Prickly City by Scott Stantis for June 03, 2021

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    Darsan54 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Those same (I assume) Christian worshippers managed to institute slavery and later systemic racism, along with economic oppression and exploitation for the rest of us.

    Maybe it’s time for another viewpoint?

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    LookingGlass Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Since GOD is supposed to be everywhere, why should I go into some “building” to worship HER??

    (O _ O)

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    sergioandrade Premium Member over 3 years ago

    This predates the frequent use of credit cards, “In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash.” Jean Shephard.

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    braindead Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Gee, it couldn’t have anything to do with the amount of corruption in so many ‘churches’, could it?

    I mean, why wouldn’t women flock to churches who believe they should be subservient and have no control over their own bodies?

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    theotherther1  over 3 years ago

    Probably better decision making.

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    danielmkimmel  over 3 years ago

    The problem is not religion per se, it’s the fundamentalists from all sects, and those who want to impose their own beliefs on others. That by no means defines all religions or most people of faith.

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    William Robbins Premium Member over 3 years ago

    “In God We Trust" started in 1956. It’s been downhill from there. Republicans believe the nation was founded to be a Protestant* theocracy. Since history is whatever they say in red states, they’re having it their way.

    White Anglo Saxon Protestant, specifically…

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    Nantucket Premium Member over 3 years ago

    “In God We Trust” NEVER was appropriate to put on money, check what Jesus had to say about that. And “under God” was only added to the pledge of allegiance as propaganda against the “Godless Commies”.

    E Pluribus Unum should be the goal we strive for.

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    Christopher Shea  over 3 years ago

    Fewer LGBTQ people being persecuted and abused? Happy Pride Month, by the way.

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    Ignatz Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Not belonging to a house of worship is not the same thing as being secular. Lots of theists aren’t members of churches, including some very religious people.

    One thing that has made people leave churches is the behavior of some of the people in churches. A whole lot of white evangelicals think Donald Trump sits at the right hand of God, “Black-people-are-lazy-Gay-people-are-perverts-Mexicans-are-criminals-Me-Me-Me-Money-Money-Money-Jesus-Jesus-Jesus.” It’s enough to make any decent person head for the door.

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    rossevrymn  over 3 years ago

    Between the ludicrous behavior of right-wing populist Christianity and the disaster of the Catholic Church, can you blame people for being scandalized and leaving?

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    ajr58(1)  over 3 years ago

    The hubris of the religious “leaders,” thinking that just because some of us do not believe in churches, that means we do not believe in God.

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    gnorth22 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    How about we replace it with “in truth we trust”. There has been a real dearth of that lately…

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    Bookworm  over 3 years ago

    I suppose part of the problem is “God” Him or Herself. Are we talking the white Anglo-Saxon protestant God, or the Jewish Yahweh, or the Muslim Allah, or Buddhism’s Buddha, or the Hindu deity of your choice (Brahma, Saraswati, Lakshmi, Vishnu, Shiva, et al), or any of the Shinto Kami (Amaterasu-Ōmikami, Ame-no-Uzume, Fūjin, Hachiman, et al), or . . . .

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    WestNYC Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Less religion, more science. Hooray !

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    waynedc  over 3 years ago

    There is a difference between God and religion.

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    Radish the wordsmith  over 3 years ago

    It means fewer brain washed people will vote republican.

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    wagnertinatlanta  over 3 years ago

    Most of these comments on the nature of Christianity are made by people with no comprehension of the nature of Christianity, either in theory or in practice.

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    Kip W  over 3 years ago

    Seems like new (or at least different) drawings today, and the first two panels lead to a punch line in the third. Nice.

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    ferddo  over 3 years ago

    Repercussions? As John Lennon would sing, imagine…

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    Nellie Rascal  over 3 years ago

    “In Joe and Kamala we trust”

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    admiree2  over 3 years ago

    Might just be a marketing problem. Then again if the product is defective crap it is difficult to make a sale.

    All those Sundays as a kid (until I reached 18) wasted in a sterile building with horror windows and bleeding icons when I could have been doing something productive.

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    STACEY MARSHALL Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Ronald Reagan: “And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.” Remarks at an Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast in Dallas, Texas — August 23, 1984

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  over 3 years ago

    Not the first time. Barely one in seven did back in the 1770’s here. Even so church was just once a week. Also the various states said you can’t work in govt unless you are a particular kind of Christian to vote. It took awhile to ween the states off that crap.

    1833 was when that onerous religious bigotry was finally overturned in Massachusetts. Eventually all states did so.

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