitution model may be a leap of faith for those who feel no shame. Of course, this personalistic aspect isn’t discussed. Barmaid dismisses the whole issue because her opinion that God doesn’t exist is indisputably correct. Very reasonable - no hypocrisy there whatsoever.