by Matthew Cobb
Why do all those atheists argue about whether there is a God? Sure there is, and he’s even got a blog to prove it. I just hope you guys will be more sensible in your comments than the folk over at God’sBlog…
God’s blog (sorry, website)
August 2, 2011 • 1:48 pm
That actually raises a pretty serious question.
Why doesn’t Jesus / YHWH / Allah / Krishna / etc. have an Internet presence?
Alternatively: do any of them read what’s on the innertubes? If so, what’s the IP address of their last hop server?
Cheers,
b&
Ben, I refute you thus – taken from Jesus and Mo themselves:
“Is that really Jesus?
Yes, that is really Jesus. I don’t know how he does it, but he always finds time in his busy schedule to appear in the comic whenever someone loads a J&M page in their browser.”
Well, Satan was waiting for IPv6 so he could have 0666:0666:0666:0666:: …
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Well, for what it’s worth, 6.6.6 belongs to USAISC at Ft. Huachuca, though it neither has an in-addr.arpa entry nor responds to pings.
It does trace as far as cpe.ypg.dren.net, though, so clearly there’s some sort of a route for it….
Cheers,
b&
That’s because Ft. Huachuca is hell..
I take it you haven’t been to Texas.
Slightly more seriously, I haven’t been on the military base itself, but the area around it is spectacular.
ICMP is disallowed on the netherworld firewall.
He’ll have to re-apply
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11134/beasts-real-mark-devalued-to-616
Reminds me of that Far Side cartoon with the miniature trio inside the dashboard radio….
b&
To paraphrase the great James T. Kirk,
“What does God need with a website?”
“when god speaks, the listener is delusional”
Santa Claus has an official Postal Code. H0H 0H0.
Does that make him more real than those other pretenders?
I think that only works in Canada…
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Wait a few months and try it. Works anywhere in the world and you probably don’t need to specify Canada, though that’s where it will be answered. Just send it to:
Santa Claus
North Pole
Canada
H0H 0H0
and you’ll get a nice reply, which is a far more concrete result than anyone has ever gotten by praying.
Santa Claus may live at the North Pole but Father Christmas lives in Greenland. Or Lapland. Or both.
That is hilarious!
The actual post is painfully unfunny.
The comments section is all sorts of amazing.
The “comments section” is part of the actual post.
Er, yes, as JS1685 says, it’s a single, unified comedy piece, all written by the same guy.
“The lemon tree: very pretty. The lemon flower: sweet. But the fruit of the poor lemon? Impossible to eat. Is this a bug or a feature?”
LOL! All of them!
“Putting boobs on the woman is sexist.”
As Bart Simpson once said, “that’s funny for so many reasons…”
Fun! And better than last week’s Pope’s tweets: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2011/07/25/110725sh_shouts_rudnick
(Apologies if that was already posted. I’ve been offline & have missed a lot.)
Was beginning to wonder! Actually a hoilday from the web is no bad thing! welcome back.
Hey, thanks! It’s nice to be missed. 🙂
I hope whatever-it-was that kept you away wasn’t anything too traumatic…? Or, at least, hopefully not more traumatic than being denied the pleasure of our company….
b&
I thought this had all been covered
http://www.400monkeys.com/God/
Best website EVER!
How is it that those who believe in the fantasy of deity can think so little of themselves? It is patently obvious to me that the morality i exhibit on a daily basis, in all my dealings with humanity and other animals, is due to my innate altruism, and not because i feel obliged to placate the perceived whims of some fictitious entity.
I loved this– ‘stole it for my facebook. Thanks for posting, Matthew!
Professor Coyne,
Really appreciated your article in USA today (http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-07-31-atheism-morality-evolution-religion_n.htm).
It was a helpful stop to an argument I had been dragged into, as a result of an Epicurus quote I used. You slammed that door!
Thanks.
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
~Epicurus
It’s worth noting that Epicurus’s original words are long since lost to history, and there’s even some doubt as to whether or not he was actually the first to put that riddle to words. And, one thing we can be certain of is that it wouldn’t have been about “God,” for he wrote it centuries before the Caesars at a time when even the Jews were still polytheistic. At the least, rather than put in terms of a particular deity of a particular pantheon, it would have been expressed in a generic form.
And, indeed, the generic form is that much stronger. Omnipotence is hardly necessary to fight evil, after all. All one has to do to invalidate claims of a benevolent caretaker is to find a single example of something unquestionably within the caretaker’s power to influence.
Jesus, for example, allegedly took the time to ensure that one of the t-beams in the rubble of the World Trade Center fell in a manner reminiscent of the torture device used for his own execution, but he did nothing to alter the paths of the jetliners or even cushion the falls of the people who were tumbling alongside the t-beam. Thus, if one accepts the premise that Jesus was responsible for the t-beam cross, one must also accept that Jesus is a motherfucking sonofabitch who cares more about erecting monuments glorifying his own death than saving innocent bystanders.
Cheers,
b&