Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 07, 2023

Will any religious people admit that they are wrong when they end up in hell? The story of Job might make them think that they can wait for a savior.

If only there were a special hell for those who follow their religions that tells them to “spread the word” and convert the non-believers.

One game is to have each of your friends open the bible to a random page, and do what is listed. The last person in jail wins.

There’s hundreds, maybe thousands, of different religions in the world, and there’s ridiculous many sects within those religions, and almost every one of them thinks it’s the only one that’s totally right. Just ask them…

Just do the religion part. Everything else will follow.

Besides all the religion BS.

There is still LOVE in the world and that counts for a lot!!

Well, we ALL knew that!!

What if I have a faith but don’t want to impose it on anyone?

That must be where the lake of boiling blood is deepest.

If all religions are right, as the think they are, and they say that if you don’t follow their religion you will go to hell, does that mean that there is no heaven?

Buddha has a point. People with opinions just go around bothering each other.

Telling a child they will burn in hell is child abuse and a lie.

And the main pollution from that furnace is turmoil.

Blessed Good Friday to all from your friend, The Count and Countess. If you choose not to accept the Blessings, that’s on you.

A small part of the Bible that I believe absolutely, “Dust to Dust, Ashes to Ashes”. Now have yourselves a Good Friday.

It’s called Good Friday because, by Jesus’ death, he became the final, complete sacrifice for our sins. We couldn’t have erased our sins. Our hands would have been forever stained with every single sin for a lifetime. But Jesus broke the bonds of death and sin! The greater LOVE of God prevailed. Since there are only two choices for eternity, why not chose the one spent in a loving God’s presence, rather than the torment of the hell originally planned only for the devil and his demons?

Like there’s more than two genders, politicians want to help, that other side is bad. Those are the worst ones

This door in hell is around the corner from the one reserved for people who drive slowly in the left lane.

Is that one a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives republicans, you know the ones who went fascist on the democrats and but only expelled the two who were black!

Does “Climate Change” fall under political dogma? Or in Al Gore’s case, is it a religion?

right-wing populism……………..scandalizing Christianity for decades

Could replace that sign with GREED IS GOOD samey same.

There is an innate evil in some humans, of that, there is no doubt. It needs little encouragement to flourish.

To my simple mind, religions are constructs of people. Of people, by people, for people and to serve people’s needs. In order for one person, a leader, to be able to lead they must have some authority to give their rules weight over any others. There are really only two ways to do this, carrots and sticks, god and guns, temptation or force. The hard part about God, or gods, is separating them from what religions want us the believe about them. If you could forget all that religion has taught you, what would god be?

I am not here to save the world. If you happen to be a Christian, then you believe that’s already been done and by someone with better credentials than I have.

I do not have faith (literally) in a God that needs the backing of a major political party to get his will done. Jesus wasn’t popular with those who held political power.

The Christ said, “Love one another as I have loved you.” He did not say, “beat them into submission.”

And one day, people will understand that there is no such thing as “soul” and all this silliness of “where will you go when you die” will fall by the wayside.

A very good point Wiley.

This is a holy week for several religions—some which have adopted/adapted pagan rituals as part of their celebrations. And it’s a traditional time for many just to celebrate Spring: new birth, rebirth, renewal, starting over, warmth, sunshine, spring cleaning.

The mother of all irony

This Is spot on: we all know how the road the poor soul took to get there is paved.

believe what you want but don’t hate on others for what they believe. hate is what’s wrong with the world (and climate change). just because it’s not YOUR way don’t make it right or wrong or bad or good.

Last week our pastor said the concept of Hell as a place of fire and eternal torment started with Dante’s Inferno, and before that it was just a separation from God.

Jesus made claims to be God.His resurrection validated those claims.Heaven and hell do exist. He taught about them.The most loving thing that I can do for anyone is to tell them the truth about Jesus.

I don’t want to go there when I die.

So this is the driving force for magma generation and convection currents in the center of the earth. Good to know

“Over 90,000 Indigenous peoples were forced to stay at the Spanish missions in California between 1770-1834, being kept in well-guarded mission compounds. This has been described as defacto slavery, 1 as they were forced to work on the mission’s grounds amid abuse, malnourishment, overworking, 2 and a high death rate.” There are cemetaries on some of the mission grounds where Native Americans were buried.

Woo to you of little faith

No matter how badly behaved an air conditioner salesman is,do they dare send him to Hades?

Mark Twain once made a remark to the effect that if you put three well-fed animals in a cage with each other, they would tend to get along. If you put three people of different religious beliefs in the same cage, they would soon start an argument they would escalate into the next world. :) :(

That pesky reality keeps getting in the way of dogma.

This stanza from Infinite Space by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer might make one think. Might.

Can you believe

God makes you breathe?

Why did he lose

Six million Jews?

https://mojim.com/usy103301x9×13.htm

OMG! Stay outa there!

That IS Florida! It is hot and that is their motto.

I assume the reference to political dogma includes that of the woke movement.

I see this appears to be the most popular cartoon of today. Sadly, and rightly, so.

I’m pretty sure Judaism doesn’t require it. In fact, it’s not that easy to convert to Judaism.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter man-made constructs… no matter how well-intended.

“Because you see, anything good you dont have to force on people–they will steal it.” Dick Gregory. In this quote Mr. Gregory was referring to democracy, it applies nicely to all religions.

Religion is an evil superstition. —Lucretius

Explains how Republicans have turned America into a living hell

Guess I’m safe from winding up in Hell. I don’t force my beliefs on anyone. You have yours, I have mine and if they’re similar, that’s nice. If they’re not, don’t tread on me. Thank you. What religion you are, what gender you think you are, who you’re attracted to is none of my business (Except for child molesters, touch not the kids, and you’ll live. Mess with a kid, and I’ll go all ‘Cask of Amontillado’ on you. That might land me in Hell, but it would be worth it.)

Devils in Humans’ image.

You mean like trans people do?

Ie, heaven is a place on earth, unless you make it otherwise. And so it goes…