Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 05, 2012

Brilliant!!! to be absolutely perfect, could have included the Watchtower people – guys in suits, handing out literature, soliciting for funds (to pay off their abuse damages) Let’s face it – they have been shouting the loudest. They hold the world record for ‘most failed predictions’. nevertheless, their common catchphrase is “We have the Truth”. Come one, Wiley, do us a series where the Watchtower people try to convert Danae! Will be absolutely priceless. End up with a reference to the Candace Conti abuse case.

This week on When Faiths Collide.

more fiun it it’s a mormon and and actual American christian. they actually do join arms over “values” and everything goes to heck.

Considering which church and which mosque they seem to rep, you have it right for once.

Meaning you didn’t myth this time.

Need the rabbi for a “three way”.

Matter and anti matter….And it doesn’t matter at all…believe what you want…..then go commune with a couple beers some pretzels…….and watch The Life of Brian…or listen to Days of Future Past…..And if you want another beer? Go for it!.

The only difference between religion and a cult is numbers and tax status.

Left wing politics is also a religious cult.

Fantastic.

religion ruins everything. they are a bunch of tax-cheats, con artists, pedophiles. and, that is their “spiritual” leaders. some of them still believe the earth is flat.

Which one is more likely to start a riot?

And since the right has co-opted, or been co-opted by the (non)religious right, who is the real cult? ( Jesus said the second great commandment was “Love thy neighbor as thyself.) Considering the demonization of gays, women, Latinos, and anyone else who doesn’t believe in their very narrow mind set, there are going to be a lot of self-professed Christians” disappointed in the afterlife!

Myth is Truth.They aren’t factually true, but they’re True.Always remember the difference between truth and Truth.

But they are both half right…

It’s too bad that what we call the three major religions all derive from the same “Father”, Abraham! We blame the Muslims for “jihad”, yet moderate Muslims say that word describes trying to change the mind of your opponents within your own religion. We in the west purposefully forget the Inquisition, where Jews and others were tortured to confess, then profess their “conversion” to Catholicism! This possibly includes my family. My Grandmother’s maiden name was Hammerstein. When we went to Germany to meet my wife’s relatives in 1994, and I mentioned Grandmother’s maiden name, we were hit with a shocked “JUDISCH?” Some things apparently do not change.

come on folks. it’s mind over matter. i do not mind, so it does not matter…

the Witnesses DO NOT solicit funds,DO disfellowship anyone who violates scriptural principles unrepentantly…get your factsstraight.

i think of "Funny how God always happens to believe what “X” beleives. no matter the religion, it is always your “obligation” to believe someone else’s religious stuff.

there really needs to be a separation of church and state. all these years of State enforced Christianity on us in America.

and to have to pay taxes for these “my way or hell” state/IRS supported religions. power corrupt and religion corrupts absolutely.

There aren’t nearly enough people colliding at that intersection.

OM

There was a story recently about religious banners at a school’s football game:

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/21/14014185-texas-cheerleaders-fight-for-biblical-banners-at-football-games?lite

The poster the kids are working on states, “If god is for us, who can be against us”, or words to that effect.

I don’t know if there is a god. I think not. If there is, why would he favor one school’s football team or another. More to the point, what’s the spread, and how much is he willing to bet?

Joseph Campbell said it best, “Mythology – what you call somebody else’s religion”

A lot of people seem to need this kind of crutch. Far be it from me to kick someone’s crutch out from under them. As long as they don’t attack me with it.

Maybe the WWE can arrange a death match between the Pope and a Shiite ayatollah. The winner would have to face off against Glenn Beck for all the religious marbles.

Religion is not the root of all evil – it is only a mask evil people wear to hide themselves. This cartoon could just as easily be a religious extremist vs. an atheist extremist. They both believe only they know the truth – everyone else is just to blind to see the world as they do. Sadly, this seems to be a growing attitude . . .

And thus starts the war (literally and figuratively)… as it has time after time. It saddens me to read many of these comments. Darned humanity. We can never get it right. We forget more than we remember.

And that speaks well for Jefferson, who had no use for Christianity at all and wrote God and the Godlet out of his Bible.

faithful clash…

Christendom and Islam are heading for a collision…but this cartoon does not show the object falling out of the sky that will crush them both…

Blasphemy is a victimless crime.

They’re both myth.

If God were here, he’d tell you that you are all sinners. I know. He just tweeted me about it.

No institution has led to so many wars, so much hate, and so many innocent death as religion. So much for, “Turn the other cheek,” or, “It is much better to wage a jihad (struggle on behalf of the faith, NOT holy war!) with the hands, heart, and tongue.”

In all this criticism of religion, don’t forget that the governments that have been based on atheism have been the one’s that killed more of their own citizens in the 20th century that any war. Look at Mao and communist china, 75 million killed. What you are blaming on religion is endemic to the human animal.

Today’s comic bodes ill for tomorrow. The scariest day of every leap year: ELECTION DAY! NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! ::hides in a fallout shelter::

Ashburn, don’t forget Bliss, Paradise is really beyond Bliss….But heaven is just Nort a da Bridge, eh?

I that the corner of live and learn or sink or swim….

Why is killing those who disagree with your religious beliefs considered good and not evil?

Shouldn’t that be a donkey and an elephant

I take it you’re an Atheist.

Oh, Jerusalem! the formula for trouble is having a government buoy up their power base with a state religion. There was relatively little trouble between orthodox and muslims until the new wave of conquerors said ‘Lookie here, there’s a pack of pilgrim tourists. Let’s tax ‘em!’.Then the tax revolt started, then the crusades got going, then only Saladin listened to St. Francis’ peace envoy, on on on always a government trying to control the future World Capitol. And the whole time the local church/mosque congregations showed some hospitality to the visitors.

How do you know the bible is true? Because it says it is, that’s how." And these people can vote!

dtroutma, I am afraid you are incorrect. Jews do not proselytize, nor do they claim that their religion is the only one. it is the only one for them, but I have never heard one make a “mine is the only one” statement.Masterskrain, A Rabbi once said" to be a Jew you don’t have to believe in G-d, just follow the rules." So I guess religion and civilization can co-exist.

My religion is the answer to this Jeopardy question: "For which religion will you spend eternity scrubbing celestial toilets, if you aren’t one of us?

Somebody (Gandhi? the Dalai Lama?) once said something along the lines of “If you are a Christian, be a good Christian. If you are a Muslim, be a good Muslim. If you are a Buddhist, be a good Buddhist. If you are an atheist, be a good atheist.”

And Thomas Jefferson may not have had much use for “Christianity”, but he thought Jesus of Nazareth was the most profound and revolutionary moral philosopher who ever lived. Yeah, the “Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson” ends with the crucifixion, but he (TJ) thought that all the miracles and metaphysics were silly distractions which drew attention away from the important parts, Jesus’s moral teachings of Peace, Love and Compassion (and Forgiveness, and Charity, and…).

By the way, Jefferson also predicted that by 1900 we’d all be Unitarians.

Its not a real religion unless it has a 1-800 number…Stephen Colbert.

The problem is not specifically the various religions, nor is it politics. The problem is humanity. If there were no religions or politics over which to disagree, it would be something else. Humans are the worst citizens of this planet and we’re becoming less civil by the day.

What’s most comical is that you have guys of the SAME religion that would fit this strip.

One is does need to point out that, through Mao and Stalin, atheism has it’s own Inquisitions and jihads. This is more human than religious.

Will agree that humans will kill without religion. However, religion exerts such a powerful influence in many people’s lives that she could surely do more to prevent slaughter. Her bloodguiltiness comes by trying to be friends with politics and being willing to advance warlike policies rather than taking the high moral ground she claims to have. She is willing to sacrifice innocent lives in exchange for influence and power.

People actually believe in super natural beings…Amazing……..Is God more powerful than Galactus?

A court has ruled that, since the sign did not mention a particular religion, it fell under the banner of free speech.

There’s nothing an agnostic can’t do if he REALLY doesn’t know whether he believes in anything or not. - Graham Chapman.