(To another Christian who was complaining about all the "witch craft" being sold at Barnes & Noble)
Charles Sloan, you should be ashamed of yourself. Please tell me that you at least shield that cartoon from your children, even if you do brashly display it in your avatar and your signature.
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Calvin and his tiger Hobbes never interact with their parents(only with each other and friends), never promote any anti-social behaviour(WTF?), they're not sexist(Susie, Calvin's friend is never portrayed in a bad light)and belief in evolution(?). I'm sure that either this guy has never read the cartoons, or he's using words that he thinks that may have an impact for their negativity.
I don't think this guy ever even read the comics.
Calvin is based off the religious dude who founded Calvanism during the Protestant Reformation, Hobbes is based off of Thomas Hobbes. If you know your philosophy, you can see a lot of them come out in the philosophical discussions about god, but then ITS JUST A COMIC and its supposed to be FUNNY!!! For fuck's sake.
Calvin and Hobbes win forever. FOREVER DAMMIT!!!
Imagine bookstores in Charlie's future theocratic America... One book, the Bible, on all of the shelves. Of course, said America will probably only have about a 20% literacy rate so bookstores would probably be a thing of the past. That or they'd only sell picture Bibles.
Christianity, the shame game. If what you're looking at has any connotations at all, no matter how obscure, light-hearted or unprovocative it is Satan!
"depict" != "promote".
Most people learn the difference between these two things before they leave primary school; please try to keep up.
Oh, and what you probably meant to say was "shield your children from that cartoon", not vice versa.
That or they'd only sell picture Bibles.
The cult couldn't do that; it would be suicide! Many fundies, while inexplicably quite happy to read textual descriptions of the most vile, barbaric behaviour, get quite upset when they see it laid out for them in pictures - just look at the hatemail that guy who does the Brick Testament gets, despite his scrupulous adherence to the accepted texts. This is probably a testament to the average fundie's total lack of imagination.
Let's see:
Seriously, chill out. You do not need to personally see to it that everything is censored to perfectly fit your worldview.
Hmm... Disrespectful to parents you say? anti-social behaviour ? sexism?
If you hadn't mentioned evolution, I'd think we were talking about the bible.
Your problem is that Calvin and Hobbes are too intelligent to grow up fundie. They are smart enough to realize that Harry Potter is fiction, Egyptology is history history, not satanism, evolution is a science and as such is knowledge, not a belief, and your attempt to dictate to others what they can or cannot read to fit your own self-righteous beliefs is anti-American and destructively anti-social.
"Doesn't the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon promote disrespect for parents, destructive anti-social behavior, sexism, and belief in evolution? I know I've seen that flagrantly displayed and even jokingly encouraged throughout its pages. Bookstores carry that awful material too."
Oh, bookstores carry materials MUCH worse than that! There's this one particularly offensive book they often carry that contains favorable accounts of incest, polygamy, adultery, rape, mutilation, murder, and genocide. I believe its title is The Bible.
"Oh noes! They're making fun of us!"
Unless you didn't know, NEVER get pissed of about criticizing comedian of any sort, he/she/it will have the crowds hearts, you won't
There are two characters there: "Charlie" who is quoted, and "Charles Sloan" who (previously)had a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon in his signiture.
*laughs* oh man you guys have to see what Charles thinks qualifies as witchcraft, he has even supplied photos!
Charlie has apparently never met a real child.
My good sir,
You can insult atheists, America, science, logic, reason, medicine, thought, freedom, and liberty.
But when you insult Calvin and Hobbes, the gloves are fucking OFF!
Calvin and Hobbes rules! Is it my imagination, or do things that are popular with intelligent people, or on college campuses get attacked more often by fundies? Calvin and Hobbes, Monty Python the Simsons... They'll be coming after Bloom County next.
Calvin and Hobbes promotes humor.
The disrespect for parents, destructive anti-social behavior, sexism, and belief in evoluation parts only come in when you have no sense of humor.
Sourpuss. You're just a sourpuss. No one likes you. You should kill yourself.
(And stop masturbating on your kids' stuffed toys!)
Thanks to Vesper and others who gave me some of those cartoons. Not carried locally (Nn I'm not on Mars)
Calvin and Hobbes is some of the best daily cartooning for a long time! It's probably not as wide as Charlie Brown Because it's got nerve. It's should be in the besr papers.
The OP should have been quoted:
OH NO!
Oh no. OHHH NO. You did NOT just diss Calvin and Hobbes.
You've just gone and declare war on everyone who recognises a good comic strip. FOADIAF, fanchooverymuch.
Woah, woah, woah. Did this faggot just diss Calvin and Hobbes?
Is Rapax going to have to pringer beam a bitch?
You people should read the whole thread. The OP is the fundie, this guy's just making fun of him.
A few posts in, someone complains that the Christian section is in the very back, and that that's disrespectful to Christianity. Because everyone knows that stores are only trying to hide Christian books, instead of trying to get customers to walk past all of the more popular books to reach the Christian section. That's not a common sales technique or anything. Humans never buy impulsively. /sarcasm
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