Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 18, 2010

Apparently he doesn’t need prayer because he’s going to make it without prayer.

Obama fill in blank, You get kicked off with your last profile? How many does that make?

Can you flag someone for their name? I mean, we as responsible, upstanding people, should be on guard against racism and hatred. The world has come a long way, but still has a lot farther to go. Unfortunately, I think humanity is going to blow each other to smithereens anyway, no matter what the peaceful do.

A good chaplain knows most of all how to be with people of all (or no) faiths in those hard times.

BTW, that Pratt guy sounds like he comes from my family: Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Baptist, Buddhist, Atheist and NASCAR (yup, down south, that’s a religion, too).

So do Asatru faithed warriors get the traditional funeral pyre?

By not dying now, he’s just postponing the problem.

For every birth is owed one death. Can I get a second mortgage?

Sheik Yerbouti said: “Apparently he doesn’t need prayer because he’s going to make it without prayer.”

Sheik Y, just to keep it real, last rites isn’t a pitch for last-minute healing – you’re confusing it with a “Hail Mary pass”. :) It’s a request for forgiveness of the dying person’s sins and a peaceful passing. Even if you personally may think the words don’t mean anything, surely any dying person needs comfort and kindness.

And for the record, how could you know he’s going to make it “without prayer”? He was probably praying for himself – “there are no atheists in foxholes” – and others were probably praying for him too. We don’t know a tenth of what’s going inside our own heads and hearts, much less anyone else’s, so jumping to conclusions is not wise.

Oklahoma City was bashed with a terrible hail storm last Sunday with unbelievable damage. How in the world did President Obama accomplish that! Must have been him, as he certainly gets blamed for everything else. If you really pay attention, I think you will see there are three companies and one long time government agency that can take the blame for any tar balls. So-ObamaTarBalls—Get real.

my my, aren’t we all feisty this morning! must be because of that denial of our daily fix of go comics comments yesterday. makes us all thankful to be back in form bashing each other for views opposite (and therefore wrong) to ours

not that I haven’t bashed a few opposing viewers, I’m just sayin’….

I agree with nighthawks–everyone’s getting their shorts in an uproar over this and Sheik Yerbouti’s comment about the soldier not needing prayers (last rites) now because he’s going to make it. Yesterday, we were all wondering how morose Trudeau was going to become with this story line, now that he dodged that bullet, everyone’s harping on praying and the technical definition of last rites. Why can’t we keep the comments light and clever?

Question for you….

I thought only an ordained priest could give Catholic last rites? I know this Rev. can do all denominations, but last rites is a sacrament.

(I hope this is light and clever enough)

I am not sure but I believe the Vatican has allowed special exceptions for Catholics in military service.

After all, the priests are not really their employees anyway.

We should all be multi-faith. Maybe the world could be a better place.

Oh my how hilariously two-faced some peeps are… When Bush was in office, everything short of flatulence was somehow his fault…

Now that the Great Black Hope is in office, and getting the same treatment, it’s a travesty!!

@Justice22 - Agreed!! However, we don’t all need to be multi-faith… Just simply tolerant of other people’s faiths. Having basic respect for other people’s views would make the world a better place.

fbjsr: I really hope you’re right, but I’ve seen too many racist (and other insulting) remarks delivered in a “plausibly deniable” manner to have much hope that “OTB” was anything but a racist comment.

As for Katrina, there is an important difference: Obama had been president for maybe sixteen months at the time the well blew out. Bush had been president for over four and a half years at the time of Katrina. Actions he took during those four years, including sending the National Guard to Iraq, postponing Army Corps levee improvements, moving FEMA into DHS (changing its role from disaster recovery to terrorism response) and putting an incompetent boob in charge of the agency, all contributed to making the Katrina mess worse than it otherwise would have been.

Nobody’s perfect, but some are more imperfect than others.

Believe it or not, there are non-theist chaplains. Read “Good Without God” by Greg Epstein.

See details here: http://harvardhumanist.org/

Spiritual care is not exclusive to believers.

puddleglum1066..There was one other difference..the people in La and Tx were told to evacuate and they didn’t. I have not heard one person admit that maybe they lost as much as they did because they failed to listen to what they were told. Time in office really did not have any considerable impact on a Hurricane.

Some of you folks misinterpreted Sheik’s “prayer” comment.

He wasn’t referring to “last rites”, he was replying to Joe’s comment, “The Soldier still needs prayer…”

I’m a Christian, I’m not bothered by Sheik or anyone making a comment against religion cause I’m also against that. What offends me are racist avatars masking themselves as Christian which shows they have no idea about who they are claiming to worship. a guy who walked with Jews and Gentiles, who drank with a Samaritan and had a Zealot AND a tax collector on his “staff.” . I flagged the racist name from tar brain and I’ll flag it again every chance I get. You’re disgracing the cross. Grow up in Him. Don’t make others throw up on him.

Instead of bickering over what “last rites” means, can anybody explain GT’s metaphor of “mash-ups”?

The term seems to come from making audio CDs. I found this definition in Webopedia:

“The term mash-up refers to a new breed of Web-based applications created by hackers and programmers (typically on a volunteer basis) to mix at least two different services from disparate, and even competing, Web sites. A mash-up, for example, could overlay traffic data from one source on the Internet over maps from Yahoo, Microsoft, Google or any content provider. The term mash-up comes from the hip-hop music practice of mixing two or more songs.”

How much of this is understood by Henry and the Chaplain? Or by Trudeau? And is GT comparing their religious syncretism to the merging of websites? “It’s not pretty, but yeah.”

palin drome said,

‘…can anybody explain GT’s metaphor of “mash-ups”?’

A colloquial term for a multi-faith family. It is pretty obvious from the context.

CHAPTER II : THE MINISTER OF ANOINTING OF THE SICK

Can. 1003 §1 Every priest, but only a priest, can validly administer the anointing of the sick.

§2 All priests to whom has been committed the care of souls, have the obligation and the right to administer the anointing of the sick to those of the faithful entrusted to their pastoral care. For a reasonable cause, any other priest may administer this sacrament if he has the consent, at least presumed, of the aforementioned priest.

§3 Any priest may carry the holy oil with him, so that in a case of necessity he can administer the sacrament of anointing of the sick.

BTW- faiths other than Roman Catholic use the “last rites”

OTB – you’re offensive, clueless and ignorant in name and word.

@brewwitch

You mean it’s obvious that GT is comparing “a multi-faith family” to a media fabrication? Again, where does the METAPHOR come from?

What’s a “mash-up”?

Well, I think my question has already been answered. Thanx.

Mash-up derives from a movie special effects term “smash-up’. Several ( or many) pieces from plastic model kits were glued together in novel and interesting ways: instant spaceship.. or whatever.

A mash up, I believe, is several (or many) musical clips, say Mozart and Madonna, plus relevant video clips assembled in new and exciting ways.

Mash up has entered the vernacular and is a very useful term.

I’ve mashed up Wiccan and Buddhist rites to good effect.

(and pardon my grammar.)

ObamaTarBalls = You can call me Pup = Spank Me.

Missed you poopsie.

Couldn’t cope with Freerepublic?

The Day of the Ditz…

I just assumed “mash up” was like mashing potatoes. Mixing separate potatoes together.

ObamaTarGlobs said, What’s the problem? These are Obama-approved tar-balls. Obama’s MMS took a pass on certifying the rig…

You wish. MMS was responsible for BP’s approvals during the Bush administration.

@ cdward,

The Church of the Great Oval? I have a friend who is into that.

O’poopsietarbelle should be full flame by tomorrow.

There are atheists in fox holes. http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/

And why do we have bronze and iron age clerics wandering around when we could use more evidence based mental health practitioners for a modern age? God couldn’t deal with chariots of iron, how can he cope with tanks?

Thanks COYOTE and BILLDI for agreeing with me that OTBalls and/or OTGLOBS has picked out silly names that only show his/her prejudice and narrow view of the truth as to who are to blame for the spill. What stupid names!! Probably posts under other names, too, as noticed comments on other strips.

BTW, did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac? Stayed up all night worrying about whether or not there was a Dog.

Thanks for setting me straight that Katrina was an act of Bush.

Rhadamanthus:

!FOOW !FOOW !FOOW