Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 12, 2022

The meek shall inherit the earth.. after I’m done with it.

This reminds me a bit of the old Grin and Bear It cartoons by Lichty. Both the drawing style and content are similar.

Blessed are the cheesemakers

Jesus was a dark skinned Jewish man who preached about loving the foreigners, caring for the sick, poor, and hungry, preached against hording wealth, and about not seeking vengeance. It’s funny how in America, the “party of Christian values” seems to be dead set against Christ’s teachings, while claiming that those who follow Christ’s teachings are satanic.

“Blessed are the meek, for they are easier to litigate.”

The Republican motto, lol.If there is anything left to inherit, that is.

My first boss had a sign hanging in his office that impressed me at the time:

“Yea, though I walk through

The Valley of Darkness

I fear no Evil —

‘Cause I’m the Meanest SOB

IN The Valley!”

That is how you get both religious people and atheists to vote for you. The atheists assume you aren’t serious.

sums up todays political clime

It is expensive being poor.

Another Cherry-Picking Christian Nationalist… only use the parts of the Buy Bull that YOU like, and ignore the rest.

A Leftist-Elitist icon! Worshipping wealth created by others, and exploited or stolen from them. Such faith is misplaced.

The meaning of “meek” has changed over the years.

Today it means wimpish and timid.

It used to mean those who are oppressed, disenfranchised or without station or power, yet endure.

The mantra of the 1%.

Excellent commentary!

Ah yes. A water into wine Baptist. My kind of party.

Far too true…

there is a Monty Python gag line in here someplace…someday all this shall be yours…

Meek did not mean lie down and take it. It is to follow the less violent path of resistance. We can take things to a court of law if it is necessary. We should participate in politics to make things better for all people.

As someone else has said, Christ was more liberal than most Christian’s believe

Blessed are the stupid as they will believe the lies.

“The meek shall inherit the Earth”…if that’s OK with you

The boss is saying the quiet part out loud…

That control is precisely why corporate America spent so much time & effort inventing & promoting a new brand of individualistic pietism (Fundamentalism) in the early 20th century, & co-opting “civil religion” from the 1940s on…

https://religiondispatches.org/how-marketers-invented-old-time-religion/

https://uncpress.org/book/9781469633435/guaranteed-pure/

https://www.npr.org/2015/03/30/396365659/how-one-nation-didnt-become-under-god-until-the-50s-religious-revival

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/396365659

https://history.princeton.edu/about/publications/one-nation-under-god-how-corporate-america-invented-christian-america

The meek shall not inherit the earth, stupidity will overwhelm it.

Sadly this seems to be true of most religious people (no matter what religion they claim to follow).

The good news is that when you know the Truth, the Truth will set you free.

Now we just need more people to seek out the Truth.

His prefered pronoun is MINE.

Nowadays it’s religious-y.

Prosperity Gospel

At the rate we are going, is there going to be an earth to be inherited after all the polluters and exploiters are done with it?

Like the evangelicals, he always tells the truthiness.

I clicked “like” for this comic, but it is actually sad. Too true to be funny.

Do not forget the stupid folks that believe everything they hear without checking it out! Called fact checking!

Democrat slogan on the wall.

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall catch heck from both sides

He’s a religious person alright. He thinks he’s God.

Even easier to control are the conned, the duped and the grifted, and they even step right up and pay for it.

Not the best idea to telegraph your punches so blatantly, I’d think … In the Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (BBC Sitcom), his boss had a little mantra that he muttered when someone came to see him : “1, 2, 3, 4, make them wait outside the door; 5, 6, 7, 8, always pays to make them wait; 9, 10 – COME IN!” A little more subtle perhaps, but still just as nasty.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. — Seneca