One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for August 30, 2010

Actually, that’s really sweet.

She’s planted next to the Tree of Life.

Awwww…..

That is really sweet. And I’m glad the First Amendment still protects the cartoonist. Don’t let the ACLU get hold of it.

Just one problem: ain’t no dirt in heaven!

I thought that it was there is no beer in heaven.

the faith of a child… this is sweet

Poor, deluded child. Suzette’s with the leprechauns and unicorns in Valhalla.

Don’t you just hate the lies some parents tell their kids?

@jackdohany, “…ain’t no dirty in heaven!”

That may be so, but there is soil in heaven.

@orest, “…Suzette’s with the leprechauns and unicorns in Vahalla.”

Ya shur, ya betcha! Valhalla is just the Scandahoovian neighborhood of heaven.

Imanartisthoney: I think it would be from C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia books – I can’t quite recall which one, though.

aircraft-engineer: Did you study to be a curmudgeon, or were you born that way?

What you call “pap” is an attempt to express in everyday terms something that – and I think we can all agree about this – would be utterly unlike anything in our everyday experience, and therefore impossible to express. So, we imagine it in terms we can relate to.

The attempt is sometimes clunky, but what of it? It takes away nothing from the reality that there’s more to existence than what’s inside our own skin, no matter how we try to understand it. (The person who thinks that that *is* all there is to reality is a sorry case, and usually unpleasant to be around.) And no one needs to learn that more than a child; it’s how a child becomes a decent, civilized human being.

who do the islamic and hindu trees go to live with?

….and what aircraftengineer said was quite correct…..

remember those pictures from the thirties showing little kids dressed up as nazis and holding their hands up in the nazi straight armed salute……so cute…..so frightening…..same with the little kids dressed up as klansmen in this country…..

hate is usually absorbed from the parents

Too dry in the desert for those Islamic trees

It’s still sweet.

I think it’s sweet too!

Nighthawks Could the Islamic and Hindu trees go to an adjacent plot in the same garden? I believe we are more alike than different. A tree is still a tree no matter what it looks like or where it grows or what it is called.

That being said, I just accept this cartoon for what it is to me…a little girl dealing with loss in her way.

aircraft-engineer, you’re the one who’s forcing your beliefs down everybody’s throat. Hypocritical much?

Sorry Ruthie, but your faith decrees that since Suzette never accepted jesus as he lord and savior, she’s burning in Hell right now.

aircraft-engineer, how can you direct me to Hades? If there is no Heaven, there can not be a Hades, and if there is no Hades there can not be a Heaven. Make up your mind, for Heavens sake!!

SCAATY_423 said,

“She’s planted next to the Tree of Life.”

Which is planted next to Thmas Paine’s “Tree of Liberty.”

Hey aircraft engineer, why so militant about what you believe? Does it harm you that someone has a belief that you don’t hold to be true? How does someone else’s belief, or non-belief harm you? And why are you making a point of being a spoiled little person about someone’s beliefs? I’m a non-believer, and cannot feel offense in what Detorie has drawn and written, why should you?

Sounds to me like everyone is pretty assertive about what they believe today. I’m fine with a tree that’s going to the chipper going to live with Jesus also. In my opinion, Jesus lives in the mulch pile, and everywhere else there is life, hope, love, rest, or energy. I’m also fine with someone saying Jesus is in the sky with a tree. (So’s the ACLU, by the way, Davidf42 !) Or with people dismissing the issue as fodder for humor.

The worst problem with Hitler and the Klan is that with them, others had to believe what they believed. Here on this page, it seems like free diversity is alive and well.