The latest Jesus and Mo strip, called “cruelty”, came with the note, “Those poor boys. Has she no feelings?”
The barmaid stymies the boys with her humility, for neither of them could ever echo her sentiments.
Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ imperfection
December 3, 2025 • 9:45 am
If a god creates an imperfect thing, that god is imperfect as well. Theists are stuck with that whether they like it or not.
The problem is that religion can make stuff up. And can define perfection appropriately 🙂
A perfect being can create imperfect beings. That some humans are imperfect does not preclude their creator from being perfect. God is good in every aspect, and infinitely so 🙂
Why would an entity that is capable of creating the entire universe be per definition good? Isn’t it more probable that such a being would have the personality of, for example, Donald Trump?
Nor would this entity need to be omniscient, or even self-aware.
Most religions have a Trickster god. Maybe we’re more of a joke than we realise.
+1 🙂
What is the theistic response to this?
If God is perfect, why would he need to alter that perfect reality that didn’t include a Universe and create anything? To make it…more perfect?
And even if you could take a perfect thing and make it more perfect, why is the Universe clearly flawed, as evil exists? “Free will” doesn’t get you out of this, because God could have just created beings that have free will but always do the right thing (like Angels apparently). Or if this was not possible, then don’t bother creating the Universe in the first place. God and his reality was obviously perfect without it before!
Nonsense is as nonsense does.
Nobody’s perfect. But who wants to be nobody?
Nobody’s perfect, and that’s why there is only one Empty Set.
But there are perfect numbers (6, 28, …), perfect Rob Roys, perfect idiots, etc. The gods’ perfections are all around us.
I do like the “perfect numbers”.
Truth be told, a lot of the gods’ perfections do kinda suck; maybe we’re too imperfect to appreciate them.
Maybe the notion of perfection is itself fundamentally imperfect.
A bit too meta for me to handle this early in the day. Sort of like asking if a perfect set contains itself (otherwise it wouldn’t be perfectly perfect¹).
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¹ Take that, Saint Anselm of Canterbury (ABoC).
“Nobody’s perfect!” also the closing line of “Some Like it Hot”.
Yes! And that was a lovely ending.
I laugh at the trope often used by the religiously-stricken that atheists are arrogant. Coming from a person who thinks the omni-everything-creator of the universe made them special, loves them infinitely, knows how many hairs are on their head, and grants them everlasting life, whilst those not sharing their faith burn eternally in hell. Talk about arrogance. And think of the arrogance of a suicide bomber.
LOL! Perfect 👌 is hitting the nail on the head!
Funny as usual!
I often wonder who writes these? They’re excellent.
Says something that whoever he is (I’m presuming male….) can’t put his name to it – or he’d have his life deranged and enjoy a beheading. That says something I think.
Critics of… various religions… (and our editors) have to consider this.
D.A.
NYC
Male. I saw him interviewed on television years ago. Back to the camera, but definitely male.
I wish I was as deeply, thoughtfully clever as the creator of this strip. Maybe in my next life. 😉