Christianity in a nutshell
September 1, 2007
[Art by Jim Huger from Dead To Rights, a parody of Jack T. Chick's tract]
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escapedmentalpatient | September 6, 2007 at 6:01 am
LOL
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Christian | January 22, 2008 at 5:41 pm
that’s just dumb God cannot contradict himself whoever wrote this cartoon has no idea what the bible says about god and salvation from sin
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4runner | February 19, 2008 at 11:09 am
Clever, maybe even funny, but it reveals a bit of a misunderstanding. This cartoon steps into theology, which really isn’t this site’s strong point. However, from what I understand about Christianity is this. God did not change any “rule”, since the Old Testament if you sinned you would have to make a sacrifice of some kind of animal depending on the sin. This was the religion of the Jews/Israelites, while all the gentiles went to…yeah. God wanted to give salvation for all the people of the world, so he sent Jesus. Jesus then became the ultimate sacrifice. The “rule” did not change, a blood sacrifice was needed for atonement of sins.
Note to Christian above. Don’t attack the cartoonist then fail to explain what is wrong about what he’s saying.
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KELSO93 | February 23, 2008 at 2:01 am
THAT IS A BUNCH OF CRAP BECAUSE GOD DIED FOR OUR SINS SO WE COULD HAVE ETERNAL SO BEFORE U GO AROUND MAKING STUPID CARTOONS READ THE BIBLE AND GET YOUR FACTS STRAIT GOD BLESS YOU|!!!!!
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nicknack28 | July 1, 2009 at 5:15 pm
I just now discovered this blog and will spend some time looking over it very soon as I have recently developed a keen interest in Agnosticism (but coming from a religious background am still a theist and don’t believe that is likely to change). When stepping back and outlining when I can believe through simply the use of reason and not applying faith to it yet, I have come to the conclusion that Agnosticism seems the most logical. This has helped me SINCERELY — exploring my beliefs through reason before then exploring my beliefs through faith (that would then have to comply to that reason). So, I’m grateful of this site and hopefully it’ll be encouraging
But anyway, that wasn’t the point of this message. I’ve seen a similar cartoon (which is actually just a thrown together picture) which made me laugh out loud the first time I saw it and this reminded me of it remarkably. I mean no offense to Christians or Christianity in my amusement — I at least thought both were funny.
The other one: http://i40.tinypic.com/552lpl.jpg
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agnostic firebird | July 8, 2009 at 2:52 am
I have been recently struggling with the idea of a god, and to let the cartoonist know, which I am sure he already does and he is just scratching the surface of the literal interpretation of the bible, there is the father, the son (Jesus) and the holy spirit. Beside the point, It is hard for me to completely disregard reason and
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agnostic firebird | July 8, 2009 at 2:55 am
base everything on faith. I cannot just believe in a talking snake and the gathering of millions of species into a single boat/arc/ship. Explanations are very significant to the decision-making process of one’s religion. If anyone could comment below and give me some useful advice or information I would really appreciate it.
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Richard | July 29, 2009 at 4:48 am
The Christians above seriously misunderstand what this cartoonist is getting at. The point he is making is that the atonement implies that God is not all powerful. To say that God/Jesus ‘died for our sins’ implies that there are some ‘cosmic laws’ that even God has to follow (e.g. in order for God to forgive sins God/Jesus must suffer and die). If God is all powerful he could have forgiven sins by just willing it. Stating that God/Jesus died to fulfill scriptures doesn’t help matters either. That implies that God is beholden to the bible which he could have ‘inspired’ however he wanted.
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Isaac | July 31, 2009 at 8:15 am
I’m only posting this here because I left a comment earlier and it contained the statement that I doubted I would ever transition from an agnostic theist to an agnostic atheist. Irony, sometimes, is simply outstanding. Over this single past summer I have done more religious thinking than my whole life combined, deliberately spending hours upon hours of applying reasoning and logic to different aspects of my faith and repeatedly discovering that I needed to carry the reasoning and logic to broader and broader scopes. Whenever I came to one revisionary conclusion about my faith I realized that I actually needed to take an even larger step back and look at an even bigger picture now. It amazes me how many “steps back” a person can make, and particularly in such a short amount of time. I finally had to admit to myself that the only thing truly keeping the “theist” in there instead of “atheist” was the understanding that there are certain orders to the universe that I couldn’t explain the origin of (sounds corny, I know, but we’re looking at big pictures now) — I could not locate any evidence of anything more defined than that. That was the ONLY thing. After that I realized that the unknown “cause” of these orders (in my understanding) certainly wouldn’t resemble any generally accepted definition of a god.
So I guess that made today officially my first day of abandoning the concept of a god (again, as is generally accepted). I wouldn’t argue that the universe and how it is ordered doesn’t have some source, of course, but to me that is more a matter of science than religion.
I merely thought is was funny that my first post — confident in its theistic grounding — was on the first day of this month and so much can change by the last day of that same month. Again, I have to say it is utterly perplexing how much someone’s faith can change in a short amount of time under certain conditions. I don’t want to dissuade anyone else reading this from their faith, but just want to comment on my own surprise at myself. I wish to continue searching, however, for progress can’t be made without it.
Also, I want to apologize if anything in this post sounds cheesy, like the orders of the universe stuff. It all sounds funny if you write it out but it’s less so when you’re actually thinking about it. If I could of thought of a more sophisticated way of wording it (such as less abstractly), I would have.
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Eupraxsophy | August 24, 2009 at 11:42 am
Issac what you are doing now is being objective about our origins
of life and our place in the universe. Your not simply doubting
everything about the universe if it’s not written in some
book or what others might believe. In other words your thinking
for yourself. I think that you will find that it is quite enlightning and that you can now start to know truth. Believe in what you know and not just in what others believe.
I too was once a Christian, but often would have questions
that would not be answered, but rather given excuses. I
would have my doubts as to the validity of the bible and one
day after reading it and thinking about it, it suddenly made sense
to me. I shall base my beliefs on truth and not base my truths
on beleif.