Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 27, 2019

God is a mammal because man is created in God’s image, and man is a mammal.

Well, if Adam and Eve didn’t eat the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, then the crocodiles and their “zeeba neighba” here would get along AOK; the former not eating the latter.

I mean… they’re not wrong technically. Scholars believe that the serpent was actually to symbolize the Goddess Tiamat from a previous religion or, something like that, as opposed to the Devil, so, yeah.

Yay, crocs!

But the serpent lost its legs, so it couldn’t have been a croc.

You have to ask yourself, if this story is true, what was the reptile’s motive…?

I guess the asteroid that wiped out reptilian dominance on this planet was a racist too.

The power of a Croc mind at work ! …….. Croc Power !

And then there are all those other wacky mythologies.

And we are supposed to ALL believe some nonsense “religion” that tells us the world came into being in 6 days after some old guy sitting on a throne floating around in space waved his hand, that two people “POOF” were created from nothing, and the entire population of the Earth is descended from them, when they ONLY HAD TWO CHILDREN, BOTH BOYS? Not to mention the whole flood nonsense, zombies rising from the dead, talking snakes, and more??? Uh… no.

It was a fruit but the Bible doesn’t say it was an apple.

More Crocs!!!!

I’m always amazed that people will respond to a silly comic like this by explaining their actual theology. And you know they will before you even read the comments.

….As the serpent is still hissing in his pit…

Luv da crocks!

You got that right Larry – what a croc!

It wasn’t an apple, it was a fruit that was never given a name. Do Zebra need a fact check?

Iz hard to be croc. Mammals so judgmental. No like you ’cuz you got cold blood, fork tongue, scales. Mammals so mean.

The golden apple of the sun inscribed, ‘To the prettiest one.’

I thought men were created in the image of weasels.

Figures. Someone from the legless side of the family.

Hahahahahaha…..I luv gators

God is a spirit, we can imitate his attributes, that is how we are the image of God, God is love,power,wisdom etc. we can be the spitting image of a parent, in that we share their same attributes. : )

Nowhere in the scriptures does it EVER say the forbidden fruit was an apple.

Thanks for the crocs and zeebas! How about setting one day a week as “their day?”

God ? … She’s black.

LOL! I love this!

God can’t be a woman, otherwise man’s sexual organ would be on his chin!

Although, if Adam and Eve had never sinned, we never would have known the full extent of God’s love and mercy we would never really see just how far He’d be willing to go to keep us with Him. He Gave up his own Son Jesus Christ on our behalf. He became as flesh to better connect with His people, his children. Without the fall, we would never really see the things that Christians do Jesus would have never had to die for us on the cross and we would never see everything that God would be willing to do just to keep his children close to him

“There was never an apple that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.”

Angus Nutter “Witch”

I laughed, thanks

God really should have warned those kids about the snake. I mean, it’s not like it was a surprise.

Yep, many of us are antigatorites and avoid them at all costs.

If I had to think up a god to believe in, she’d be non-humanoid as well as a whole lot brighter than the average human. Probably an engineer too, or at least have that attitude. Oh and wouldn’t be poking at a running experiment just because some of the experiment’s parts were squeaking in some particular pattern.

One of my favorite bon mots about this: “Sure god loves us, but you’ll notice that she does it from a considerable distance!”

I do like the talking snake part.

Here, I can summarize the comment section in case you don’t want to trudge through it.

Pearls Before Swine: mentions religion

Aggressive Atheists: “Religion bad, eckspeshially Christianity. Religious people stoopid.”

Aggressive Christians: “No u”

Aggressive Atheists: “No u”

…and repeat.

Here’s the dealio: I don’t come to a comic strip Comments section for a theology lesson or bigotry.

Lighten up, PBS fans!

More liberal thinking. Everything is offensive and racist unless it vibes with your agenda.

The only reason I know it was a snake is because of Alec benjamin’s Song, “Steve”.

I always thought God was a Time Lord. I call it Dr. God.