Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 10, 2010

  1. Emerald
    margueritem  almost 15 years ago

    It’s always God’s fault….

     •  Reply
  2. Mafalda stilo
    caucel  almost 15 years ago

    I atheist for that reason Calvin! :)

    I share your angry! : )

     •  Reply
  3. Missing large
    FUNIG1  almost 15 years ago

    maybe not, but I ALWAYS blame Someone Else!

     •  Reply
  4. Olive tree small
    olivetree  almost 15 years ago

    I wouldn’t mind some snow myself…

     •  Reply
  5. Grog poop
    GROG Premium Member almost 15 years ago

    I moved to Houston to get away from it. The bad news is I didn’t; the good news is it doesn’t stick around until April

     •  Reply
  6. Nanny poo
    carmy  almost 15 years ago

    Go flush an ice cube down the toilet, Calvin!

     •  Reply
  7. Woody with beer
    WoodEye  almost 15 years ago

    Snow? What’s that? I live in San Diego…

    Last snow 1967, before that 1949.

     •  Reply
  8. Th giraffe
    lazygrazer  almost 15 years ago

    Calvin negotiates with God the same way I do. Gets the same results too.

     •  Reply
  9. Veggie tales
    Yukoner  almost 15 years ago

    A dead atheist : all dressed up and no place to go.

     •  Reply
  10. Missing large
    kreole  almost 15 years ago

    Calvin’s negotiation with God lacks focus…he should be praying to the Snow God.

     •  Reply
  11. Mafalda stilo
    caucel  almost 15 years ago

    A dead atheist : all dressed up and no place to go.

    hehehe! Funny!

    A dead religious: All dressed up and… (nothing there? Yeah science. :)

     •  Reply
  12. But eo
    Rakkav  almost 15 years ago

    Be careful what you wish for, Calvin - you might get it! I’m on the southern tail end of the Current Cold Snap and it’s quite bad enough, thank you!

     •  Reply
  13. Missing large
    Dberrymanal1  almost 15 years ago

    An atheist has nothing to gain if they are right, and everything to lose if they are wrong. While a Christian has everything to gain if they are right, and nothing to lose if they are wrong.

     •  Reply
  14. Missing large
    bbHhh  almost 15 years ago

    Dberrymanal1, there are several responses to Pascal’s wager. My favorites are the Saganesque “Not only is there nothing to be gained by believing an untruth, but there is everything to lose when we sacrifice the indispensable tool of reason on the altar of superstition.” – Freedom from religion foundation;

    “Question with boldness even the existence of God; because if there be one, He must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.” – Thomas Jefferson;

    “And what if we picked the wrong religion? Every week, we’re just making God madder and madder!” – Homer J. Simpson

     •  Reply
  15. Missing large
    jrbj  almost 15 years ago

    Move to Wisconsin, Calvin. Even Atheists get snowbound here. I used to be a Christian. Then I went through a Wisconsin winter. No God would do that to a human being.

     •  Reply
  16. B3b2b771 4dd5 4067 bfef 5ade241cb8c2
    cdward  almost 15 years ago

    jrbj are you kidding? I used to live in Wisconsin and thanked God every day for the snow. Love it! Live in upstate New York now and even though we have it, I want more.

    As to the atheist question, I guess we’ll all have to wait and see. But it behooves everyone on all sides of that question to respect those on the other sides (and everywhere inbetween) because each of the many sides of the discussion about whether God exists and what God is like can be held by reasonable people. The most pointless thing of all is to point to others and say, “You’re wrong!”

    As for me, I believe in God but have long held that it is those who love who will be with God in eternity (since God is love), regardless of their faith here.

     •  Reply
  17. Missing large
    GLENN B WOODEN  almost 15 years ago

    I’ve been knocking on heaven’s door for several years now, with no answer. Either nobody’s home…or they don’t want my company. But, I think we all sometimes try to bargain with God, even for petty things like Calvin is doing. The King is under no requirement to give an audience–or answer– to his subjects. In some cultures, if a person approached the king uninvited, he was immediately killed.

     •  Reply
  18. Calvin n hobbes 733953
    Miss.Fit  almost 15 years ago

    snow…!!! It never snows in the part of the world I live in… but it’s too cold here today ….brrrrr… okay .. SNOW !! SNOW NOW!!!

     •  Reply
  19. Large dd2
    zero  almost 15 years ago

    Cartoon characters who never have to shovel that @#%&! @#%&!, get NO vote…

     •  Reply
  20. Cutiger
    rentier  almost 15 years ago

    Never snow this must be dreary!

     •  Reply
  21. Kitty at sunset
    wicky  almost 15 years ago

    Even atheists say “thank God”.

     •  Reply
  22. Picture 001
    rshive  almost 15 years ago

    Beg and plead as you like Calvin. It’ll snow when it’s good and ready – probably on a Saturday.

     •  Reply
  23. 00000
    alondra  almost 15 years ago

    Dberrymanal1 said,

    An atheist has nothing to gain if they are right, and everything to lose if they are wrong. While a Christian has everything to gain if they are right, and nothing to lose if they are wrong.

    ~~~

    That’s right. As for the snow, we’ve had plenty of it the past couple of weeks. I’d be glad for Calvin to come up here and haul it all back to wherever he lives.

     •  Reply
  24. What has been seen t1
    lewisbower  almost 15 years ago

    I believe in a loving God. No snow! No snow! Do this for me God and I won’t steal so much from the collection plate.

     •  Reply
  25. Missing large
    Brother_James437  almost 15 years ago

    Snow I don’t mind, it’s after it thaws a bit & refreezes so it becomes ice. that I hate, especially when the people in charge don’t spread the salt. to get rid of it.

     •  Reply
  26. 125px flag of colorado svg
    CaptainColorado  almost 15 years ago

    Psalm 53:1 - “The fool hath said in his heart, ‘There is no God’.” (KJV)

     •  Reply
  27. Waving flag
    Trainwreck_1  almost 15 years ago

    I woke this morning and looked out my window to see we had got 12” short of a foot of snow here in Southen New Mexico. But it was 15 so I know I’ll have to break the cows water again…

     •  Reply
  28. 5346ae65734b4d0e82350407ef0d8e00 250
    cleokaya  almost 15 years ago

    Do you know what I believe? I believe Calvin is having one hell of a hissy fit.

     •  Reply
  29. Missing large
    bagjunah  almost 15 years ago

    me thinks we make to much to do about nothing, it’s a comic strip

     •  Reply
  30. Fearlessfos
    Treker137  almost 15 years ago

    I’m reminded of another strip:

    Hobbes: Do you think there’s a god?

    Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!

     •  Reply
  31. Avatar 4519
    Dino-1  almost 15 years ago

    cdward: I live in upstate New York too and we’ve got a foot of snow here now. The time I don’t like the snow is when I have about a foot or more on the car mixed with ice to clear off. The other time is when I’m stuck in “white-out” conditions driving on our winding country roads. I do enjoy having great snow ball fights, building snow forts and snowpeople, and making snow angels and the fresh cool smell when walking in a light snowstorm. I love it when it’s frosty and the snow looks like it’s covered in diamonds as it reflects the sunlight. Right now we’re in a “cold snap” and it’s 10:00 AM and -3 degrees outside right now. A good day to stay cuddled up with a blanket on the couch with a loved one watching DVD’s or ordering a movie on the on-demand cable channel.

     •  Reply
  32. Tarot
    Nighthawks Premium Member almost 15 years ago

    oh, THAT is convincing!— a bible quote that says youre a fool if you don’t believe in god….that’s like a company t that quotes it’s own hired actors to claim their product is better….

    here is a couple of dusies:

    For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death.

    If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

    When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations … then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.

    ah yes, the merciful god, indeed

     •  Reply
  33. Dscf0004
    ninmas  almost 15 years ago

    sigh… this was one of the the first C&H that i saw…

     •  Reply
  34. 035
    napaeric  almost 15 years ago

    blind faith, is that like blind justice. I have seen how blind justice works in the court rooms and I am not convinced the legal system is either blind or just. So blind faith seems like it would follow a similar pattern.

     •  Reply
  35. Missing large
    martymac  almost 15 years ago

    just talking to God proves you’re not an atheist.

     •  Reply
  36. 563914 354233334618550 459561091 n
    lingsu  almost 15 years ago

    Hey! Miss Fit it cold here where I am plus got lot of snow To bad there not a way to send some snow like you would

     •  Reply
  37. Baby angel with roses a
    Ushindi  almost 15 years ago

    Good for you, nighthawks - I still love what George Carlin said about religion, so I think I’ll quote him one more time:

    “Religion easily has the greatest bulls**t story ever told. Think about it, religion has actually convinced people that there’s an INVISIBLE MAN…LIVING IN THE SKY…who watches every thing you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten special things that he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry for ever and ever ‘til the end of time…but he loves you.”

     •  Reply
  38. Missing large
    1148559  almost 15 years ago

    @ Aardvark359,

    Regarding your response to my post of yesterday:

    The only reason my post yesterday was so long was because I gave the background to the comparison I used. Since you made it clear that it was too much for you to comprehend, I have gone back and edited it down to the pertinent parts.

    Mocking is a form of humor, I will give you that… but it is a mean spirited form with a hostile attitude.

    An insult phrased in a humorous manner is still an insult.

    You can of course, make such posts if you wish, but don’t expect to do so without getting called on it.

     •  Reply
  39. Wolf3
    COWBOY7  almost 15 years ago

    Faith is what you personally make of it. Have faith, Calvin!

     •  Reply
  40. Missing large
    peterpunn  almost 15 years ago

    Even most religious people must agree that the greatest gift God gave us is the ability to think, question and reason. That ability has been the source of all human development and sets us apart from all other (known) creatures. So if a person knowingly puts aside this gift and gives in to blind faith (even if it be faith in God himself) then it is an insult to God. To truly honor God, you MUST question everything, use logical reasoning, and then reach your own conclusions.

     •  Reply
  41. Missing large
    jtcwww  almost 15 years ago

    peterpunn, you win!!! Great point. Hope all those fundamentalists get a clue.

     •  Reply
  42. The terminator
    jbmetalmonster  almost 15 years ago

    i dont understand why calvin loves snow so much it drives me insane w/ the shoveling and it getting in the way when i wanna do something outside for once idli

     •  Reply
  43. 000 0415
    MILDOG172  almost 15 years ago

    I belive in God. Not so sure about snow.

     •  Reply
  44. 000 0415
    MILDOG172  almost 15 years ago

    I belive in God. Not so sure about snow.

     •  Reply
  45. 000 0415
    MILDOG172  almost 15 years ago

    I belive in God. Not so sure about snow.

     •  Reply
  46. 000 0415
    MILDOG172  almost 15 years ago

    I belive in God. Not so sure about snow.

     •  Reply
  47. 000 0415
    MILDOG172  almost 15 years ago

    I belive in God. Not so sure about snow.

     •  Reply
  48. Bth baby puppies1111111111 1
    kab2rb  almost 15 years ago

    Where I’m from when the cold front hit we had very little snow but very bitter temps. This week we will have a warm front. When we had snow around Christmas wasn’t that much thankfully.

     •  Reply
  49. Dsc00030
    alviebird  almost 15 years ago

    jtcwww, Who said fundamentalists advocate blind faith? Your assumption is way off base. Sounds to me like peterpunn could be one of ‘us’.

     •  Reply
  50. Missing large
    nomistake  almost 15 years ago

    Reads like alot of people don’t believe in a higher power. Makes me wonder if they live by the comic strip. Religion has its purpose in an peoples lives if doesn’t work for you just leave others alone and be happy with your comics.

    I do believe but do not walk a fanatic line nor preach to others, I just hold my head high and struggle through life with my family and friends.

    You athiest out there do more preaching than any other adhoc religion. Ha athiest preacher preaching to others that there way of life makes more sense.

     •  Reply
  51. Missing large
    nomistake  almost 15 years ago

    Praise Calvin the all mighty and his vengeful tiger.

     •  Reply
  52. Missing large
    BigHug  almost 15 years ago

    My daughter’s the same way. She’s so anxious for snow. It’s come now, she’s so cold and wants to go inside. Can’t wait for summer now lol.

     •  Reply
  53. Fl blue
    Smartone2000  almost 15 years ago

    Here where I live, we only get about three or four inches of snow, and it only snows once or twice every winter. Every time it snows, I always thank God for his perfect, cold, icy present.

     •  Reply
  54. Willy wonka factory
    dsom8  almost 15 years ago

    1) Calvin is a cartoon character, a caricature of childish thinking. The strip is an analogy, and - as someone once said - you can’t make an analogy walk on all fours.

    2) Re. George Carlin quote. God knows we can’t keep the commandments because we have already rejected Him. Thus He has condemned us already. His love is shown in that He gave Himself, in the person of Jesus Christ, to take that condemnation on Himself so that we do not have to. But we have to believe that “good news” to be true.

    3) @jtcwww and peterpunn. We fundamentalists have always been there. God is a being with reason and a God of relationship. He created us to have a relationship with Him. Where that has been expressed in human culture, great progress has been made.

     •  Reply
  55. Pirate on the anchor color
    daphygirl  almost 15 years ago

    @ napaeric

    Blind faith is when you believe in something with no proof of it’s existance. Therefore believing in God is not the same as having a blind faith because if you choose to see it, there is proof everywhere of God’s existance. I have seen with my own eyes a man with a seriosly injured ankle get prayed over and then take off his brace and all the wrappings that had been put on and walk across the room with no problem. That was not blind faith.

     •  Reply
  56. Simpsonized me close up
    mrprongs  almost 15 years ago

    So you only wnat grass duirng the hot summer months, when you’ll soon have to mow it?

     •  Reply
  57. Missing large
    Puddleglum2  almost 15 years ago

    cdward said, “As for me, I believe in God but have long held that it is those who love who will be with God in eternity (since God is love), regardless of their faith here.”

    “Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the father, but by me.” John 14:6 “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Acts 4:12 You may choose to believe the Bible or not, but it says what it says very plainly..

     •  Reply
  58. Missing large
    Puddleglum2  almost 15 years ago

    nighthawks said, “ah yes, the merciful god, indeed”

    God makes the rules. If God is love, and God is good, He has his reasons for what he does. If you disobey what God has determined should or shouldn’t be done, expect the consequences. I trust that God knows what he is doing. Since God has the power to create the vast and magnificent universe and holds it all together, I have to trust that there is a marvelous ‘method to his madness’. “What are we, just a couple specks of nothing…” Billy Bigelow (from Carousel) “And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.” Colossians 1:17 This refers to Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the second person of the Holy Trinity.

     •  Reply
  59. Missing large
    Puddleglum2  almost 15 years ago

    @Ushindi, George Carlin is dead. Ask him (if you can), what he would like to say from beyond the grave. “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:” Hebrews 9:27 I’ll take my chances with the God of the Bible, rather than with a blasphemous foul-mouthed comedian. How funny is he now?

     •  Reply
  60. Missing large
    Puddleglum2  almost 15 years ago

    The fact that the universe is here affirms the existence of God. It’s either God or evolution. Take your choice. I believe evolution is impossible, but the atheist must believe in it anyway because it’s the only alternative to God. Every now and then, someone says something to the effect that it’s only a comic, but the comic brings out life situations. We discuss such things and reach our own conclusions or confusions. What wrong with that? Calvin is like the more or less typical atheists. God has to be the way they think he should be or they won’t believe in Him. Take Him or leave Him, but I agree with the Bible. To deny His existence is the essence of utter foolishness.

     •  Reply
  61. Mafalda stilo
    caucel  almost 15 years ago

    ¨An atheist has nothing to gain if they are right, and everything to lose if they are wrong. While a Christian has everything to gain if they are right, and nothing to lose if they are wrong.¨

    Atheist gain the freedom for choice theirs own path without myth and superstition, and that is enough for us.

    If we are true, Christian lost the only one life that we have, just for a lie and that is a major risk I think.

     •  Reply
  62. Mafalda stilo
    caucel  almost 15 years ago

    Puddleglum2: Atheist believe in the science, Evolution is just a theory, if the science find another answer we change the mind about evolution.

    I try say, we believe in facts, science is about show evidence, about investigation.

    Just because you thinking that Unicorn exist , doesn’t means that is there.

     •  Reply
  63. Av troll2
    Aardvark359  almost 15 years ago

    Welcome to the club Calvin! (We all get there eventually!)

     •  Reply
  64. Winter
    diggit03  almost 15 years ago

    it’s may be a blessing in disguise calvin, sweety. God know’s what he’s doing.

     •  Reply
  65. 250px garfieldand friends
    wowzo  over 12 years ago

    Ye of little faith,calvin

     •  Reply
  66. Missing large
    elchinodewita  almost 11 years ago

    Did you notice they skipped a couple of strips? Wonder why…

     •  Reply
  67. Tc bear 6 1 19 cropped
    jr1234  over 1 year ago

    Calvin, live in MinneSNOWta

     •  Reply
Sign in to comment

More From Calvin and Hobbes