Peanuts by Charles Schulz for March 27, 2014

Mistake in the first panel. Violet is talking when she’s not suppose to be.

So what’re the Browns: Lutheran or United Methodist? In Sparky’s Wikipedia page, it said he (Sparky) was both. As for Violet’s family, what does she do while the folks are at the coffee shop?

Coffee house is better, since there is no god. Go out and live your life, it’s the only one you’re going to have.

Ahhhh!!! the church of coffee! Mmmmmm…..

Let’s see…..Coffee houses. Early 1960’s I’d guess.

Actually panel one has two drops from the balloon, but the main one is to Charlie.. the other is behind Violet

It’s not a Christian idea, either. I remember sitting in a friend of mine’s office in the 80s while he (a rabbi) talked on the phone. “Oh yes, Mrs X, well—in the winter she belongs to our synagogue. In the summer, she belongs to camping.” As we say where I live, they cook beans everywhere.

@JoClear: people gathering together for worship is more about intentionality of the community than merely being together. While God is everywhere, there is something about the mutual support of an intentional community. Mind you, when I’m alone, I love hanging at the coffee house.

Nowadays, some of those big megachurches have little coffee houses in their lobbys. I’d say “best of both worlds”, but I don’t like the concept of megachurches. I prefer my small church where everyone knows everyone and we’re like family.

I didn’t notice but it seems Violet is also talking in Panel 1! Huh. Hey, coffee’s tasty!!

I’d heard a joke where a teacher asked her students to bring in an item that was part of their religion -

Kid 1 – “I’m Catholic, and this is my rosary.”Kid 2 – "I’m Jewish, and this is my yarmulke.’Kid 3 – “I’m Lutheran, and this is my hot dish.”

I often wonder why Protestants think going to church is so important. It’s important to Catholics because the Mass is the opportunity to actually be present at the Sacrifice on Calvary. But for Protestants, it’s just a social gathering.

It’s hard to see why non-Catholic Christians tend to give it so much importance when they can accomplish exactly the same thing as going to their church just by getting together and saying some prayers at a coffee house.

For the coffee house – Starbucks, perhaps?

Maybe, the first Star Bucks was created in 1971.

Ah, the Church of Holy Starbucks (at least it would be today). Back then, the ol’ local independent.

Question…

Priest and Nuns have taken a "Vow of poverty, right??

Why isn’t the Vatican or People (donating Money/Charity /Funds) sponsoring and sending them to go to Medical schools to study Medicine and become Doctors/Nurses or R&D Medicine/Vaccines/Remedies?? I mean, it would be a BIG help to the Poor or for those who can’t afford Medical-Heath-Care or Medicine…

Not sure what denomination Charlie Brown is, but it’s clear that Violet’s family are Unitarians.

I’ve met people like Violet’s folks.

Red C Cafe. That’s all I’m going to say.

Donate or rotate.

@Jonathan Mason So you believe you are just an appliance? When your body dies out you are basically “unplugged”? Where does your consciousness go?

Now let’s leave Jonathan alone. Some people revel in the notion of being nothing more than a maggot’s breakfast in the making.

One would have had a hard time finding a coffee house in the 60s, especially one that was open on Sunday, unless it was in a major metropolitan area

Getting back to Schulz, he was quite evangelical at times, especially as a young man (to the point of witnessing on street corners) and hooked up with the Assembly og God for a number of years. Later in life, though, he described himself in an interview as secular. I doubt he ever lost faith, though – remember how he fought CBS to have Linus recite from the Bible. “If we don’t do it, who will?” he asked.

Free WiFi at the coffee shop now-a-days. Maybe they should try that at the churches on a Sunday and see if they get more people in.

FOLKS….a coffeehouse is NOT a coffee shop, and certainly not a Starbucks, emphasis on BUCKS. A coffee house is where the Beat Generation went to exchange ideas, listen to poetry and tune in to the new music. There would be literary readings, speeches on the current angst, etc. The big difference is that people were plugged in to other people and the actual outside world, not the virtual world. Espresso was introduced to Americans there. Here, let Jimmy Gilmer tell it :THE SUGAR SHACK by Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs (1963):

There’s a crazy little shack beyond the tracksAnd ev’rybody calls it the sugar shackWell, it’s just a coffeehouse and it’s made out of woodExpresso coffee tastes mighty goodThat’s not the reason why I’ve got to get backTo that sugar shack, whoa babyTo that sugar shack.

There’s this cute little girlie, she’s a’workin’ thereA black leotard and her feet are bareI’m gonna drink a lotta coffee, spend a little cashMake that girl love me when I put on some trashYou can understand why I’ve got to get backTo that sugar shack, whoa babyTo that sugar shack, yeah honeyTo that sugar shack, whoa yesTo that sugar shack

THAT’s a coffeehouse.

That sounds pretty cool, or hot. Whichever you prefer.xxx

I’m guessing Violet’s parents were in the Jesus movement.

Adam never existed, JPuzzleWhiz. The story is a fictional construct, an extended metaphor for the seemingly intractable flaws in human nature.

That would never have happened in our church. I’ve seen enough examples similar to prove it, including my husband’s extended hospital stay in 2010, when the entire church rallied around us…and people pick up their own envelopes. :)

You’re very confussed if you think science and nature are separate from God. He knows all there is to know about them. Man knows only a tiny bit. And Violet didn’t say her family doesn’t believe in God.