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February 11th, 2009
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  1. Bodach says:
    February 11, 2009 at 7:05 am

    Excellent way to determine which religion to follow: which one has the most terrifying punishments?
    An eternity without fruit would suck.

  2. remigius says:
    February 11, 2009 at 7:22 am

    It’s not the fruit that worries me.

    It’s the nuts.

  3. Matt Oxley says:
    February 11, 2009 at 7:37 am

    Then I’m going with Zoroastrianism…i hate the cold dammit

  4. Jerry w says:
    February 11, 2009 at 7:42 am

    I’ve always thought that the fear of hell brought more people to christianity than the reward of heaven. Perhaps this could explain why harps don’t sell as easily as nomex underwear?

  5. John The Geologist says:
    February 11, 2009 at 8:08 am

    Author. Fruit related atheism. Excellent.

    I used to work in Saudi Arabia and there was an old proverb that went:

    “For sexual pleasure you can get by with a woman.
    For sexual delight you need a young boy.
    For absolute sexual bliss you need a water melon”

    I declined melons and bananas – for obvious reasons.

  6. Daoloth says:
    February 11, 2009 at 9:00 am

    Its almost as if heaven was being described according to the limited imaginations of semi-literate bronze-age nomads? But, no- that would be silly, wouldn’t it?

  7. JoJo says:
    February 11, 2009 at 10:38 am

    Makes sense. The Christians just hate fruits.

    I’ll get my coat…

  8. Simon Bishop says:
    February 11, 2009 at 12:08 pm

    Yes! We have no bananas, or do we?

    http://www.jesusandmo.net/2006/05/11/skin/

  9. JohnnieCanuck says:
    February 11, 2009 at 12:35 pm

    Indeed, the paradise those nomads dreamed of sounds an awful lot like an oasis in the desert.

    Hell for them is not a raging blizzard nor the sun reflecting blindingly (literally) off the snow while it is cold enough to freeze mercury. I would not expect to find any indication in their writings that they had access to omniscient knowledge of the rest of their world.

    It was only their access to writing that allowed so much of their emotional appeals to ignorance to be passed on to their descendants.

    Well, this cartoon has answered a recent point of curiosity for me. That was whether Islam more closely copied the Jewish or Christian punishment model. Studying religion like this won’t make me a theologian, I hope.

  10. grouchy-one says:
    February 11, 2009 at 2:40 pm

    Don’t forget the 72 raisins awaiting the good martyrs when they arrive in heaven

  11. Nickopotamus says:
    February 11, 2009 at 3:15 pm

    There may be fruit in heaven, but hell sounds like a great place for a bbq?

  12. MrGronk says:
    February 11, 2009 at 5:08 pm

    But what if the bananas are really, really big …

  13. Teleprompter says:
    February 11, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    Ha! I bet Ray Comfort never even considered how his “banana” model could validate Islam.

  14. Maggs says:
    February 11, 2009 at 5:30 pm

    It wouldn’t be heaven for me without internet access. Is that offered by anyone?

  15. Maggs says:
    February 11, 2009 at 5:32 pm

    Whoops, wrong email address above, no pic….

  16. Maggs says:
    February 11, 2009 at 5:33 pm

    Huh, where’s my original wish for internet access in heaven gone? Is the site playing up?

  17. Jerry w says:
    February 11, 2009 at 7:30 pm

    It’s not a banana in my pocket and I’m not a follower of Islam,
    I’m just happy to be here.
    Apparently very happy, taking the temperature into consideration.

  18. Felix says:
    February 11, 2009 at 8:22 pm

    grouchy-one, speaking of raisins – has anyone worked out who actually counts and assorts all those raisin plates? Is that God’s second-worst punishment for recalcitrant angels, those who don’t really question his authority but dare to think they don’t like him that much?
    Or is there some obscure nook in hell where sinners count raisins into small bowls (lots of scenario creativity permitted there)?
    Since God always knew how many would enter heaven and when, has he prepared all the bowls at one instant, or does he make them in sets?

    Lots of stuff J&M could discuss in future episodes. Full permission to use these ideas hereby given to Author. I’d be honored 😉

  19. Diane G says:
    February 11, 2009 at 11:11 pm

    LOL@ JoJo!

  20. Ish says:
    February 12, 2009 at 12:46 am

    I was once having a chat to a friend of mine who was commenting on how muslim paradise mainly catered for men. I asked him what he thought muslim paradise for women would be and his response was:
    Habitat at Ikea prices

  21. grouchy-one says:
    February 12, 2009 at 4:51 am

    Felix, I imagine the administration of raisins would fall to the most dutiful and pious beaurocrats from Earth; to them this would be a form of eternal reward.

    I guess any new arrivals that had managed to get into heaven by blowing themselves and their surroundings up would be fed into the raisin requisition process, a bewildering web of forms, approvals and a maze of departmental corridoors that would eventually return the applicant back where they started; an ironic form of eternal torture for those that forgot the bit in the good book that said not to kill other people.

  22. JMo says:
    February 12, 2009 at 4:51 am

    I always wondered if those Xtians/Catholics/Muslims would still live their lives of virtue without the “BIG” payoff in the end. The other morning one of the more religious persons I work with asked how I was doing. My reply was “I’m breathing.”, their reply was “Better than the alternative.” I always have to play the Devils advocate and say “Isn’t heavan better than this place?” You geussed it deer in the headlights………

  23. Nathan says:
    February 12, 2009 at 6:15 am

    Hey, maybe Christians DO hate fruits! Remember when Jesus cursed the fig tree?

  24. Peter Harris says:
    February 12, 2009 at 8:55 am

    How would Islam reconcile the fallacy in Mo’s thinking – Bananas are herbs, not fruit!

    Oohoohhohoohoohh jihad on me.

  25. Joe Fogey says:
    February 12, 2009 at 9:57 am

    I’m putting my money on the beer volcano and the stripper factory.

  26. gobbycoot says:
    February 12, 2009 at 11:07 am

    I love love love this comic strip. But how on earth has the cartoonist not been blown up? Have Muslims just not discovered it?

  27. Felix says:
    February 12, 2009 at 1:05 pm

    gobbycoot,
    I’m quite certain they have – which I assume is the main reason for the cartoonist’s name being Author.

  28. JMo says:
    February 12, 2009 at 2:13 pm

    gobbycoot,
    Author bypassed this little problem by using a body-double of Mo. There can be no blasphemy from using a body-double right? Yes the irony meter is vibrating crazily…..

  29. Don says:
    February 12, 2009 at 3:32 pm

    I think I went to Islamic heaven last summer… on the other hadn it could have just been a Bali hotel. The fruit basket on arrival confused me.

  30. Timothy (TRiG) says:
    February 12, 2009 at 6:32 pm

    Stripper factory sounds good to me!

    TRiG.

  31. moyameehaa says:
    February 12, 2009 at 10:03 pm

    i think u guys are missing all the sex muslim heaven has. the quran and hadiths describe with great detail the horis or the virgin girls. there are mention of young boys even (some disagreement whether they are available for sex or not).the suicide bombers get 72 virgin houris!! besides,lots of islamic sex is promised in this life too.for men that is.

    yeh.i too wonder why these cartoonists havent been blown up. even south park. but when its a news paper they go around killing people.wtf is wrong with em.

  32. TruePath says:
    February 15, 2009 at 8:33 pm

    It’s not the fear of hell that brings people to religion. It’s the fun of smugly thinking about the torments all those other people will endure.

  33. Anton Sherwood says:
    February 26, 2009 at 8:30 pm

    This strip is so educational! I had no idea that bananas were known in medieval Arabia.

  34. sahin k says:
    May 5, 2009 at 5:10 am

    i am ready to sell my beliefs for eternal melon and water-melon resources.

  35. ottebrain says:
    November 9, 2013 at 11:33 pm

    Could this be a nod to “skin” where it is mainly a praise of bananas?

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