Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 09, 2012

devils got nothing on calvin, or the latest bunch of political pundits

I think, Hobbes will have to carry you over the stones and he needs an angel who says him to do it!

I don’t believe in the Devil. I believe in God, the opposite of the Devil.

I’m quite secure in my own beliefs, and my own experiences. I’ll let the inevitable arguements between the informed, the misinformed, and the woefully ignorant commence. As much as I’d like my words here to matter, you can’t change the opinions and beliefs people have held for years with an online comment. To whomever reads this, may the peace of Christ be with you.

There is no spirit world. No gods, no devils, no angels,no demons. No sprites, no leprechauns, no trolls, no elves. No Santa, no Easter Bunny, no tooth fairy. No heaven or hell either. There isoly life and death. Live what you have to the fullest.

@Michael Erickson: But even if you believe what you just wrote, at least lead a MORAL life and try not to hurt anyone else or destroy the earth’s ecology.

@Michael Erickson: PS: Are you gonna leave the Earth a better place or a worse place when your death comes?

I’m with Hobbes on this one.

Morality and believing in a spirit world are two very different concepts and not related at all.

And I hope that no one equates atheism with “devil worship”, that is seriously illogical.

That’s part of the problem. You need to take a lot more than one day to read it in its entirety. Just reading a little bit is like calling a random person and asking them about cosmology.

If there is such thing as a devil, Calvin is it!

I liked to days strip,but come on no Santa and no Easter Bunny? enough to make you swear if you believe in ??

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people that he doesn’t exist.Virgil in “The Usual Suspects”

More like Obummer’s program…

The devil is just an excuse people came up with to justify their actions…He does not exist.

The only important thing is the Moral Imperative: Do unto others as you would like to have done to yourself!

In The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan asks the Devil: Do you believe in God? – And the Devil answers: “God knows I don’t know”.

The Devil is in the details, Calvin.

Personally, I’m secure in the knowledge that humans are, in general term, idiots. I’m also certain that we will likely be the cause of our own destruction, should such a thing happen.

Doesn’t look as though Hobbes is really listening…

Is he dancing in the first panel?

LOL xxx

Of course God and Satan exist, but only in as much as anyone of us sees them. They are not so much physical entities as they are concepts, concepts whose personification was meant to make them more believable to people. It is hard to imagine that all the universe would exist without being created, of that there seems to be a constant flux between good and evil without thinking someone must be in control of them. I have very different concepts of God and Satan; they are part of my world but as a scientific explanation for everything, not some mysterious beings.

There are lots of devils. They are called Republicans.

I think Hobbes got it perfectly.

Did “the great Sufi poet, Omar” create himself, too?

“Talk to the Animals!”

What I find hilarious is the idea that the existence of a “god” (in which I don’t believe, incidentally) means that a “devil” must exist. Non-Abrahamic religions don’t have a devil, and sometimes (as in the original, Hinayana form of Buddhism and in the original form of Jainism) no god either.

The greatest thing the devil has ever done is to get people to not believe in him.

How did we get here? How did here get here?If there’s no afterlife, then let’s eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die (quoted from Isaiah, Epicurus, and the Apostle Paul)! “If that’s all there is”, there’s only temporal purpose, and what does it matter after we’re gone? How did any purpose or anything else come into existence if there’s no God? Don’t mention evolution! It’s an impossible fantasy which is the only alternative to no God.

Calvin says it best in the last frame……

The funny thing about religious zealots is that they find it improbable that life came into being through the process of evolution (something supported by Chemistry, biology geology and paleontology) but find the god ideas of ancient and ignorant people who lived millenniums ago perfectly credible.

We believe in a Devil for his prophet lived in an undisclosed location for eight years guiding a brain-dead puppet into thinking he was president. There must therefore be a God because nature abhors a vacuum.

Devil or God . . . Both reside within you.The one you honor will protect you from the other.

Hobbes has a point: we are corrupted, fallen just far enough to know our misery and to reach, in vain, for what is better. Do we really need the devil’s help? Of course not—but the devil is willing to offer us ever more misery.

@King Shark I most certainly am. 8 years in an undisclosed location… doesn’t describe anyone. Bin Laden? Active for over 30 years. Bush? Huh?

@Kali39 If “nature abhors a vacuum” implies existence of God, then I feel as safe as ever being an atheist. The concept of “nature abhors a vacuum” was disproved by Evangelista Torricelli in the 1600s when it was shown that the “sucking” force of vacuums comes rather from an imbalance of pressure. Science always beats nonsense, remember that kids.

Hobbes as a bystander looking in, is so objective and very wise. A tiger who speaks the truth.

@Michael Erickson"Morality and believing in a spirit world are two very different concepts and not related at all." but many people are only moral because they believe a “spirit” may punish their evil-doing. Without this belief in a spirit, many people will have no incentive to act morally.

I think we got to make bigger bombs,then the west can prove there is a god,well at lest the believers from the west.Poor Calvin and Hobbes a discussion they will have many times till Calvin becomes a man.

Nor to Pagan like me that have read you collection of books.. It just doesn’t make sense. Maybe to some that follows Zoroaster.. Umm I think I just gave away the shop.

Eternity beckons to all…..

Animals are existentialists

Oh, there’s a devil! He’s Satan-the biggest liar and deceiver ever created. This world’s a mess because of him. But he has a future burning in the lake of fire for all eternity.

Remember this all took place in 5000 yr.All the fossils , oil all that real old stuff is to test your faith.I got a discount on three bridges the fruit cakes might want.And the earth is really round not flat.

Amen to that brother

I think that the 81 comments, some many paragraphs,some short answers some insulting conservatives,some declaring faith,some not,spread over 19 hours shows something about religion

Yeah, but who created his parents?

Don’t you know there ain’t no Devilit’s just God, when he’s drunk

—Tom Waits

quoting again from the sacred book of Waits: " If I exorcize my devils, my angels might leave too." Heart of Saturday Night, Track 8. lol

Where have you gone, Bill Watterson???!!!