Even when I was a kid I wondered why Jesus was always depicted as if he were from Scandinavia or Germany.
From Don Asmussen’s comic Bad Reporter:
h/t: jsp
Jesus @ #wrongskin
June 17, 2015 • 4:30 pm
Category: comics
Monday humor: Felidae
June 1, 2015 • 7:20 am
Shall we start off the week with some felid humor? Yes, why not.
First, a tw**t about the World’s Worst Idea:
And here’s yesterday’s Get Fuzzy, featuring Bucky, a cat who is a complete, self-centered jerk (and of course in that way represents all cats). Bucky’s staff consists of Rob, the human, and the long-suffering Satchel, a d*g:
h/t: jsp, Grania
A trickster God
May 11, 2015 • 7:00 am
When reader Ben Goren sent me the latest strip from Wiley Miller’s Non Sequitur, he asked me if Miller had received an advance copy of my book. And indeed, I’ve used the “moving stars into words” trope before as one of the things that could help convince me that there was indeed a god. (Some anti-theist readers would reject this as convincing evidence, saying that it could be a trick by space aliens.)
Unfortunately, I wasn’t so clever as to invent this form of “evidence”. As far as I know, it first appears in Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World as one of the things that God could have done to convince us of his existence (I think Sagan hypothesized God spelling out “I am that I am in Hebrew”). If you reread that book, or especially The Varieties of Scientific Experience, you’ll find that Sagan was far more of a “strident” atheist than people recall.
But I digress; here is Miller’s cartoon, and it’s a good one:
One of Them: Part IV
April 30, 2015 • 6:38 am
Wiley Miller continues his series on America’s Hate Laws at Non Sequitur. (Why does that old dude have a cat on his shoulder?)
Reader “Micky pearce” (who won’t be seen here in the future) tried to comment on this post, demonstrating precisely the kind of religiously-inspired bigotry shown in the strip:
This is unfair freind. Who wrote that. Not accurate complete picture. pro-gay businesses have rejected Christian approaches too. If homosexuals are wicked enough to approach and target Christian businesses instead of the hundreds of others who would happily fulfil their requirements, seeking trouble and the imposition of their agenda upon others, who really is the uncharitable and divisive party at work here. Bigotry works in all spheres, including the refusal to accept someones Christian position.
Is there a correlation between conservative religiosity and the inability to write and spell?
h/t: Linda Grilli
Merry Easter Day Greetings!
April 5, 2015 • 5:28 am
by Matthew Cobb
This Easter cartoon by Stephen Collins appeared in The Guardian’s Weekend magazine (click through *twice* so you can read it without it being obscured by the book covers on the right, or if that doesn’t work go here).
Spotted yesterday
March 10, 2015 • 6:40 am
This car was outside my building yesterday. If you don’t understand the plate, you didn’t watch American cartoons as a kid:
Evolution funnies
February 8, 2015 • 2:10 pm
The latest Herman strip, drawn by Jim Unger, shows us one way of accommodationism. And it comes perilously close to those theistic evolutionists—including both scientists and creationists—who accept evolution but say that God either set up the process so that it would be guaranteed to produce Homo sapiens (the view of Simon Conway Morris, whose theory we discussed earlier today), or tweaked evolution from time to time to ensure that we’d appear.
And over at The Onion, there’s a grim report on natural selection (click on screenshot below to see the piece):
An excerpt:
EARTH—In a seemingly unstoppable cycle of carnage that has become tragically commonplace throughout the biosphere, sources confirmed this morning that natural selection has killed an estimated 38 quadrillion organisms in its bloodiest day yet.
Numerous reports from biomes on all seven continents revealed that over the past 24 hours, the ruthless biological phenomenon had ended the lives of a record 360 trillion animals and 908 trillion plants, along with 36.7 quadrillion fungi, protists, and bacteria.
“What we’re seeing here is the work of a hardened, practiced killer,” said Yale University evolutionary biologist Richard Prum, describing the brutal process through which a massive number of victims—among them thousands of starfish, countless patches of moss, and entire colonies of intestinal protozoa—were massacred with little to no warning. “These weak and helpless organisms, all of which appeared to have had no way to defend themselves against this latest wave of violence, were wiped out in cold blood.”
“It is painfully clear this slaughter was perpetrated by a force that holds zero regard for the value of life,” Prum added . . .
What’s curious is that there really is an evolutionary biologist at Yale named Richard Prum. I wonder if he really said that stuff (in jest, of course). They also quote a “University of Calcutta zoologist” who appears to be fictitious. Jeez—they’re making stuff up!
h/t: Steve