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By: ¿Tanto esperar para esto? | Los dos minutos de odio

¿Tanto esperar para esto? | Los dos minutos de odio — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:32:52 +0000

[...] Brain – Jesus and Mo [...]

By: Paper Hand

Paper Hand — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:51:09 +0000

“The penal substitution model may be a leap of faith for those who feel no shame”?

That makes no sense. If you feel no shame, then you don’t believe there’s anything to punish, regardless of who gets the punishment. If you do feel shame, then the proper response is to expect punishment YOURSELF. If I do something wrong, I wouldn’t expect someone else to pay the price, and I’d feel even more ashamed if an innocent party suffered from my crime. If I do something wrong, *I* am the person who should be punished. Jesus’ punishment only makes sense if it was atonement for his (God’s) own sins. Like, say, the whole expelling-from-Eden incident, or the Flood, or torturing innocent Egyptians for their unelected pharoah’s crimes, etc. etc. etc.

By: ToddAwful

ToddAwful — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:43:05 +0000

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.

By: yelinna

yelinna — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:18:25 +0000

I’m falling and my jetpack isn’t working!!
Oh God save me!!
(oh, holy shit, he isn’t at home again!)

By: ARU

ARU — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:21:34 +0000

Religion might be more appealing if they did hand out “Jet Packs of Faith.” You know…if they actually worked.

By: Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:42:34 +0000

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!

By: jONES.

jONES. — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:45:06 +0000

“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…

By: mat

mat — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:20:47 +0000

how does one go about thinking without his brain?

By: oreophile

oreophile — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:48:18 +0000

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.

By: prozacville

prozacville — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:18:25 +0000

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.

By: fontor

fontor — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:23:57 +0000

Unfortunately, Mo is quite correct.

Yep, you can! That’s about it right there.

By: Dick M.

Dick M. — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:39:54 +0000

Mo hasn’t scored a point against the barmaid; he’s shown what a peterhead he is. Which is the point of the cartoon.

By: Mags

Mags — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:55:10 +0000

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…

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:11:52 +0000

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.

By: JayBee

JayBee — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:48:49 +0000

Poor poor barmaid!

By: JohnnieCanuck

JohnnieCanuck — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:24:32 +0000

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.

By: jONES.

jONES. — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:30:48 +0000

Personally I think they’re both just being Dicks.

Oops… That was the last strip, wasn’t it? My bad…