The airplane fire burned itself out, he waited for hours, then assumed no one saw the smoke, and no one was coming.
To assume no one saw the smoke is generally a bad assumption in those circumstances. I wonder if he thought to mark his trail when he decided to leave the crash site?
Joe Allen Doty
You are correct in saying that God and Jesus are not mentioned in the constitution or bill of rights. The closest it comes is the “establishment” clause. However, the Declaration talks about the “creator” granting certain rights and most of the men who crafted our current form of government were Christian men. They knew from experience that a government-crammed religion such as the Church of England was wrong. That’s why they put the establishment clause in the Bill of Rights (congress is explicitly forbidden from ESTABLISHING a state-sponsored religion). That does not and never did mean that Judeo-christian principles and morality were to be ignored. And while “Under God” was added to the pledge in the 50’s, “In God We Trust” has been on our currency for a LOT longer than that.
Doctor Toon, that why the Constitution has the establishment clause - so people can’t use government to cram their interpretation of religion down our throats. Political Correctness violates both the spirit and the letter of the first amendment. (Courts ordering people to stop practising or talking about their religion because someone is “offended”.)
Many or most of the founding fathers were Deists - which is usually not considered orthodox Christianity (Jefferson had his own version of the Bible with the parts he didn’t like cut out). The gist of Deism is that God created the world, and left us to our own devices. I.e., God doesn’t interfere until Judgement Day (no miracles, no Incarnation).
There are many competing versions of a Scientific “Theory of Everything” in modern physics. The various proponents squabble and insult one another. That doesn’t mean there is no objective physical reality their theories are trying to describe. Formal theology is like a theory of physics. All orthodox Christian theologies agree on basics (like most theories of physics reduce to Newtonian physics under ordinary human conditions). On more difficult points, there is passionate disagreement (and all too often decidedly unchristian expression of that passion).
Why don’t they use those little circles leading up to the text balloon above the general, indicating that those are his thoughts? I can’t believe he would be having this conversation with himself. Then again, he’s done some pretty strange things already.
Well, the Church has now line item vetoes Freed Of Religion, so what doe sit all matter? Everybody has to follow what the Church says. If the Church says gays are evil, they’re evil. If the Church says America is a Christian only country, so it must be. Would explain the reluctance to join WW2. Why help Jews? The Church doesn’t like them. Just the Jew jesus, and his old man, the Jews’ god.
margueritem over 15 years ago
He lit the plane, and then leaves?!? What the heck kind of a military guy is this?
wndrwrthg over 15 years ago
A rather poorly concealed air shaft.
linsonl over 15 years ago
Must be goin’ goofy..like the rest of us,
wndrwrthg over 15 years ago
NotNorman, I think it was the Kiss army.
Jogger2 over 15 years ago
The airplane fire burned itself out, he waited for hours, then assumed no one saw the smoke, and no one was coming.
To assume no one saw the smoke is generally a bad assumption in those circumstances. I wonder if he thought to mark his trail when he decided to leave the crash site?
sydney over 15 years ago
I’ll bet he’s just had his first “sighting” of the Flying Saucer carrying Aliens Jay Maeder wants to introduce into Annie.
Dont mind he didn’t like them in Dick Tracy, Commercially they’ll do good for this strip.
Otherwise, why have him fly off into nowhere ?
JanLC over 15 years ago
Joe Allen Doty You are correct in saying that God and Jesus are not mentioned in the constitution or bill of rights. The closest it comes is the “establishment” clause. However, the Declaration talks about the “creator” granting certain rights and most of the men who crafted our current form of government were Christian men. They knew from experience that a government-crammed religion such as the Church of England was wrong. That’s why they put the establishment clause in the Bill of Rights (congress is explicitly forbidden from ESTABLISHING a state-sponsored religion). That does not and never did mean that Judeo-christian principles and morality were to be ignored. And while “Under God” was added to the pledge in the 50’s, “In God We Trust” has been on our currency for a LOT longer than that.
wndrwrthg over 15 years ago
I don’t trust god and I trust its believers even less. The founding fathers were not “christians”.
stuart over 15 years ago
Doctor Toon, that why the Constitution has the establishment clause - so people can’t use government to cram their interpretation of religion down our throats. Political Correctness violates both the spirit and the letter of the first amendment. (Courts ordering people to stop practising or talking about their religion because someone is “offended”.)
Many or most of the founding fathers were Deists - which is usually not considered orthodox Christianity (Jefferson had his own version of the Bible with the parts he didn’t like cut out). The gist of Deism is that God created the world, and left us to our own devices. I.e., God doesn’t interfere until Judgement Day (no miracles, no Incarnation).
There are many competing versions of a Scientific “Theory of Everything” in modern physics. The various proponents squabble and insult one another. That doesn’t mean there is no objective physical reality their theories are trying to describe. Formal theology is like a theory of physics. All orthodox Christian theologies agree on basics (like most theories of physics reduce to Newtonian physics under ordinary human conditions). On more difficult points, there is passionate disagreement (and all too often decidedly unchristian expression of that passion).
jpozenel over 15 years ago
Why don’t they use those little circles leading up to the text balloon above the general, indicating that those are his thoughts? I can’t believe he would be having this conversation with himself. Then again, he’s done some pretty strange things already.
mrprongs over 15 years ago
Well, the Church has now line item vetoes Freed Of Religion, so what doe sit all matter? Everybody has to follow what the Church says. If the Church says gays are evil, they’re evil. If the Church says America is a Christian only country, so it must be. Would explain the reluctance to join WW2. Why help Jews? The Church doesn’t like them. Just the Jew jesus, and his old man, the Jews’ god.
davidf42 over 6 years ago
Morning, Anniephans!