Peanuts by Charles Schulz for October 22, 2013

She sounds like a voter.

She’ll LOVE Obamacare then!!!!

Keepin’ the faith PP!

Don’t mock Linus’s religious beliefs…

So Peppermint Patty believes in aliens too.

Who’s coloring these strips? Monochrome can work very effectively, but not in sudden arbitrary switches like Linus in the last panel. There’s no reason for him to be solid red when the rest of the panel is in full color.

Linus turns red in the last panel.

How does that make sense?

So much for Linus’ first apostle… don’t figure he’s gonna let her stay in the church after that speech.

Although you’re technically correct, I feel you’re being much too harsh and lacking in empathy. Religion is passed on to defenseless children whose primary and crucial goal is to gain their parents love and approval and avoid rejection. When bible/koran fantasy stories are drummed into them and threats of going to hell are used to keep them in line, what choice do they have but to internalize these stories which are then passed along to their children? Even as they grow up and stop believing in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, they are compelled to have “faith” and do what they need to do to keep the approval of their families, lest they lose their support systems. Close friends of mine left the Mormon church and have lost their family support system and are threatened with hell by their ex-“friends” and family, and they’re successful adults, not 8 year olds totally dependent on their parents. It’s not so easy and I feel that more can be accomplished to wake these folks who live in a regressed state of childhood, still believing in absurd myths like virgin birth, a woman springing fully grown from the side of a man or being turned into a pillar of salt by having empathy for what their childhoods were like. We have a supreme court justice who believes that satan is a real person, but looking at him all I see is a little boy saying; see mommy, I’m a good boy, I’ve done what you wanted me to do so please love me. Do you see what I’m saying here?

SHE JUST PERFECTLY DESCRIBED ALL RELIGION.

Reich-wing? Didn’t sound like a leftist to me!

Occam’s Razor: The simpler an explanation is, the more likely it is to be true.

Murphy’s Blunt Instrument: The more convoluted and conspiritual an explanation is, the more likely it is to be believed.

Actually, Occam’s razor is not that. According to Wikipedia, it says “among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected.” Similar, but distinct. It also has a mathematical expression. Oh, and Republicans suck.

Hopefully Peppermint Patty will make more of an appearance.

I’m sick of seeing Lucy’s lemon face.

LOL xxx

@legaleagle48

Um. Nope. Don’t read it then.

Leave it to a bunch of ideologues to ruin a Peanuts comic strip. Why don’t you guys take your pissing match to FNC and MSNBC and leave the rest of us the hell alone?

Don’t feel TOO bad, Linus; even the greatest prophets in history have had THEIR share of off-days!

How on earth does your political ranting fit in with a forty year old Peanuts strip?

another proud vote for Obama

And there’s the famous backflip.

To whom it may concern: There was no coloring back in the day, it was all intended to be black and white. Some local papers colored the dailies themselves.#Also, I don’t know who’s doing the coloring, but it doesn’t match the originals either, some of which have been reprinted in color. (Probably the biggest offense is the prototype-Woodstock, colored blue.)

And yet you are here…gracing us with your comments. That has to provide evidence that there is a God and that to some degree, He has a sense of humor.