Darrin Bell’s Candorville is an insightful look at family, community and race through the eyes of Lemont Brown, a young black writer. Bell pulls no punches and delves into even the most controversial of issues. The wit and humor of the strip will draw you in.
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griffon88 said, 6 months ago
On the plus side Clyde, there’s no evidence for god(s). On the minus side, you still know what you did, ‘Thug 4 Life’.
rshive said, 6 months ago
Clyde’s still in the philosophical stage. Reality can wait.
sleeepy2
said, 6 months ago
@griffon88
If your looking for evidence you’re kind of missing the point.
BillJ-MN said, 6 months ago
@sleeepy2
Sure, let’s all believe in flying purple unicorns in spite of the lack of evidence for them. After all, looking for evidence is missing the point.
kerb berk said, 6 months ago
If you are not seeing the evidence, you are kinda blind.
Tacopielvr said, 6 months ago
Clyde sounds exactly like my ex-girlfriend.
BillJ-MN said, 6 months ago
@kerb berk
What passes for evidence of deities boils down to “I dunno, must be magic.”
761st said, 6 months ago
check out Ben Stein’s take on God and America
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_ben_stein_christmas.htm
rvernon said, 6 months ago
@BillJ-MN
Atheist dogma is just as annoying as religious dogma. The religious can’t know for certain there’s a God, and you can’t know for certain there isn’t one. So let’s all stop acting as if WE’RE the omniscient ones.
Keeper 98 said, 6 months ago
Atheists acknowledge there’s no way to disprove God. They simply say the existence of God is as likely as that of the Tooth Fairy. Big difference from saying anything you can’t explain is proof of the existence of a superior being.
rvernon said, 6 months ago
@Keeper 98
That’s such a lazy analogy that it’s no different than saying God can be disproven. Unicorns, tooth fairies, Big Foot, and anything else used in these analogies are allegedly physical beings that should have been sighted by now but haven’t been. God is nothing of the sort. God is allegedly the all-knowing force that created and guides the mechanisms of the universe and – according to monotheistic religions – personally intervenes to improve our lives if we’re good to ourselves and each other. God isn’t a physical being that comes to your house to give you a quarter.
rvernon said, 6 months ago
Also, I don’t believe that’s accurate, that atheists acknowledge there’s no way to disprove God. Atheists argue that the lack of empirical evidence, coupled with the fact that the Bible’s filled with stories (like the whale, the flood, the Messiah, etc.) that have been repackaged from earlier civilizations, is evidence that God was concocted by ignorant sheep herders who didn’t understand the nature of reality yet. The only times I’ve heard Atheists admit there’s no way to disprove God is when they’re trying to say God’s a philosophical trick. It’s not the same thing as them saying God may exist. Anyone who acknowledges that God may or may not exist is an Agnostic, not an Atheist.
BillJ-MN said, 6 months ago
@rvernon
You’re operating under a false perception of what an atheist is. Atheists are not required to assert that there absolutely are not deities. There are some who do, and they qualify as atheists, but they don’t define us. For most atheists, it’s simply a matter of fact that we won’t believe in any deities unless we have some good reason to do so. I’ve never seen any convincing (or even suggestive) evidence of the existence of any of the many deities that humans have conjured up. Therefore, I have no reason to consider their existence as being plausible.
rvernon said, 6 months ago
@Keeper 98
One more thing, “Big difference from saying anything you can’t explain is proof of the existence of a superior being” is a mischaracterization of religious faith. The faithful believe that even things that we CAN explain can be evidence of a superior force (“being” is way too small a way to characterize how the faithful see God). There are plenty of ignorant people who do see God the way you seem to think everyone sees God. But that’s because plenty of people on Earth are pretty ignorant… I’d be willing to bet the percentage of ignorant atheists is on par with the percentage of ignorant people of faith – it just doesn’t seem that way because 80% of the country believes in God.
Emlyn
said, 6 months ago
Years ago, my husband was in the hospital for surgery that required an overnight stay. They brought in as a roommate a guy who needed spinal disc surgery. I heard him talking on the phone, and I gathered that he had something really serious on his conscience, and he was therefore terrified of possibly dying during surgery and having to meet his Maker. I found out later that he signed himself out of the hospital in pain rather than risk the surgery.