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John Byrne
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My favorite exchange this week:Q: If there’s no God, why did cavemen survive the asteroid and dinosaurs didn’t? A: Social distancing. They stayed sixty-five million years apart.
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Marc Baptiste
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| Posted: 24 October 2020 at 9:04am | IP Logged | 2
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One of the BEST I've ever heard!!!
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Doug Centers
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Ha!
The "Day Six" believers will never give in tho. Noah just chose against every single Dinosaur because of space limitations, what a coincidink :-)
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Paul Wills
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If you had written the story of the bible's version of the origin of life as a comic book, readers would say it wasn't believable enough.
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Rebecca Jansen
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I seem to remember that the Bible includes two origin of life stories, it being a collection of disparate writings of varying cultures/times/languages. Do a lot of people even know that the names Noah and his son Nimrod appear first on Babylonian cuneiform cylinders and not those scrolls in Hebrew? Is that forbidden or heretical knowledge? How can as many be so enamored with 'the book' yet want to know so little of what it's actual coming into existence entailed? I guess the be simple like children line got over-emphasized... or as Neil Innes once put it, how sweet to be an idiot?
Ah, I'm probably just lucky to have stumbled across a Joseph Campbell comparative theology volume in a library prior to a stint at a Christian school! That really set me up. Egyptian primordial flood stories? Hindu Upanishads? Rabbinic Midrashes? Native American pantheons? Yes please! :^)
I still think Alley Oop is a fun strip though.
Edited by Rebecca Jansen on 24 October 2020 at 12:15pm
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Peter Hicks
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Yeah, those early religions swiped from each other almost as often as Rich Buckler.
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Adam Schulman
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Too soon, Peter, too soon...
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Peter Hicks
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I can say that. Buckler was my favourite comic artist when I was a kid.
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John Byrne
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I seem to remember that the Bible includes two origin of life stories…•• Genesis I and II contradict each other on almost every point. These are the kinds of things I point to when "battling" the faithful. There's no point arguing science against religion, since believers hold the ultimate winning hand: "God did it." But when they can't even keep their own stories straight. . .
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Wallace Sellars
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QUOTE:
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Robert Crumb did just that.
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Marc Baptiste
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| Posted: 25 October 2020 at 9:24am | IP Logged | 11
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Two things Christians tell themselves (and others, ad nauseam):
1) The Bible contains NO contradictions 2) The Bible is self-authenticating
The latter actually bothers me more!
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Brian Miller
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Agreed, Marc.
Heard this from a preacher a few years ago:
“How do we know the Bible is the true word of God? It says it is!”
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