The "Religious" Right and Fox Noise summed up in one cartoon

[madinmaryland]

[NastyRiffraff]

1. Absolutely right!

I get so tired of the religious right's victimhood. They're even more whiney this time of year. Merry War on Christmas!

[MarianJack]

2. Sounds about right!

K & R & Tweeted!

PEACE!

[KansDem]

3. The "Religious Right"...

...always seem to be "cross" about something.

[awoke_in_2003]

4. I question the sanity...

of anyone who thinks that the babble is more than a shoddy work of fiction- hell, it is worse than reading L Ron Hubbard sci-fi.

[1awake]

6. Then question mine I guess.

Though I think Fox is disgusting, and most people on the right who claim to be Christians are severely lacking in the knowledge department... yea, I believe in the bible. I'm just not sure I believe in a large number of people who claim the same then act like they have marching orders from the other guy.

[stopbush]

10. We must be reading a different book.

There's nothing particularly nice about the "good guys" in the Bible, either.

[1awake]

17. Maybe we are, or maybe it's just our take on it. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Which parts do you believe and which parts do you not believe?

One might similarly ask which parts you follow and which parts you disregard.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. I like to throw the "Tower Of Babel" into the mix myself....

The myth that we all used to speak the same language and then we built a tall building and God thought it was arrogant so he cursed us with different languages so we couldn't understand each other.

If they ask what language was the original, shrug and say, "It's all Greek to me."

Face it, that's up there with Paul Bunyan.

[Feral Child]

27. That myth

is the basis for denial of the lunar landing. If men landed on the moon w/o being smitten, how tall must Babel have been to threaten Yahweh's abode?

Some may deflect that criticism by claiming Babel was "metaphor", but in actuality it was absolutely and literally believed by primitive, uneducated and terrified people. And still is.

That's Christian faith; the level of individual credulity is just relative. In modern times, the marvels of the natural world are less mystifying, and, to the adult mind, the cycle of life and death and other "mysteries" of the ancient world are not matters to be feared.

[1awake]

19. I disregard none of it,

but I also look at it in several varying ways. Parts of it as cultural, historical, metaphor, and others directly pertaining to me. Like the other 80+% of the global population who believe in something for whatever reason, I have my reasons to. I respect your right to believe whatever you want, even if that is to believe in nothing at all. I do not think less of you either way.

[chervilant]

23. Now, see, therein lies the rub:

I do not think less of you either way.

Doesn't the "good book" adjure followers to "judge not"? I find this one of the biggest challenges for the xtians who "believe" the bible is something more than a collection of historical myths drawn from a rich oral tradition and codified by a wealthy elite to control the masses.

Elaine Pagels, Barbara Walker, and Joseph Campbell helped me understand the bible as an historical document for the pernicious xtian mythology.

[Feral Child]

26. Well, since you put it out there....

You believe in an anthology of conflicting myths of dubious provenance.
You accept the validity of these myths, preposterous as they are, on "faith" alone.

"Faith" is just a nicer word for "emotional need". To paraphrase an old drug canard, "Faith is for those that can't handle reality".

1, you may be a really nice person and I'd generally not choose to offend you, but you need to keep that at home, or at the "social club" you attend. Bring it out in public, then expect to be challenged.

[jeff47]

8. I just like what L. Ron was able to pull off

He wrote a book about a failed writer who created his own religion. It sold about as badly as all his other SciFi books.

Then he created his own religion....

[99Forever]

5. Religion, in a nutshell.

Thanks.

[WillyT]

7. HUGE K & R !!!

[SoapBox]

9. Billboard!

[Rozlee]

11. I worked at a VA Hospital in WV once.

Everyday, our work e-mails would be flooded with scriptures of the day and people would contribute religious articles. On government computers! I would grit my teeth because I didn't want to be the one that got singled out for complaining, but I came close. This one nurse got told to put away her rune necklace because it made other personnel "uncomfortable." Other personnel walked around with their crosses around their necks all day and "Smile If You Love Jesus" buttons on their scrubs! I told her to file a religious discrimination complaint, but she said that she was afraid to since people considered her a devil worshipper as it was. I wish my entire family didn't live in Texas and WV. I'd love to move away from the Bible Belt.

[SheilaT]

16. I'd like to suggest that it's not the worst thing in the world to live

a distance from your family. You could move somewhere you'd rather be. Perhaps family members would follow you, you never know.

[1awake]

20. I lived in WV for many years,

so I can relate to the circumstance having witnessed similar situations.

[mwb970]

30. I think that many people WILL simply move away.

I anticipate a coming wave of migration from backwards red states to progressive blue states as individuals and families see how much better life is for people living just a few miles away across the state line. The dead-enders who stay behind deserve what they get. If "conservative values" are so great, why are the basket-case states where they are in full effect such nightmares for the people who live there?

[hue]

12. This is the way they spin it!! K&R!!

[Enthusiast]

15. Accuracy in cartoon reporting.

You know, now that we have to rely on cartoons and comedians for our cutting journalism.

[A HERETIC I AM]

18. Basically this idea;

[adavid]

21. The religions of...

ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome were BELIEVED some 4 thousand years ago as, religions.
Today, those religions are considered myth and legend.
It is my opinion that history will repeat itself, and in a couple thousand years, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and others will also become legend and myth as the others have.

[MisterP]

32. Zoroastria--D'OH!

[toby jo]

22. Righties in general think this way.

I try to tell em at work that folks are not 'stealing' their rights. That if you take people's legitimacy from them in the first place, in order to empower yourself, that all they are doing is demanding it back.

Then you gotta sit back and wait for them to figure out that you just called them a thief by virtue of their actions. Selfish pricks.

[B Calm]

24. When will people realize religion is made up bullshit?

[dchill]

29. The correct answer to your question...

Never and always.

[Ikonoklast]

31. When the people pushing it cannot control others by using it.

As soon as religion is no longer useful to create wealth or power for those peddling it, the myths die.


See anyone sacrifice to Zeus lately?

[napkinz]

25. K&R

nt

[dchill]

28. Wow!

Nutshell.