Berkeley Mews by Ben Zaehringer for January 29, 2024

You call that omnipotent? Harumph.

Today’s strip is not for the screamish.

“I tried, but it turns out you can’t take them with you.”

Ben doesn’t believe in a compassionate, forgiving God. Makes me wonder what religion God is.

There’s hell to pay for everyone.

As a person who was traumatized in youth by buying into the notion of eternal punishment, and trying to make it gel with the notion of on all loving God, this comic so captures the absolute mind f of that doctrine. Yet your comment suggests people in heaven would be bothered by the screams of those there, whereas according to theologians like Aquinas in this quote that strikes me as one of the most twisted things I have ever read, it would make them more appreciative: “In order that the happiness of the saints may be more delightful to them and that they may render more copious thanks to God for it, they are allowed to see perfectly the sufferings of the -d-mn-ed. . .So that they may be urged the more to praise God. . .The saints in heaven know distinctly all that happens. . .to those in the inferno.”!!!

God didn’t think that setup all the way through. He planned for the fire-retardant building materials but not soundproofing. Back to architecture school with Him!

Goes with the old joke about God threatening to sue the Devil. The devil replies “sure you are, and where are you going to find a lawyer”.

Satan looks like a cat, figures…

Heaven is the apartment next to hell? Who owns the building? How many apartments? Do they have an amenity center?

So many things wrong with the eschatology in this. Just rescind the punishment order, and while you’re at it, revoke everything that came out of the Council of Trent.

The God of safe-spaces not to be confused with the God of Rightous Vengeance.