Comments on: after

By: Bagpuss

Bagpuss — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:35:23 +0000

Kevin, because he’s a washed up shadow of his former self – his biggest chance was at Italia90 and, I’m sorry to say, he blew it.

By: Toast in the machine

Toast in the machine — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:36:11 +0000

Why not have a look back through recent strips Kevin, and see the other subjects that were focussed on? And maybe consider the allusion to that ugly mess in the immediately preceding strip?

By: kevin

kevin — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:52:15 +0000

How long now, and not a single comic mentioning Gaza.
Why?

By: Timothy (TRiG)

Timothy (TRiG) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:54:23 +0000

Cain, Abel, and Seth are the three of Adam and Eve’s children who are named. Everyone forgets Seth, even though he’s the one we’re all descended from, if you believe what is written. Seth was an ancestor of Noah. Cain’s line perished in the Flood (note the careful uppercase initial).

Sheesh. It’s amazing how well this stuff sticks in the head.

TRiG.

By: JMo

JMo — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:35:02 +0000

I had the pleasure early one morning to see again the beginning of “The Ten Commandments”. It showed Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel. Of course Cain killed Abel and God gave him a tatoo and made him leave. He then went to a land called Nod and found himselve a wife. I have a very devout Christian co-worker and so I asked him where did the women come from. I mean supposedly there are only four people on the planet. My friend said without batting an eye that Adam and Eve had many children and the scriptures don’t name them all. So of course I said “so God thinks that incest is the best way to populate the planet?” Deer in the headlights……I laughed again…..But geeze these people exist and believe……

By: Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:48:43 +0000

Oh but it’s true you know. For instance we know the Bible was written by God because the Bible says so. If you don’t believe me you just look at the Saddleback church’s web site – it quotes chapter and verse right on there, right where it says the Bible was written by God. So you see: it’s watertight.

By: Timothy (TRiG)

Timothy (TRiG) — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:37:14 +0000

Daniel is interesting, because there’s fairly good diachronic analysis (the study of how language changes through time) to suggest that it actually was written before the events described. Or so I’ve been told. I really must look that up somewhere more neutral than the publications of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, the publishers for the Jehovah’s Witnesses, a religion I have but recently abandoned.

It’s certainly true that the prophecies in the book of Daniel are the only ones that are at all impressive. All other Biblical prophecies (and indeed many of Daniel’s later ones) are extremely vague. King of the North and King of the South, anyone? The Witness interpretation of that is impressively implausible.

TRiG.

By: Anthony Mercer

Anthony Mercer — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:28:41 +0000

I could just say “God doesn’t exist, therefore he doesn’t exist”.

By: Hobbes

Hobbes — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:13:16 +0000

Elf Believer: “I have an invisible magic elf who makes it rain.”

Skeptic: “How can you prove you have this elf?”

Elf Believer: “Didn’t it rain yesterday?”

Skeptic: “Yes.”

Elf Believer: “What more proof do you need?”

–from George H. Smith’s Atheism: The case against God–

By: Daoloth

Daoloth — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:33:21 +0000

“You can trust me, I am a man of God”
But how do I know you are telling the truth?
“Fool!, would a man of God tell lies?”
Tee hee hee.