Jews, Christians and Muslims all call me DADDY ... today's cartoon

[Neil Lisst]

Here's a thought about the current state of things in the world

[iamahaingttta]

1. There is and never was...

...a God.
It's all made up godledettygook!

[Ian David]

2. Starting a war over religion is like...

starting a brawl at a sci-fi convention over Kirk vs Piccard.

[Neil Lisst]

20. TNG was better than the original, but James T. Kirk was the template

for smarmy, over the top, cheesy machismo

Spock, I ... think that ... lifeform ... wants me!!

[Ian David]

26. Piccard killed Kirk....

All you TNG fans are Kirk-killers!

[Neil Lisst]

27. Make it so Number One!!

[electropop]

4. I think monotheism is such an excellent concept...

it must be a gift from the gods.

It never ceases to amaze me that billions have been bamboozled into building their entire lives, murdering, stealing, and raping all in the name of the imaginary abstraction called "God."

[Neil Lisst]

25. Who always just happens to love you the most!!

[Neil Lisst]

5. well, there is to THEM

and I'm appealing to their common thread

[Jim Sagle]

7. And you know this how?

[BlueEyedSon]

8. Proving a negative is difficult, but it is the default position.

[Neil Lisst]

10. "I believe in God because it's more fun than not believing in God."

I could probably recall who wrote that if I really tried.

I'm getting a vibe that it might be the guy who wrote Jonathan Livingston Seagull, in a different book.

Whoever wrote it, I like it. More fun than not. The first cause. The force. Who knows what it is, but there's something there, IMHO.

[darkmaestro019]

13. Richard Bach (not to be confused with Richard Bachman ) : ) and

if it wasn't him, it's still worth checking him out.

[Neil Lisst]

18. yeah, Richard Bach. The Way of the Peaceful Warrior?

I recall reading that book, but don't remember who wrote it.

I remember reading a couple of books by Bach, but I can't recall the name of the one that wasn't Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

[BlueEyedSon]

15. You want REAL fun? Believe in MANY gods!

Thor
Anubis
Ganesha
Zeus

[Neil Lisst]

19. the Hindu have a brazillian gods

[BlueEyedSon]

21. And the brazilians have string bikinis.... praise the lord!

[Neil Lisst]

23. hey, that's BUTT FLOSS ... remember Homer Simpsons'?

thank you Jebus!

[zeemike]

9. What a strong statement of faith.

You have made here. But it takes a strong faith to come to a conclusion despite the complexity of this universe and the inability of the best scientist to confirm your views.

[Neil Lisst]

11. I like to think of God as everything we don't understand yet

[zeemike]

12. And that is probably as close as one can get to truth

[BlueEyedSon]

16. More like a "definition" than evidence of existence

[Neil Lisst]

28. true, but the force we think of as god could still be there

I believe our belief in god is a rational belief, born of some kind of inherent knowledge. Our attempts to translate that force into some kind of humanly figure are laughable, and result in all the god stories and myths we have.

[BlueEyedSon]

29. I don't "understand" how gravity works, but I don't say "it's god's will"

when my pen falls off the table!

[Neil Lisst]

30. maybe I should have said 'god is everything I don't understand'

look, I'm making the moon disappear

[darkmaestro019]

14. Shades of Paul Graham: (history is) "All the data we have so far" nt

[Arkansas Granny]

22. But your opinion on this matter does not change the fact that

Jews, Muslims and Christians have been killing each other for hundreds of years and all of them claim that God is on their side.

:shrug:

[Neil Lisst]

24. we have a winner!! It's enough that they believe it!!

And truthfully, the genetic data seem to bear out a split about 4000 years ago, very recent for genetics. As I understand it, Jews and Palestinians native to that region are virtually identical, genetically, demonstrating some split about 4000 years ago.

The story of Abraham and Ismael and Isaac is just too damn good. Might have been true. Who knows about whether he was really talking with God, but the two bloodlines? That's for real, yall.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Arlo Guthrie sang a song about the Children of Abraham

I remember part of the lyrics:

Children of Abraham,
What's your story
Killing each other for a piece of land....

[Neil Lisst]

6. I can imagine him singing that while riding on the City of New Orleans

[Jeffersons Ghost]

17. K&R

amen

[Neil Lisst]

31. kickin it for the evening crowd

[Jeffersons Ghost]

32. back atcha

putting it up higher with a :kick: