Thank god goodness Watterson denied this asshat. It's a cartoon strip. That's all. Sheesh.

What a bunch of losers. Next thing you know, they'll be telling us that Family Circus is secretly religious.

oldebayer: What a bunch of losers. Next thing you know, they'll be telling us that Family Circus is secretly religious.

Ha! ha! Or that Archie was a fundie!

HM - making up stories about yourself living another life where you're perfect and everything is good, talking to imaginary friends, lying to authority to get out of responsibility, generally being annoying...

Nope. Can't see how that would relate to Christianity at all.

And Jesus said unto them; Would you eat Christ flesh and blood, would you eat it in a flood? Would you eat it over there, would you eat it anywhere?

Damn you, Pepperidge Farm!!!

Well, I suppose Calvin would approve ...

Keep your farking religious and political interpretations out of Watterson's perfection.

This reminds me of the old saying. When all you have are a hammer and nails, the whole world starts to look like Christ's wrists.

So, when Garfield got lasagna from Jon that was actually the body of Christ?

Let's see. Robert Short is a minister and sees religious messages in everything. Hmmm!

The Lorax is a Christian tale? Supply side Jesus would not approve!

Woohoo, Calvin & Hobbes thread!



/shamelessly hotlinked

Run-on sentence Subby.

/Grammar Nazi here.

I seem to remember a post in a thread recently about how terrible it is that people would make fun of the Muslim faith, and some guy was saying that if they were poking fun at the Christian faith, there would be no uproar.

If anyone can find that thread and post it here, I would sure appreciate it.

best response ever, from this thread:


Hollie Maea:

Is this the thread where all the evangelical atheists show up and biatch and moan about how the list is missing various religious texts? Look, we get it: your mom made you go to sunday school when you were a kid and you hated it. Get over it.

can I call bullshiat?

Any decal/sticker of Calvin pissing on/praying to anything is a ripoff and an abomination.

FarkingSean: I seem to remember a post in a thread recently about how terrible it is that people would make fun of the Muslim faith, and some guy was saying that if they were poking fun at the Christian faith, there would be no uproar.

If anyone can find that thread and post it here, I would sure appreciate it.

Will add to this - I'm not suggesting there should be an uproar. Most Christians that I know easily dismiss those who make fun of Christianity and don't give them a second thought. I just find the hypocrisy to be telling.

i cant believe something like that was put in my hometown newspaper. The Morning Call is a very good newspaper believe it or not. I have lost so much respect for them for putting that crap in there.

I Said: Keep your farking religious and political interpretations out of Watterson's perfection.

Yeah, no one should ever be allowed to interpret art.

On the other hand, the comic "B.C." was blatantly Christian without apology. I typed an interview with Johnny Hart years ago. Cool old guy, but hardcore Christian, yeah.

Stinky McButt: Thank god goodness Watterson denied this asshat. It's a cartoon strip. That's all. Sheesh.

In fact several Calvin and Hobbes strips openly question the basis of most religions.

I_Approve_Of_This_Message: Any decal/sticker of Calvin pissing on/praying to anything is a ripoff and an abomination.

Yeah, pretty much. Calvin pissing on things is moronic, but him kneeling before a crucifix is farking retarded (no offense to retards). Calvin struck me as a character without religion, not a pious whippersnapper.

You have to admit that apparently naming a character after one of the most noteworthy Christan theologians is going to draw some religious speculation. Especially when paired with a contemporary philosopher to this theologian, to clarify the reference.

Kind of like if Bart Simpson were Barth Simpson, with a silent H, and he named his skateboard after Wittgenstein.

Anyone ever seen the conspiracy theory that the original Star Trek was all about Catholicism? It's a hoot. (Do your own search. I'm too busy/lazy!) "James Tiberius Kirk": "James," an apostle. "Tiberius," a Roman ruler. "Kirk," church.

There's even more to it. It's a wacky theory. Some people are just lost in the crazies!

A lot of Anti-Christian scheisse going on within Fark lately.

oldebayer: What a bunch of losers. Next thing you know, they'll be telling us that Family Circus is secretly religious.

Maybe an apostate or heretical religion, what with all the grandpa ghosts and Not Me spirits. Bill Keane is a necromancer.

hankhorsey: Ha! ha! Or that Archie was a fundie!


You sure about that?

I always thought 'Third Roar Theory' would be a good name for a band.

How did Calvin spread the loving values of Christianity? Was that when he peed on Chevy, Ford or Dodge?

dillenger69 [TotalFark] Quote 2008-05-18 12:32:40 AM
And Jesus said unto them; Would you eat Christ flesh and blood, would you eat it in a flood? Would you eat it over there, would you eat it anywhere?

'k ~ this made me happy I decided to peek in on my way to bed...

that1guy77: A lot of Anti-Christian scheisse going on within Fark lately.

If Christians (and I am one) hadn't historically:

1. Tried to force others to be Christians,
2. Tried to force those who refused to be Christians to at least ACT like Chrsitians and follow their book's precepts, and
3. Then had major visible members of their group be giant farking hypocrites...

Maybe there wouldn't be so much anti-Christian bias, eh?

I think we've kind of earned it.

/recovered fundie

phlegmmo:
How did Calvin spread the loving values of Christianity? Was that when he peed on Chevy, Ford or Dodge?

Oh, wait, I just got it! It was all of them. The Holy Trinity!

You could probably find deep philosophical meaning in the list of ingredients for your corn flakes if you start with your conclusions and work backwards like this turd does.

Reminds me of an English professor I had. To her EVERY piece of English fiction could best be interpreted through a Freudian lens. By the end of the semester were were literally groaning when ever she started to interpret. No character ever used a gun in anything other than a phallic context. Quite maddening.

Short ... from his home in Little Rock, Ark.


"Well Hell, there's your problem right there."


/A fart is noninterpetive

that1guy77: A lot of Anti-Christian scheisse going on within Fark lately.

Yeah, its funny how no one else gets picked on on Fark. What a weird week.

Please note that the cartoon child peeing is NOT Calvin...it is an imitation. I don't remember why Watterson didn't try to stop it but he had his reasons.

bessyglass: Please note that the cartoon child peeing is NOT Calvin...it is an imitation. I don't remember why Watterson didn't try to stop it but he had his reasons.

Maybe he drives a Volvo.

oldebayer: What a bunch of losers. Next thing you know, they'll be telling us that Family Circus is secretly religious.


LOL'd
I came in here to make a Family Circus wisecrack but yours was better.

bessyglass: Please note that the cartoon child peeing is NOT Calvin...it is an imitation.

Imitation is the sincerest form of plagiarism.

Delawheredad: No character ever used a gun in anything other than a phallic context.

QFT

that1guy77: A lot of Anti-Christian scheisse going on within Fark lately.

Always has been, and it's as it should be. The criticism is well deserved.

Christian values -- and I don't mean this in the current Republican sense, but rather as religiously-influence historical trends in Western Culture since the middle ages -- are rather taken for granted in the West, much as fish take water for granted.

Among them -- the weakest may turn out to be the greatest, better to be a good man than a powerful, turn the other cheek, do onto others, etc. (Are these values promoted in Islam and Judaism? Of course, because Christianity has two main ideological roots -- Judaism and Hellenicism.)

So it's not surprising that a minister might find Christian teachings in the works of artists who explored moral situations (Seuss and Watterson).

Were they deliberately Christian? I very much doubt it in the case of Watterson, and certainly not in the case of Seuss (a Jew - although, as I noted above, these same values are promoted in Judaism, which originated them in the West).

No, what the minister is calling "Christian" values are just general Western notions of morality, although they have their origins in religion.

/I am now ready for about 1000 flames, because I referred to religion in a vaguely positive way.

I am so sick of these lying assholes trying to co-opt everything into their own religion.

bessyglass: Please note that the cartoon child peeing is NOT Calvin...it is an imitation. I don't remember why Watterson didn't try to stop it but he had his reasons.

I read an interview with him once where he said it just wasn't possible to go after everyone using the image. I think it was on The Onion's AV Club, but I'm not sure.

that1guy77: A lot of Anti-Christian scheisse going on within Fark lately.

Can't vouch for the rest of Fark, but I like to consider myself an equal opportunity discriminator.