I’m going to be so sad when every character has had a chance to stand in front of barbed wire Jesus and I have no reason to use this premise again. This is seriously one of my favorite recurring things. Putting characters in front of something like a crucifix allows you to illustrate things about them that you wouldn’t normally get to without a lot of setup. The characters I write tend not to be very reverent of much of anything, but they also aren’t generally maliciously disrespectful. They are playful in their attitude towards this religious icon. That’s pretty common for your typical secular Christian in the Midwest. They tend to be pretty chill about their beliefs until someone else stops being chill. The more zealous Christians range in severity from chill to openly hostile, which is true of any group of believers really.
Attitudes about religion have shifted a lot from when I was a kid and this comic still takes place at a time when things weren’t quite as intense at they are becoming now. Of course as time has gone on a lot of things I thought were generally agreed upon have become issues in conflict. I guess that’s just the nature of things with a short lived species like humans. every 20 years or so we cycle in and out a new group of people as the march to the grave continues. Old thought finds its way to the dirt and the clean slate of kids who know everything come in to have their say. The merry go round of life keeps spinning between each new set of riders.
In any case I’m going to have to start manufacturing reasons for the cast to stand before Christ and commentate pretty soon. I dunno how I’m gonna do it, but I really don’t want to give this up. XD
I should probably quit while I’m ahead on this subject since it’s very hard to gauge how touchy people are these days. As far as religion goes I feel like as long as you don’t infringe on the rights of others you should be able to worship whatever you want however you want. Not infringing on the rights of others is pretty much my polestar for everything though.

I hope you have a nice weekend. I’m not sure what shape mine will take, but I intend to place more DVDs into my DVD holder and move the cases to whatever storage I can find that’s out of my way. I feel like I may have underestimated how many DVDs I have though. I thought it might be a little over 400, but I forgot that a lot of my sets have multiple discs. It’s not like I can’t buy another holder though. Anyway, I hope to see you on Monday. Until then, take a journey with excellence.

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Our borgors are saviory.

It wasn’t long ago that children followed their parents and change took far longer than a generation. I don’t think it’s our lifespans, but the speed of our lives. We have 12-year-olds forming opinions on geopolitical conflicts on the other side of the planet and using technology their parents would have considered sorcery at that age, often to access content they ought not to for some years yet. It’s not even 20 years anymore; 20-year-olds today don’t understand 10-year-olds today. I think you can see this with media; no longer does the family gather around the television to watch family programming, but instead, every age group, and both genders, have their own, specialized content, which they watch separately in each room of the house. I wonder how far it’ll go, but I’m not really looking forward to it. I already have a niece who barely tolerates being in the same room as any of us and literally has no hobbies that are not on her phone–she’ll be first in line to upload her consciousness to the cloud.

Does anyone remember if Ed & Nina are still inside?

Ed and Nina left while Jess was outside with Evrina

I’ve long found interesting the different variations in Christian symbolism. It seems to run from the bare cross in the Baptist church of my childhood up to the torn and bleeding Christ such as seen above. As far as buying that sort of thing goes, churches come and go. Buildings get remodeled and so on and the paraphernalia show up in antique stores. It might not have been as expensive as you would think.
The cycle of change kind of goes along with the theory of history/political change that I subscribe to these days. There are some things that just don’t get acknowledged or considered until the generation that was involved has passed. A current example is WWII where the current crop of historians is going back to the archives for original source documents to revisit some stuff that “everybody” knows. You see it in documents that are explicitly sealed for seventy five or a hundred years. A more current example is that the relationship between Cuba and the U.S. has improved a bit in recent decades but I don’t think it will really ever normalize until everyone who can remember the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs first hand is dead and gone.

I’ve been waiting to see Thomas and Carol’s reaction to God be with brew. This’ll be good.

I was raised in a home where christianity was served up by the shovel full. However my mother screwed up and taught me how mirrors worked before she told me that there was a devil on my shoulder. I have literally been an atheist since I was in diapers.

Has anyone else ever thought this was a very large chocolate sculpture for Easter?

If it’s not, someone needs to make that.

…..Not sure what you’d make the barbed wire out of though.

Licorice strings.

it’s not really touchy with me. like you said, don’t infringe on the rights of others and that’s all I would ask

for me, my parents were very casually religious. I never got taken to church and I don’t think I ever heard bible verses until I was in high school. the most exposure I got to the christian god was through christmas carols, so I don’t think it should be at all surprising that in middle school, all of the god stuff got filed into fairy tales along with all the others. especially the hell stuff, cuz that sounds no different than the boogieman or krampus or the like. be a good kid or you’ll get coal, or get taken by monsters, or burn in hell

2842 That’s Good Savior.

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