Oh snap! A smiley face on the cover of the Times with the “Falwell Dead” headline… Awesome. Too bad ol’ Jerry can’t tell his followers that he was wrong. Funny thing, though, when I heard that he was dead my first though was “There IS a god!” Here’s hoping Pat Robertson is next in line.
My thought about Fallwell as soon as his death was announced was, “Good!” Fallwell did one good thing, though: he made fundamental Christianity seem just as bad as fundamental Islam. In fact, it reminded me that while researching attitudes towards women in Antiquity and the Middlel Ages that Christianity is really not at all unlike Islam at all. Basically the same. So I don’t know what Christians are getting all “we’re better than them” about. They’re not, really. They’re just not as powerful, and we’re still able to slam our door in the faces of evangelicals without fearing death, that’s all. The Pope was made to apologize for atrocities, but only after a few centuries. Maybe one day when we’re all Islamists, the Islamic Pope will have to apologize too.
The Fundamental Extremists have their terrorists too. Don’t forget Eric Rudolph and other abortion clinic bombers and gunmen. Don’t forget Atlanta’s Olympic Park bomber. Don’t forget John Lennon’s assassin Mark David Chapman. Don’t forget George W. Bush. There are still plenty of Christian soldiers killing in the name of their invisible friend. I don’t fear god, just his followers.
You’d want to be carefull fearing god followers. They will probably infer that you thereby fear god, therefore you believe in god, in some poorly worded ill thought out syllogism. The closemindestness, and sad to say, stupidity of at least the most vocal of god believers is what I’m afraid of.
Actually scratch that. Call them church followers. I’ve met plenty of fairly smart people who have got as far as rejecting the church but still believe in some kind of cosmic energy field or some such.
I still take great delight in trying to lead them to the next step though. Join me, brethren, in leading the unenlightened ones a little further along the…..ooops. Ahem, excuse me.
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Jesus and Mo cartoons are wonderfully funny and true. Richard Dawkins
Jesus and Mo make the world a better place, bless their little hearts. Ophelia Benson
In a world defined by outrage and offence and liberal spinelessness, Jesus and Mo is a treasure, whose value we should never fail to recognize. Read them. Laugh. And think. Kenan Malik
The brilliant, celebrated, freaking hilarious atheist comic strip ... Greta Christina
...rays of sanity in a befuddled world. Keri Hulme
The liveliest depictions of Muhammad currently available... Malise Ruthven
J & Mo is the funniest and most consistently thought-provoking cartoon strip on the Net. In a saner world, it would run in a major newspaper. Nelson Jones, Heresy Corner
Consistently amusing, frequently thought-provoking and often heart-warming. New Humanist
Jesus & Mo is one of the most wonderful things on the internet.. JT Eberhard
Wittily captures much of the absurdity of religious apologetics. Mano Singham
I love jesusandmo.net cartoons - witty and sharp! Katha Pollitt
Often hilarious, frequently wry, these cartoons do what all the best cartoons do: they tell the truth through humour. Terry Sanderson, NSS President
...a wonderfully acid British cartoonist... Nick Cohen
I love the scrappy mockery of Jesus and Mo. Freedom of speech
includes the freedom to mock any person, any thing, any activity, and
any belief -- and J&M stands up for this unflinchingly Richard Stallman
...empowering, important and deeply progressive, not to mention hilarious... Council of Ex-Muslims
...humor is humor and this cartoonist doesn't have it.Karl Giberson
July 17, 2008
Awesome stuff…keep going on.
Oh snap! A smiley face on the cover of the Times with the “Falwell Dead” headline… Awesome. Too bad ol’ Jerry can’t tell his followers that he was wrong. Funny thing, though, when I heard that he was dead my first though was “There IS a god!” Here’s hoping Pat Robertson is next in line.
My thought about Fallwell as soon as his death was announced was, “Good!” Fallwell did one good thing, though: he made fundamental Christianity seem just as bad as fundamental Islam. In fact, it reminded me that while researching attitudes towards women in Antiquity and the Middlel Ages that Christianity is really not at all unlike Islam at all. Basically the same. So I don’t know what Christians are getting all “we’re better than them” about. They’re not, really. They’re just not as powerful, and we’re still able to slam our door in the faces of evangelicals without fearing death, that’s all. The Pope was made to apologize for atrocities, but only after a few centuries. Maybe one day when we’re all Islamists, the Islamic Pope will have to apologize too.
The Fundamental Extremists have their terrorists too. Don’t forget Eric Rudolph and other abortion clinic bombers and gunmen. Don’t forget Atlanta’s Olympic Park bomber. Don’t forget John Lennon’s assassin Mark David Chapman. Don’t forget George W. Bush. There are still plenty of Christian soldiers killing in the name of their invisible friend. I don’t fear god, just his followers.
You’d want to be carefull fearing god followers. They will probably infer that you thereby fear god, therefore you believe in god, in some poorly worded ill thought out syllogism. The closemindestness, and sad to say, stupidity of at least the most vocal of god believers is what I’m afraid of.
Actually scratch that. Call them church followers. I’ve met plenty of fairly smart people who have got as far as rejecting the church but still believe in some kind of cosmic energy field or some such.
I still take great delight in trying to lead them to the next step though. Join me, brethren, in leading the unenlightened ones a little further along the…..ooops. Ahem, excuse me.
I’ve heard less hatred from Christian fundies than from true believers in Gun Control.
Is the previous author on holiday? The strips are becoming smug.
Don’t they always make the wrong mistake?