Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 08, 2019

God and Santa Claus actually have a lot in common.

They are both mythical beings.

They both love you unconditionally. Well, there is one condition — they love you “unconditionally,” but only if yo BELIEVE.

They are both socialists.

The end of that “reverse mortage” story they’re selling?

Would it help to name all the reindeer?

Some times, folks, a satirical joke is just a joke. But, then, no good joke goes unpunished in the comments.

So, Heaven is presents and Hell is coal? (“beautiful clean coal”)

Considering how the one commandment which Santa Claus has is “be nice”, he might be the best one for the job.

With Santa making a list & checking it twice there appears no chance of anyone bad gaining entry.

Sorry, there’s no sitting in his lap and telling him your wishes here, either.

that scroll looks like Santa’s toboggan

So the trick is to die on Christmas Eve, right? I hear his substitute is a pushover.

Way to go Wyley you really did a good job today

Why SHOULDN’T St. Nicholas sub for St Peter once in a while??

That’s a Salvation Army Santa…the real Santa is sandbagging the North Pole because the oceans are rising.

Oh, you better not pout / You better not cry / Try not to stare / At the camera eye / Welcome to the surveillance state. / We’re making a list / Getting it right / Before we arrive / In the dead of the night / Welcome to the surveillance state. / We see you when you’re sleeping / We know when you’re awake / We’re ready to jump down your throat / For the tiniest mistake. / So, you better not pout / You better not cry / Try not to stare / At the camera eye / Welcome to the surveillance state.

Let’s see… we have the Easter Bunny who leaves us treats, Santa leaves presents, and the Tooth Fairy leaves cold cash…. did I leave out any mythical figures?

St. Peter outsources Pearly Gates duty?

Wiley Miller: You come out with something spectacular every day.

You know, I’ve always thought that the most important verse in the Bible is right up front: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” It’s not a suggestion or a hypothesis; you either accept it or not, no middle ground and no third choice. Everything that follows flows from that, and if you can’t take it as an axiom, no amount of logic or reasoning will make up for it…you’ve walked out of the theater, and the rest of the play is reasonably not yours to critique.

The “conditions” on God’s love are not His, but rather are imposed by human beings who want a piece of His action. Way back when, that was called the sin of “simony”, but nowadays it’s just too darn profitable to call a sin… Seriously, what could He possibly need that you or I could give him? Even faith is presented as a gift to us that we’re free to accept or not; if we choose to subjugate ourselves to other human beings because we’re greedy for more, whose fault is that?

God, a socialist? He wants us to take care of each other and the world we live in, and to be happy. Sounds okay to me, whatever (human) label you want to put to it.

Now, Santa Claus is something else again. The historical Saint Nicholas, a third-century bishop in Asia Minor, would be pretty appalled by what our commercial society has done with his name.

Wiley, you left out that giant pearl, one of 12 that are carved through and lead to the interior of an impossibly gigantic building called “New Jeruselum” along with a “new Heaven” & “new Earth” that are among the promises.

In 21:16, the angel measures the city with a golden rod or reed, and records it as 12,000 stadia by 12,000 stadia at the base, and 12,000 stadia high. A stadion is usually stated as 185 meters, or 607 feet, so the base has dimensions of about 2220 km by 2220 km, or 1380 miles by 1380 miles.

New Jerusalem – Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jerusalem

Obviously you haven’t read the Bible

ho ho ho