Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 02, 2018

Not a big fan of religion but that doesn’t explain all of history. The desire to acquire wealth and land had much to do with wars.

Change “religion” to “party” and “love” to “power” and you have our current political forum.

And God, pinching the bridge of his nose, mutters, “eefkg idiots!”

Religion Wars I: Opposite Love

Too bad it’s not.

Sadly true.

If the only thing in religious books was love, there would peace. Unfortunately, there are other things in those books.

Actually, it still remains in the present.

I’m a big fan of religion but that doesn’t explain all of history. The desire to acquire wealth and land had much to do with wars.

Um, love kills?

Most religions preach some variation on “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” The problem is that many people don’t care to pay attention, and even if they do, they hate themselves…

Suddenly, the religions that say “My god wants a blood sacrifice, so we’ll be attacking you every few years to get prisoners of war” sound pretty honest, at least.

Rat’s take on any subject needs to be taken with a pinch of salt!

Even if not all it sure is the largest reason now days.

Religion is man’s attempt to quantify God. Can’t be done.

Let’s be fair: all religions have teachings about what happens after you die. So they’re fighting to the death over that…

Religion has produced more strife and death in 2,000 years than all of the wars put together.

Interesting read: “God is Not Great. How Religion Poisons Everything” by Christopher Hitchens.

Funny thing … was less religous wars with the civs that had more gods. Sure, they had gods set for war, but that wasn´t a war in their name just good old conquest.

Always tried to learn from history not explain it…especially when using Rat logic :-o

Because religion is about power, not love.

This cartoon should serve to remind that a single focus, ego centered, closed mind often leads to a closed casket.

And Rat is 100% CORRECT for once!!!

Lot of pontificating here from folks who seem to disdain religion. In any case, the last 100 years has been punctuated by violence, murder, and whatnot perpetrated by atheist communist regimes such as Pol Pot, Stalinism, and the like. This is a good indicator that people will use any reason to justify killing and oppressing others. Religion is an excuse people used before they realized they could be monsters without appealing to the Pentateuch or the Koran.

So little knowledge and understanding both in the strip and in the comments…

and if you call me terrorist I’ll put a bomb on you because I have to prove you wrong

I’m tiring of Pastis, instead of being clever, just tweaking a hot issue with some trite or simplistic “commentary.” It appears, however, that I may be the only one.

Not even close, Pig

My sky god is bigger than your sky god.

Oolon Colluphid , the author of the “trilogy of philosophical blockbusters” entitled Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway?. Explained it nicely.

“Northern Conservative† Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.” ……

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/sep/29/comedy.religion

Religion conquers all.

Well we’ll all find out in the end won’t we

Atheists are no different from religious people. They so no God, they say there is a God, and they fight over it. Atheism is just like another religion. And if you really want to go there, most religious-based atrocities in the past 150 years in the US were done by Atheists.

Jesus commanded the disciples to make other disciples. He did not command them to do it by force. Islam, on the other hand:

“Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” Sura 9:29

My father was fond of saying that religion was responsible for so many wars. I thought he was too cynical but as I’ve gotten old myself I have come to realize just how right he was. Sorry Dad!

Religion is only as good as the person practicing it. Don’t blame religion for the jerks, bullies, and powermongers who use it as an excuse for being evil. Most religions also have good people out doing good things. Right now, although most people have forgotten it happened, we still have various religious organizations on the ground where Florence and Michael destroyed lives. A tornado destroyed a chunk of my town in the spring, and the local churches are still holding fundraisers to help those affected.

Both appear to be saying the same words, but each has a different meaning for who qualifies as a fellow man deserving of brotherly love.

The problem isn’t with the religions, it’s with the people. People twist and corrupt anything we touch. Look at our laws and politics. Heck look at what we’ve done to our planet.

…and so it goes, on and on, ’til we reach Armageddon.Until that comes, vote for Peace with Honor!

Wrong premise.

Emo Phillips had a great bit about this back in the 80’s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANNX_XiuA78

I consider my relationship with God to be a private matter between Me and Her.

Almost no religions actually have “love” as a central concept. Most emphasize the control gods have over everything and a few emphasize personal enlightenment. I’d argue it is only Christianity that actually enshrines “love” at its center, except that I don’t know about every other religion.

Having a form of Godliness, but they deny the Power thereof. JS-H:19

“All of history explained.” Not quite. The Egyptians, Romans, Vikings, Huns, Mongols, etc., were all about conquering, not converting. And the 20th century Marxist-Communist regimes didn’t want anyone believing in ANY religion, and we see how THAT turned out…

Oh God, do I wish…

Kind of over-simplified. But not much.

(BTW, my Religion of Love is THE ONE, you scummy unbelievers!)

If a religion is the source of contention, the it would be better to be of no religion.

~Baha’u’llah, founder of the Baha’i Faith.

If you are having a crisis in faith, go to the nearest church, or whatever, and have that beaten down. It is your critical thinking kicking in.

So sad, and so true.

In fact, there are quite few religions that are ”all about love for my fellow man”. It isn’t even the main tenet of Christianity, even though it is a general principle of the Christian ETHIC. Little wonder that people can wage war using religion as a cover.

um, that’s hypocritical.

In truth, only about two million people were killed throughout history in religious wars. Most people were killed because of Fascism (50 million) and Communism (100 million). Democratically free nations do not wage war on each other.

Yeah…good thing it’s all in the past…..

I love it when this comic shows the truth

I have the feeling just about every founder of a major religion is looking down on us and shaking their head in frustration.

I am reminded of this amazing video: https://youtu.be/-evIyrrjTTY

“Imagine there’s no heaven

It’s easy if you try.

No hades below us

Above us only sky"