Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 20, 2014

I’m pretty sure there is a Mr. and Mrs. God….Look at the duality of nature….Or, like a flower, one God could be both male and female….But, anyway,they have just found an ancient scroll that shows Jesus talking about his wife,,,,Most likely Mary from Magdala… In his time, many, many of the apostles were women…

“Singular” is the grammatical number for “one”.

Is there a grammatical number for “zero” ?

Ummm, Jesus was a Jew and first celebrated the Jewish passover on Nisan 14, a full moon, dismissed Judas then celebrated a simple bread and wine celebration with the faithful 11.This year that date (Passover /full moon) was last Monday, so the anniversary of his death was Tuesday, resurrected Thursday.That it is moved to a Friday annually has NO scriptural basis, neither do the pagan fertility symbols of rabbits and eggs …Then again the pagans don’t care what the truth is.

I’m with Caulfield.

LOL!!!! To you all.

Obsessing about the date is really sort of missing the point, isn’t it? (Said point being: to give the evangelical atheists an opportunity to demonstrate they can be just as annoying as evangelical Christians…)

wow! heavy chat. whi da thunk this would become a site for discussions on epistemology and metaphysics!?!?

Not that Night-Gaunt really needs anyone to defend him, I would like to point out that merely mentioning that Christian metaphysics are interesting is hardly a “slur” and is certainly not bigoted.

Re: your comment yesterday

“Texas seems to be a bit more liberal in that area.”

Now there is a sentence you don’t hear everyday (ever?)!!

There were no female apostles in the ancient church. That would have been heresy among the Jews. They were, of course, counted among his disciples or followers. And in Genesis, the word for God is actually plural and should read “gods.” He did create both man and woman “in His own image.”

Christianity is nothing more than a Santa Claus death cult.

Very interesting comments today kids. Keep them coming.

Happy 4/20. Peace.

@AshburnStadiumSomeone probably has answered this, but most Christians believe that the old ways passed away with the Resurrection, so we don’t keep kosher. The 10 Commandments still apply because Christ gave us a new commandment: Love God (1st 3 commandments) and love your neighbor as yourself (last 7 commandments).

Pace Vobiscum.

You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.- Galatians 5:13

Within reason, what we eat and how we celebrate is a matter of conscience. The point is, in all that we do, do we show that we love God above everything else (the greatest commandment) and do we love others as we love ourselves (the next greatest commandment)?

For all you apocalypse freaks out there… this is the day for celebrating the “Zombie J-Man” (HEY! It’s a joke, lighten up!)

religion ruins everything.

The Jehovah’s Witnesses celebrate on a calculated date after sunrise and I remember thinking they were pretty precise /without all the pagan hoopla like the bunnies and eggs. Their ways seem pretty accurate but I’m no expert.

Why do this strips continually seem to be sounding boards for intolerant anti religionists. If someone chooses to believe something in good faith on their part,especially something that is faith not fact based why do you feel that you’re the arbiter or of all reality by pointing out that they’re wrong. For the faithful no proof is needed for the unbelievers no proof is adequate.

The whole Bible is valid for the Christian. But the Law was given through Moses to the Jewish people, as a “covenant” with them only. The books of the Old Covenant also pointed the Jews to Christ.

When Christ came, He taught that no one could be saved by keeping the Law because no one CAN keep the Law perfectly. He taught that the Law is good but the Law lacks the power to make one righteous. He always taught repentance and faith as the way to God. This is also what the Old Testament, as far back as Abraham, says. “Abraham believed the Lord, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” (Genesis 15:6) Christ repeatedly says that the way to God is through Him. His crucifixion paid the price - fulfilled the Law: When He cried “It is finished,” He was saying “Paid in full.”

Now Paul played a valid and important role in the early church. Not only did he carry the Gospel to the Gentiles but he helped Gentile Christians learn how to put Christianity into practice. As the Law was given to the Jews, the Gentiles were not meant to follow all areas of the Law. Jesus Himself declared this. His whole ministry was designed around teaching others to LOVE God, rather than to follow a set of rules. Obedience should come out of a desire to please God, not out of a sense of obligation. Many of the Pharisees and Teachers of the Law were criticized by Christ, not for their love of the Law, but for their hypocrisy and making a show of their deeds rather than making it a matter of the heart. As Christ Himself said, the entire Law can be summarized as “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength,” and “Love your neighbor as yourself.” (Mark 12:28-31) Christ’s sacrificial death made it possible for us to not worry about perfection in following the Law. Paul did not teach that the Law was not valid. He taught that the Gentile was not “bound” by the Law.Now, a Gentile who wished to convert to Judaism had to commit to the Law, even to circumcision. But Gentile Christians were never required to commit to the Jewish Law. The Council at Jerusalem encouraged them only to “abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.” (Acts 15) Paul ALWAYS taught that obedience to God should be the desire of the of believer and that this obedience was out of love and gratefulness for the grace of God shown through the Lord Jesus Christ.

Squirrel!!!!

Hell no, man. You’re well supported.

I was raised in a society that believes in this mythology. If I was born in India I probably would have been nudged to have a little shrine to Ganesha.

As for all the “new testament, new covenant” apologists, please remember this next time you wear mixed fibers:

Matthew 5-17: ""Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or theprophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.""

(Yes, I went to a Jesuit University. Those guys were amazingly open-minded to the point they criticized in their thesis the Nicean council interpretation of the bible and exclusion of some apocrypha. Guess that’s why they’ve been excommunicated so many times).