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1. 3 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   @Decepticomic yep, fully agree.

2. about 1 month ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   “the Universe makes more sense with God!” Only when a simple lie is easier to understand than a complex (and imperfect) truth. Which is quite often. Fortunately, in the last 1000 years, the job of scientist has been shaping up, across several traditions. And scientists tend to be suspicious of things that make sense only because a law (god, any god) says it does. When they add courage to and inquisitive mind (which is not often) we may have explanations that make sense (even if complicated) and are true (within our realm of cognitive range).

3. 4 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   None running for president, none sitting in the Senate or House, none appearing regularly in mainstream tv. On the other direction, we do not need to go far right to learn about how “how the media, big tech, Democrats, etc seized our great victory in the 2020 elections”.

4. 4 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I’m sorry, I didn’t get it… who in the US far left is as toxic as the regular facers of the mainstream right? Including those on the presidential ticket?

5. 4 months ago on Sarah's Scribbles

   Brilliant – never thought of the connection! Vampires must be invited in, cats want us to keep doors open for them… good luck with the research.

6. 5 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Guns don’t kill people… gun culture does. In other words, the apparently pervasive ideas (at least in the US) that each individual must be armed to their ears to defend their dignity, honor or propriety, or to defend family and shared values, that they should be prepared to shoot their way out of (or into) any problem. This is the issue to address – stop the wild frontier mentality that it is every gun-holding individual for themself and their kids in school will not make the association: “I have a problem, therefore I need to shoot someone”.And yes, obviously, restricting access to guns (type and form of buying) is a necessary step in this change of mentality.

7. 6 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   It is not ok to be disrespectful, I agree.

   And that should work in both directions. It is not ok to use “atheist” as an insult or a certificate of moral inadequacy, for instance.

   It thus must be ok for an atheist to tell a religious person: “I think you should give up religion for W and X reasons”. Because believers of proselyte religions do find it reasonable to tell me that I should convert for their Y and Z reasons.

8. 6 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Could be, but it IS written in the books…BibleMatthew 28:19: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,”Matthew 28:20: “teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”Quran(16:125) (O Prophet), call to the way of your Lord with wisdom and goodly exhortation, and reason with them in the best manner possible. Surely your Lord knows best who has strayed away from His path, and He also knows well those who are guided to the Right Way.

9. 6 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Yep, I agree – I would say they must, indeed. Two of the “Book’s religions” are inherently proselyte.

10. 7 months ago on Junk Drawer

    I don’t know… there was no joke in the first place so it could not be killed. It is more of a unfortunate case of a joke born cold dead. Bottom line, we have to improve our general culture before reading the comics…