image
Transcription:
“The opposable thumb is an amazing product of millions of years of evolu…”—CLICK! Change the channel!
Thank you God… for the gift of the opposable thumb!
87 comments
Why does it say Romans 1 in the bottom right corner? Wasn't this Answer in Genesis?
It's all a question of interpretations, really. If God created the Earth, then Earth day is also a celebration of Him.
This is a slow-burning stupid. The kind of stupid that smoulders for years beneath the surface, and suddenly explodes forth like a swarm of teabaggers, birthers, and Palin worshippers.
Oh, start worrying about *real* problems, like Thursday being named after Thor, and Friday after Freia.
I've checked several 'Christian cartoon' sites and found few actual jokes. They use cartoons only to preach and humour just doesn't fit into the message. Family Circus and BC seemed to be the only ones that ever pulled it off (to achieve 'cute' at least)
A common Christian cartoon theme ends with "you forgot about God" or "Jesus is the answer" This message is their end agenda at all times. Humour is never the goal, slander and misrepresentation of others is also common.
It's no wonder the religious rights like Fox news so much, their on camera people will bring God into any conversation they can wedge it into.
Earth Day is supposed to be about taking care of the planet, i.e., our environment, not worship of the planet as a deity, moron.
Yes, because a day devoted to understanding our impact on our only home planet, and giving some thought on how to minimize the destruction of our environment, is totally about Gaia worship.
It couldn't be simply about educating ourselves and others about our environment.
Really? Not everyone who honors Earth Day is Pagan, Wiccan, and/or a hardcore envornmentalist, but I guess for you if it doesn't mention Jesus, it must be evil.
Ugh....okay, it's NOT wrong to want to protect the environment. That's NOT a bad thing. And I'm pretty sure that environmentalists aren't some cult that "eliminates all references to God." Seriously. We're not all Gaia-worshipping nutjobs like Julia Butterfly Hill who think trees can feel pain. We just want to protect our ecosystem because we fucking live here . Please tell me what's so horrendous about that?
At least, there are Christians out there who look for solutions for a problem WHICH IS PALPABLE, instead of speculating over something which they don't understand themselves, at least in a consistent way.
Ecoline, you probably already know this, but every day besides Saturday is either named after a norse god or comes from the norse names for days of the week.
Sunday: Sun's Day (sunadagr)
Monday: Moon's Day (Manadagr)
Tuesday: Tyr's Day
Wednesday: Odin's Day (Comes from the German Wotan)
Thursday: Thor's Day
Friday: I think it's actually Frey's day. But I've also heard it as Frigg's day.
Suck it fundies, my gods dominate the fucking week.
"Someone's expressing beliefs different from my own! It's so hard to be Christian in America! Surely this is a sign of the end times!"
...I get the feeling he was one of those idiots who ramped-up his electric/gas bill on Earth Day as a "protest." Granted, since many on that site seem to be part of the "He's coming any day now" camp, the idea of environmental stewardship is completely lost anyway. More fatalism in action.
Reply to Napoleon, who had asked why Laplace hadn’t mentioned God in his book on celestial mechanics:
"I had no need of that hypothesis." - Pierre-Simon Laplace
To the fundies, EVERYTHING is religious. And if it isn't about Yahweh or Jesus, then it's about demonic pagan deities and we're all going to burn in Hell forever AAIIEEEEE.
Seriously, they spend so much of their lives kissing their god's ass, I wonder they don't get hemorrhoids of the lips.
Ecoline, you probably already know this, but every day besides Saturday is either named after a norse god or comes from the norse names for days of the week.
Sunday: Sun's Day (sunadagr)
Monday: Moon's Day (Manadagr)
Tuesday: Tyr's Day
Wednesday: Odin's Day (Comes from the German Wotan)
Thursday: Thor's Day
Friday: I think it's actually Frey's day. But I've also heard it as Frigg's day.
Suck it fundies, my gods dominate the fucking week.
Saturday is named after the Roman god Saturn.
Mother's Day:
We exist because of our mothers
Our mothers are our mothers
Celebrate your mother.
Love your mother.
I don't recall any references to "Him" on Mother's Day; why should there be any on Earth Day?
Why do you idiots think that caring about the Earth and believing in God are mutually exclusive concepts? Is it not possible to love more than one thing? Are you only allowed to love God and hate everything else, including the Earth?
If so, your religion is even stupider than I already thought it was.
You don't actually know ANYTHING about Earth Day, do you? It isn't this New Age nature worship shit. It's "dude, this planet is the only one we've found currently capable of sustaining life; we should, you know, NOT FUCK IT UP."
If you love God so much, you could at least care for His creation, right? Wouldn't caring for the planet show appreciation for his creation, and therefore count as an act of worship?
This is not a hard concept to grasp: Stewardship of your fellow man and the planet is one of the most basic tenets of your faith!
I love how the comic implies that absolutely NO Christians celebrate Earth Day as a reminder that the earth, according to the Bible, was created "very good" (Gen 1) and that humans, given dominion over the earth (Gen 9: 1-3), ought to be good stewards of it (Luke 20: 9-16). Nope, Jesus is not specifically a reason for Earth Day, so Christians don't celebrate it.
This reasoning, of course, implies that no Christians ever observe Labor Day or Veterans' Day, either, since Jesus has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the origins of either of those holidays.
Well, to these fundies, they don't care at all about how they treat the Earth, even if it is our only home for the time being. Fundies don't care about keeping Earth livable, because they believe that they're going to be "going home" any moment now in their big whooshfest.
The problem is that, as I had explained by a fundie friend, is that fundies think that everything they do has to worship or give praise to god. So they see people celebrating Earth Day as a bunch of evil pagans worshiping or praising their god, and if there's no mention of God or Jesus then that activity must be totally evil and Satanic. Fundies have no concept of other people not worshiping anything at all.
I swear, fundies would be perfectly happy if every single channel on television had nothing but Christian preaching. With no commercials. And they would be equally happy if every day was a special prayer day, with no holidays (besides THEIR) holidays in existence.
Which shows how little they have to enjoy. I truly do pity them. Poor brainless, lifeless, bible-smoking, narrow-minded, yes-man clones. :(
80% of Harvestable forests are dead in BC. Know what that means? Redneck fundies have no jobs, no homes and no where to go. This happened because we don't get the good -40 and below temperatures for a month or so every winter.
So go pray for my fundie family to have jobs. They're dispersing all over Canada now, destroying that "close family" that you people harp on and on about.
And what the hell does Romans 1 have to do with environmentalism? I went and reread it just to see if I had missed something. It's the chapter where Paul goes loco and says that everyone that doesn't kiss his ass goes to hell.
Genesis 2:15 (New International Version)
15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
Yeah, god forbid you actually take care of the Earth like God told you too.
So, let me ask you this:
Is your house a pigsty? No? Of course not. You take care of your house. You pick up after yourself, you turn the lights off when you're not using them to save electricity, and you probably wash the dishes when you're done with them so they can be reused.
Tell me, how is applying this to the entire planet (where every human lives) a bad thing? We're not telling you to worship the earth, we're telling you to pick up your litter, to re-use materials as much as possible, and to try not to stink up the air with fossil fuels. Why is this wrong?
Dan you do know that your comics sound more like a parody of your message than what you are trying to get at.
The man watching the TV seems more like a conspiracy theory Christian, looking into everything for a sign than someone who is down to Earth.
I feel that I need to clarify and enlighten you all about this subject. It is fine to want to take care of the earth, bu environmentalism has come to a point of idolatry, where people care more about creation than worshiping God, the Creator. Romans 1:25 says "because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen." This is what the central argument for this cartoon.
Really.
Hmmm...
And here I thought this planet was God's gift to mankind, to hold sovereign over as it's stewards. I would think dedicating a day to acknowledge and preserve this gift would be a pretty good nod to God, would it not?
Of course, we all know this has fuck all to do with God, and everythign to do with the Conservatives clutching to their oil bucks, and scaring their sheep into thinking that this is anti-God, and that we're gonna make them live in mud huts without electricity or cars or iPhones...
So, breathable air, potable water and preserving biodiversity are controversial issues now?
Tell you what Dan, when your god eliminates smog, replants the rainforests and preserves species from extinction I will be the first to drop to my knees and give it thanks. Until then I will continue to do what I can to preserve life for the future and give my respect to those who do likewise. If your god wants a part of that respect, let it get off its cloud and do something.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
To post a comment, you'll need to Sign in or Register . Making an account also allows you to claim credit for submitting quotes, and to vote on quotes and comments. You don't even need to give us your email address.