Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 21, 2016

Donald got his share of Christian votes in winning South Carolina. But, South Carolina had no problem in starting the Civil War, either.

One difference: Trump has better P.R. people.

Satan don’t wear a yellow toupet

Seriously the Devil would have a lot more style and grace. This is one area where God and Satan are in agreement; neither wants anything to do with Rump.

It’s long my contention that the great majority of Christians look on Jesus just as they do Santa Claus: as a warm, fuzzy symbol devoid of any meaning. They ignore anything Jesus actually SAID, and presume Christianity stands for whatever they themselves practice in their daily lives.

Correction, frame eight, Hell is a rather high energy place.

Remember Vince Foster, committed suicide in 1993?

I have been a conservative all my life. This man is not a moral conservative, not a social conservative, not an economic conservative, certainly not a thinking conservative.How can Evangelical Christians support him?

Trump’s fairly fat, he always has that big suit coat draping him…

It’s all scaffolding – If the scaffolding becomes more important than the life you are using it to build, then regardless of what you claim to be, you are realy an idol worshiper. Sad how many people don’t know what they really are. How many more wars will we have over who has the best scaffolding ?

Hitler started the same way playing on the ignorance and fears of simple minded people. Certain Christian leaders in South Carolina work overtime to make sure their flocks are dumbed down and out of touch with reality just the kind of fodder Trump loves to exploit. A day has to come when he will expose the hypocrite he is hope it’s soon. Keep pounding this political misfit Mr. Trudeau.

Actually he wins Sloth too. Trump started out riding on his daddy’s money. He spouts his mouth a lot but he doesn’t doooooooo anything. Having your “people” buy and bankrupt companies, making 1,000s of good innocent people jobless for you is not industrious or in anyway Godly. I never put much stock in Revelations, but wow, he really does kinda peg the antichrist meter.

Maybe the American Christians are so fed up with 8 years of democrats that they’ll take ANYTHING at this point…

Well, the Donald won’t have Jebra to push around anymore. If so many other candidates keep hanging in there the Donald will be able to stay on top. If he doesn’t get the nomination will trump decide he wasn’t treated fairly and run as a 3rd party candidate? He signed the pledge but also said he wouldn’t honor it if “not treated fairly.”

The Democrats have had limited success due to obstructionist GOP. Still plenty of progress came about. Low unemployment, saved auto industry, saved collapse of our economy as had been under bush, a larger opportunity for those seeking healthcare, the right to gay marriage, etc. and don’t forget low gas prices ain’t bad either.

Where does one even start to begin? I’m a Christ follower who has a PhD in biology. Gary, strips like this show merely show how little you know about real Christianity. Please contact me if you ever if you ever have the desire to know the truth. I’m serious about this.

True Christians do not involve themselves in the politics of this world. Their allegiance is to God’s Kingdom, a government in heaven ruled by his son, Jesus Christ.

So the Dems can throw the first stone?

I knew eventually someone would drag out the “no true Scotsman” argument.The majority of Tea Party members are under-educated, but they believe they know more than all the voters who disagree with them. It’s the Dunning/Kruger effect.

Aw. No one really believes any of that stuff, anyway. If even one-tenth of supposed Christians believed even the fundamentals, it would be a very different world. It’s very clear that no one believes this life is mere preparation. If you really believed this life was nothing else, and emulating Jesus was the key to Heaven, what would it be like. See that happening? The notion that religious practice is about true belief is silly. If you met a genuine Christian, you’d shun him, because he would be in rags and perhaps not smell too clean, because his whole existence was focused on obedience and helping his fellows.

Yeah, as much as I like this cartoon, being attacked by “Doonesbury” just feeds into the whole Trumpster belief that he’s being attacked by the liberal media and that he’s a real conservative.

Plenty of people continue to complain about Obama despite the facts being much more positive than they let on. There is such a thing as tribalism in politics, in which some won’t give the other side any credit no matter what they do. Of course, in Obama’s case, the level of obstructionism was unprecedented. They didn’t even try to hide it.

The Pope too has the right to weigh in with his beliefs. I never thought I would see the day when I would have to defend the Pope, but Trump being the egomaniac that he is, it would appear this is true.

Pretty telling, if you ask me. As for bashing other candidates to defend The Donald’s brand of bad values, that’s the about as childish an argument as it comes and is extremely flawed logic. It makes the straw man fallacy look sophisticated.

Vince Foster? Good call! They’ve only had since the 80s to find a shred of evidence (I mean for guilt, not against it), so maybe they just need another couple of decades to find something..Repeat for every other wild-hair allegation they’ve made over the years: Maybe by 2025, they’ll find something in one of them that’s not bile, baked in hot air.

Ah…….. Trudeau, a lot of those flaws apply to all the candidates.

Add sloth, he hits all seven: Lazy people consider themselves smarter than seven wise counselors. Proverbs 26:16

Thank god I’m an atheist…..

There doesn’t have to be. Hating Hillary is an easy game. You just repeat stuff over and over. Maybe some’s true, maybe some isn’t, but politics has become very simple: just pick a foe and keep ranting the same rant.

no talent Comic strip politics….for when you’re just calling it in.

Didn’t you know she killed Vince Foster?

Trump has promised to deport, bomb, and torture well beyond “quaint” waterboarding, anyone he doesn’t like if POTUS. Cruz the Cuban is all for deportation and war, much like the Batista-loving Rubio. All three of them defame Christianity (well all religions of true faith), Republicans, and yes, any true American Patriot who loves and protects the Constitution, and rule of law. The lines between treason, hypocrisy, hate, and insanity are their playing field, and they treat and cross all moral boundaries like erasable chalk lines. Their bars regarding ethics aren’t raised, their in a deep pit.

Aside that, those three are the “leaders” in the race to the bottom for the Republican nomination. Beyond disgusting, and that is NOT speaking as a Christian, Liberal, Conservative, or distinct label, other than “sentient human being”. (Okay, basically adherent to Buddhist philosophy, which Jesus actually taught a good deal of in many cases, and so did Mohammed.)

Garry sums the obvious.

tRump is great! I’m foursquare behind him for the Republican nomination! ‘Cuz if he is nominated, he’s gonna blow the GOTP clean out of the water, he’ll burn the thing down. Same thing would happen with Terd Cruz, but he’s not nearly as much fun. And, well, who’s that other guy? Oh, please! Anyway, I still strongly suspect that tRump is on a deliberate mission to destroy the Party of Jefferson Davis. I wish him all the best…

Once people get to know the other GOP people, they won’t be considered so great either. Rubio is an absolutist on abortion. No abortion allowed even with rape or incest. And they are scrambling to say how much more money they will blow on the military weaponry which we already have in excess. If they would spend more on military personnel, fine, but that never happens.

Ironically, Cruz was born in Canada. Trump is right about that, he should probably be disqualified.

Many GOP idiots who thought our Hawaiian born president was born in Kenya, are now backing a guy who was born in Canada.

Pride? Greed? Envy? Lust? Gluttony? Wrath?

Apparently BENGHAZI is much more important than all of those.

Benghazi? Oh sure, I hope the GOP has another hearing on that since it turned out SO well for them the last time!!!

Author frank mccourt used to ask his high school students if they knew about the 7 deadly sins and then ask them how could they enjoy themselves unless they did?

I was not raised in a Christian home and knew very little about the Christian religion. I went to college in the early 1980’s, around the same time groups like Moral Majority and Pat Robertson were flexing their muscles. Every semester, a group of missionaries from the Gideon’s Society used come up to our campus in New York and hand out pocket size copies of the New Testament. It was the first time I read it thoroughly. The first thing that struck me was how what Jesus preached differed so sharply from what Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson preached.The second thing that struck me was the passage below:Matthew 6:5-6

5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

The reason I found the passage so interesting was because of the debate about school prayer. Are these people trying to make children hypocrites in the eyes of the God they claim to worship?Only reason I could come up with was they wanted to show they had the power to force their will on others.

“Moderate” Kasich just defunded Planned Parenthood. There is an article concerning this on Huffpo today. Jeb was awful too. I remember his shenanigans regarding Terri Schiavo. How disgusting to intervene in a right to die case, which should have strictly been a family matter, to make it into a public debate. They are the ones who want government intervention more than anyone. Just awful. The GOP candidates are like one big clown car.

Giving money to the symphony, the theater, ballet, etc, while tax deductible, is not charity. Besides which, they’re the people with the money, so they can afford to.

Trump is a loud mouthed narcissistic egomaniacal iconoclastic boor. So what’s the problem? Even the people who voted for him know that. They just want to shake things up in the GOP. I hope they sober up come election time. But who else is there to vote for?

The religious sheep follow Trump because he is authoritarian, as are religions.

Now that I think about it. Republican supporters of Trump are the first actual RINO’s I have ever encountered.

I have a difficult time distinguishing Donald Trump from Jesus Christ. When he feeds us all fishes, it will be YUGE!

I’ve been wondering this myself…

He’s a lazy intellect, a proud know-nothing who never spends any energy on bettering his mind or improving his inconsistent ramblings. There’s your Sloth right there.