The Enlightenment ideals are even more airy fairy and intellectually passé, but the Old Testament had a habit of telling the truth about history, even if it meant telling of the murders, incest, and the stupidity of the royal family. You take totally bogus statements like “all men are created equal” then act as if these were a valid description of reality you do foolish things on imperfect premises. You in the Enlightened herd accept complete nonsense when it comes to the basic facts of your own recent history. How can you dismiss religions that successfully disciplined and regulated massive societies for centuries, while you believe in fairy tales like the threats posed by Vietnamese Communism, Osama Ben Laden, and large airliners that crash but leave no wreckage, skyscrapers that fall at free-fall speed when hit by planes with a mass and speed very close to that which they were said to be designed to withstand? Few religions ever have required such leaps of faith as are customarily necessary for keeping faith with these secular Zionist dominated democracies.
kozandaishi
It’s still an Alien Virus no matter how you cut it… And directly linked to 9/11.
I will have you know that Dan is a big fan of Mr. Fish.
Dave
So the Sleestaks is fictional, just like the other character on the cross?
I find it funny.
jill the disenchanted liberal
It belittles this particular religions b/c despite all the awful things done in the name of Jesus Christ, He is still sacred to many and his crucifixion in particular is His most sacred act.
I can deal with the belittling of religion. But, like Skeptic, I don’t get it. Please explain. I really want to know.
For what it’s worth, those Sleestaks freaked me out as a kid and they freak me out to this day!
Squaresville
What Would Sleestak Do – DOn’t see how that belittles anyone’s religion. Now if the caption was “Chaka, I can see your house from up here”, more people would get it, and probably be more offended.
Mr. Fish is great when he is great, but there every now and then there is one that I simply do not understand at all. Furthermore, childishly dismissing or demeaning religions that have played a major role in human history for thousands of years is what has gotten America into the mess that it is now in, not slavishly following them. Allowing the country to be pushed into a series of wars against Islam, this is something only a people who are profoundly stupid about history and religion would do. This cartoonist can be brilliant sometimes, even with his attacks on religious hypocrisy, but his childish, blanket belittling religion severely curtails his potential as a weapon against the monsters.
psychohistorian
I see the monsters and religions as in bed with each other forcing us all to live with “faith based” social and economic systems that are raping the world and the public for the few.
We have had over 500 years since the Enlightenment to relegate religions to the myth status they deserve and it is only their fealty to the current oligarchy that gives them credibility. The founding fathers made a valiant attempt that lasted until the 1950’s when fear of communism was used to change the motto of America from E Pluribus Unum to In God We Trust. It was also about this time that corporations were given the rights of “We the people…” , again to fight godless communism.
As one of the pond scum I support returning our motto to the founding father’s meaning and forcing national and multi-national corporations to support public policy instead of private profit.
I am a supporter of blanket belittling of all anti-humanistic behavior and appreciate Mr Fish’s work in this area.
To paraphrase Thomas Pynchon… “Demon Christers.”
The Enlightenment ideals are even more airy fairy and intellectually passé, but the Old Testament had a habit of telling the truth about history, even if it meant telling of the murders, incest, and the stupidity of the royal family. You take totally bogus statements like “all men are created equal” then act as if these were a valid description of reality you do foolish things on imperfect premises. You in the Enlightened herd accept complete nonsense when it comes to the basic facts of your own recent history. How can you dismiss religions that successfully disciplined and regulated massive societies for centuries, while you believe in fairy tales like the threats posed by Vietnamese Communism, Osama Ben Laden, and large airliners that crash but leave no wreckage, skyscrapers that fall at free-fall speed when hit by planes with a mass and speed very close to that which they were said to be designed to withstand? Few religions ever have required such leaps of faith as are customarily necessary for keeping faith with these secular Zionist dominated democracies.
It’s still an Alien Virus no matter how you cut it… And directly linked to 9/11.
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!
The alien virus of Abrahamic Monotheism – see “Not in His Image” by John Lash.
This is in fact, a variation of a Bizarro cartoon
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I will have you know that Dan is a big fan of Mr. Fish.
So the Sleestaks is fictional, just like the other character on the cross?
I find it funny.
It belittles this particular religions b/c despite all the awful things done in the name of Jesus Christ, He is still sacred to many and his crucifixion in particular is His most sacred act.
I can deal with the belittling of religion. But, like Skeptic, I don’t get it. Please explain. I really want to know.
For what it’s worth, those Sleestaks freaked me out as a kid and they freak me out to this day!
What Would Sleestak Do – DOn’t see how that belittles anyone’s religion. Now if the caption was “Chaka, I can see your house from up here”, more people would get it, and probably be more offended.
I don’t get it. Please explain.
Mr. Fish is great when he is great, but there every now and then there is one that I simply do not understand at all. Furthermore, childishly dismissing or demeaning religions that have played a major role in human history for thousands of years is what has gotten America into the mess that it is now in, not slavishly following them. Allowing the country to be pushed into a series of wars against Islam, this is something only a people who are profoundly stupid about history and religion would do. This cartoonist can be brilliant sometimes, even with his attacks on religious hypocrisy, but his childish, blanket belittling religion severely curtails his potential as a weapon against the monsters.
I see the monsters and religions as in bed with each other forcing us all to live with “faith based” social and economic systems that are raping the world and the public for the few.
We have had over 500 years since the Enlightenment to relegate religions to the myth status they deserve and it is only their fealty to the current oligarchy that gives them credibility. The founding fathers made a valiant attempt that lasted until the 1950’s when fear of communism was used to change the motto of America from E Pluribus Unum to In God We Trust. It was also about this time that corporations were given the rights of “We the people…” , again to fight godless communism.
As one of the pond scum I support returning our motto to the founding father’s meaning and forcing national and multi-national corporations to support public policy instead of private profit.
I am a supporter of blanket belittling of all anti-humanistic behavior and appreciate Mr Fish’s work in this area.