Chuck Asay by Chuck Asay

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omQ R said, about 1 month ago

Ah, soon you will be like all former colonial powers, nostalgic about that wonderful past when one dominated. Those golden years of world dominance.sniff Brings a tear to my eye…
All because of this mamby-pamby stuff about respecting your fellow man, the rest of the planet and the environment! Now no-one respects you! Oh boo hoo :(

Welcome to the club. I’m omQ R, I’m the son of a former world power, albeit 500 odd years ago; and we, too, hunker for the past, always looking back, never forward.
HUMPHRIES said, about 1 month ago

If you lived through the “good old days” I don’t believe most of of us would like to do so again … as they actually happened.
scottfreitas said, about 1 month ago

There is no single more destructive force in America today than the government schools. They create all these cynical, mocking, arrogant, America-hating Leftists who come here to Asay’s strip each day to call everything that is good “evil”, and everything that is evil “good.”

I specially loathe their smug intolerance towards religion in general and Christianity in particular. They’re so SURE there is no God, that “religion” is all primitive backwards superstition which causes wars etc, when in fact it is THEIR way of thinking which is both primitive and backward and causes wars (their “thinking” far predates Christianity, they seem to forget).

They’re nothing but brainwashed sheep taught to hate God, the Bible, and Christ. They can no more properly understand one paragraph of Scripture than a monkey understands nuclear physics. The book of Romans describes them perfectly, and tells us of their origins, nearly two thousand years before they started sucking in oxygen.

Gotta love it. :/

“Oooh! Oooh! Ooh! Barack Hussein Obama!” Just like little German brownshirts, or Chinese Maoists, or those poor kids in North Korea who are taught to sing hymns to Kim Jong Ill in THEIR government schools…
olfart said, about 1 month ago

Well! This is news. America-hating Leftist thinking predates christianity. This will shake up the science of creationism!
scottfreitas said, about 1 month ago

Not what I said, mocker. Being a public school student, you might want to try some reading comprehension courses.

But the cynical, anti-God “Man is the measure of all things” thinking? Try studying in the Book of Genesis WHY God once destroyed the Earth with a great flood. It describes people no different from today’s Leftists–people whom caused God to basically exclaim, “I regret that I even created Man…”
michael said, about 1 month ago

“I specially loathe their smug intolerance towards religion in general and Christianity in particular. They’re so SURE there is no God, that “religion” is all primitive backwards superstition which causes wars etc, when in fact it is THEIR way of thinking which is both primitive and backward and causes wars (their “thinking” far predates Christianity, they seem to forget).”

The point of not teaching religion in schools is to protect religion, but denigrate it. How in the world could you possibly teach religion in schools when there’s so many religions? What version of Christianity would you teach?

And how could you trust government to teach religion when you don’t trust them with anything else?

In the end its best to let schools teach academics and leave the religious instruction to church and family.
Magnaut said, about 1 month ago

mmm mmm mmm WE’LL ALL BE COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS mmm mmm
scottfreitas said, about 1 month ago

Are those just rhetorical questions, Michael?

Funny how the first Federal document to reference education (the Northwest Ordinance) said in 1787, quote “Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. ”

Notice the order of the words, Mikey? RELIGION, morality, and knowledge? These three things were inextricably linked in the minds of the people who created this country. ALL American schools taught traditional, historical Christianity without any confusion or anti-intellectual mumblings of “Gee, how can we possibly teach this stuff? Especially since all religions are equally valid.”

Christianity is the ONLY religion which impacted the minds of our Founders. They did not play stupid little pretend games, acting as though Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism etc, played any role in either the creation of America or in the laws of its Constitution. Why must people like you be dishonest, and deliberately ignore the facts involved in both the origins and purpose of our country?

ALL American universities–Harvard, Princeton, Yale, you name it–were established by Christians. Jesus and the Bible were part of every student’s life, whether they personally worshipped Jesus as God or not. WHY DOESN’T THIS MATTER TO YOU? Who decided to secularize–remove God from–all of those schools? You ever study WHY and HOW it happened? Because it was a damned dishonest, literally FASCIST process.

Start being intellectually honest and stop playing the part of the typical head-scratching, anti-intellectual post-moden feminized male. It gets tiresome being subjected to it, when one actually appreciates History as FACT, rather than Leftist revisionsist atheist pablum….
johnking said, about 1 month ago

Hey, Wtfall… maybe you shouldn’t be lecturing about dumbing down. The only time the House of Representatives decides a presidential election is when there is a tie in the Electoral College. In 2000 there was never a tie, either before or after the U.S.Supreme Court kept the crooked Florida supreme court from stealing the election for Gore.
parkersinthehouse said, about 1 month ago

there are glimmers of an understanding of Christianity in your posts, but your rabid loathing, the stench of your spew of malevolence and enmity preempt any possible Christian message - i find it impossible to try to sift through it all each time you post and i become nauseous when i try. i can’t read you anymore scott.
scottfreitas said, about 1 month ago

Yes, go read Paul’s writings. I like Paul’s comments aimed towards those who demanded Jewish Christians must be circumcised: “I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!”

What exactly did Jesus say that made people upon occasion want to throw him off cliffs, stone him to death, etc? (and finally got him crucified)

What did all the old testament prophets say that made angry mobs stone them, tear them to pieces, throw them into ovens, feed them to lions etc?

You’re just full of it, basically. You act as though if I said only WHAT you wanted to hear in the EXACT manner you wanted to hear it, maybe you’d consent and let me be a Christian.

i’m neither intimidated nor fooled, nope. :/

PS Who was it who said, “The Truth will set you free… but first it’s going to REALLY piss you off.”
DrCanuck said, about 1 month ago

scottfreitas said: “people whom caused God to basically exclaim, “I regret that I even created Man…”

DrCanuck questions: You worship a god who makes mistakes? Screws up and changes his mind? Gee, if I were religious, I’d want something more than that.
scottfreitas said, about 1 month ago

So stop putting words in God’s mouth. You’re not smart enough.

God didn’t make the mistakes. WE did. He gave us free will; WE used it to willfully make wrong decisons, sinful choices, which eventually caused God to express regret.

I’m not wasting more text on you, Canuck. You don’t think on a deep enough level to even begin to understand God. You don’t WANT to. You want to be your OWN God… as if that were possible.

“As far as the Heavens are above the Earth, so are my thoughts above yours.” –God (as quoted in Scripture)
ezdeb said, about 1 month ago

Scottf, you are ALWAYS putting words in God’s mouth, like his reaction of regret for his creations. What makes you so smart?

Waste some text on that, please. Try not to insult my as you do. It’s a relevant question as to why you feel your opinions about ALL religions and their comparative values makes you able to speak for god.
ncberns said, about 1 month ago

Wow, a bunch of folks who think they have a direct link to God. Even imagine they know what he’s thinking. And the root of all evil is, let’s see, blacks, gays, awareness of global warming and unions…. And, of course, our lack of prayer in school.

And you think THAT’S the cause of America’s current decline…? If it weren’t so painfully ignorant, so sadly oblivious, it would be the funnies thing I’ve read today.

I think you should think a bit harder. Remember what happened the last time you stoned a Jew…?
toasteroven said, about 1 month ago

Hey.

Hey scott.

How do you feel about Tom Paine, again? Or Thomas Jefferson?
Anthony 2816 said, about 1 month ago

Scott believes that our schools should indoctrinate all American children in his religion…and no other.

Correct, Scott?
av8tor said, about 1 month ago

COMRADES….Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated…. Barak Hussein Obama umm umm umm…

Congress is a cesspool of liars, thieves, inside traders, traitors, drunks (one who killed a staffer, yet is still revered), criminals, and other low level swine who, as individuals (not all, but many), will do anything to enhance their lives, fortunes and power, all at the expense of the People of the United States and its Constitution, in order to be continually re-elected.
bikemaster said, about 1 month ago

BROTHER SCOTT!!! The idea of prayer in schools may have been okay when our nation was forming, as there was near-unanimity of belief then. But do not forget that even our greatest founding fathers were not all members of one particular church. Certainly, not all claimed to be “Christians”. Prayers of a generic variety (the only type which could work) are silly, useless wastes of time. It really is up to parents to teach & guide children in the paths of rightiousness.
dtroutma said, about 1 month ago

The myth of prayers in public schools in the “old days” is widespread in certain circles, but a mere myth. Scooter’s knowledge of both true religion and history could be written on the head of a pin, with a sledgehammer. His preaching of hate however, seems universal, and hardly in keeping with anything but his hypocrisy.

Freedom FROM religious persecution IS a noble goal, defended only by rejecting taxpayer supported enforcement of any religious doctrine by the state, which IS the first element of the First Amendment. It is also the purpose of Article Six of the Constitution.
Corosive Frog said, about 1 month ago

Gays or no gays, prayer or no prayer, all superpowers in history declined some day. One who knows history and still thinks one nation is destined to rule the world forever is a fool.

India, Japan, China do not suck up to the christian god and yet they are becoming superpowers. Has God changed the World (more than two billion people involves) just to teach little America (with its quarter of a billion) a lesson?
vhammon said, about 1 month ago

This cartoon appears to be attempting to make points about three issues (prayer in schools, curriculum content, and adulation of a president) and to suggest that if we just prayed in school, the curriculum would be “back to basics” and would not include holding up a sitting president as a role model or other ‘distractions’ like black history or human rights.

Just curious Chuck - Back in the 1980s were you upset when school children wrote and sang songs about President Reagan? Is there a ‘cult of personality” about Reagan? How do you distinguish between admiration for a good man deserving acclaim for accomplishments, and a dangerous ‘cult of personality’?
Obamascares said, about 1 month ago

I don’t remember ever praying to a President in school.

A -men, ah, I mean O -bama
dtriedel said, about 1 month ago

Wow.
HARVIN GWIN said, about 1 month ago

I feel silly scott’s pain and I pray the solipsistic,jealous, blood stained God worshipped by scottfreitas soon ends his terrible agony.Scott’s lord and saviour,a vengeful,murderous sky God hath filled his vacant head with an abiding hatred for anyone who does not share his faith in an ultra-violent,all-knowing being who lives in a golden cloud high above the atmosphere.
Please oh Lord I pray.Deliver your psychotic servant Scott unto your loving arms ASAP!
ahab said, about 1 month ago

dtroutma, ah, a voice of reason as apposed to scottie excreatas’ religious venom and hatred. Asay maybe a little racist as well judging from the implication that a black awareness day and gay awareness are contrasted with supposedly moral values of prayer in school. How many of you remember those same teachers giving a ruler or wooden pointer beating in school? I remember!
harleyquinn said, about 1 month ago

You know I have a problem with a teacher standing up wanting to lead a class in pray. That goes for both left and right dogmas. The top of my list is lefts pet projects like global warming and diversity training. Flawed scientist and lets point out how everyone is different so we can celebrate how they are more spacial then you.
Can anyone point me to a right dogma they want to preach?

Oh and there is no separation of student religion. That is where most go wrong. The separation is where it should be. Teacher to student.
DrCanuck said, about 1 month ago

Scott says: “God didn’t make the mistakes. WE did. He gave us free will; WE used it to willfully make wrong decisons, sinful choices, which eventually caused God to express regret.”

DrCanuck persists: So humans forced God to change his mind? You worship a god that is so weak that humans can force him to change his plans for the world? Your god says “Ooops, I goofed.” Not too omnipotent, huh?
Tigger said, about 1 month ago

I have not heard if they fired the idiot Teacher who was teaching the Children to sing the false praises of Obama.

My God, The Left would have been pooping everywhere demanding any Teacher who dared teach the School Children to Sing the Praises of ‘W’ in this same manner be Fired and never allowed to teach anywhere in this Universe forevermore.
harleyquinn said, about 1 month ago

DrCanuck persists: So humans forced God to change his mind?
So Dr. brain wash would rather debate the existence of God or the application there of in a classroom setting? That is the problem this comic is striving to show. Now like I said I do not want any teacher to tell a student when and how to pray. Back in the day it was praying, now it could be any number of things just to slow down get in the right mind set to learn. After the teacher has control you move on to the basics. Simple to the piont.
But this shows how many different representatives looking over the teacher shoulder wanting to put their own spin on the curriculum. So much so we have lost sight of the basics.
But Dr. brain wash would rather debate how many angles can dance on the head of a pin. and if you do not have his answer he might fail you. Just like the comic if you do not cry and say the gay black polar bear are raciest because they do not support Obama you might fail The teacher told us this you know.
benbrilling said, about 1 month ago

These posts are best dealt with by skipping to the end without reading any of them. The cartoon is bad enough. Sometimes I click on the darnedest things.
Kylop said, about 1 month ago

Chuck, are you saying America was a growing power right up until Obama was elected?

When I was in school there was no prayer. It was also a good 30 years ago. During 8 of those years Reagan was President. Still no prayer in school. What about that period of time?
DrCanuck said, about 1 month ago

Ah, Harleyquinn: I see you too are incapable of defending your own faith and must retreat to name-calling and mindless personal attacks. If your faith had any truth to it, you could discuss that truth. At some level, therefore, you MUST be aware of the fact that your faith is indefensible, and that therefore your beliefs are in vain. Is that why you are so angry?
cdward said, about 1 month ago

Dr.C, my friend, I actually think HQ had a point. When he said that he had “a problem with a teacher standing up wanting to lead a class in pray (sic),” I agreed. The teacher has no business leading a class in prayer in part because I don’t want someone like scott EVER leading my kids in his odious version of faith. And you can bet scott would not like it if a Muslim teacher led the children in prayer. Or a Jew (by the way, there was a Jew – Francis Salvador – in the South Carolina colonial congress. He also died for the revolution).

Where HQ and I part company is in his insistence that what the rest of the world calls science, Harley still wants to call religion.

The topic is pretty big - perhaps if anyone wants to discuss it further they can go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CFSeekers/
harleyquinn said, about 1 month ago

Dr. brainwash
“Ah, Harleyquinn: I see you too are incapable of defending your own faith … If your faith had any truth to it, …. At some level, therefore, you MUST be aware of the fact that your faith is indefensible, and that therefore your beliefs are in vain. Is that why you are so angry?”

very round and around and getting nowhere reasoning you have there. I did not try to defend my faith because you have no idea what my faith is. Just like the teacher can have faith but when it comes to teaching if the teacher is teaching the subject at hand it should not matter. It is the libs who want to insert their socialistic views that have a problem. They want to preach of the demon CO2. They want to make sure you know which orifices other people like to get there rocks off in. They want you to sing praises to a political way of thinking. None of which is teaching the basics or even critical thinking. I think that is what the heart of this strip is getting at.
My truth and faith are only your problem if and when I try to convert you. You throw out your godless beliefs. I just personally just slap them down and do not care.
Angry? You amuse me in a sad way. If I ever took one of your classes you would be the one angered.

oh and cd tell that to the followers of the guy who flunked out of priest school and started his own religion of global warming. The hockey stick is still debunked.
harleyquinn said, about 1 month ago

No one has still answered me as to what Dogmas the right is trying to teach in a government school.
DrCanuck said, about 1 month ago

Oh, hey, cd; I’m in complete agreement with both you and HQ on the matter of school prayer. That issue is concluded.

But my issue now is this: HQ says, “I did not try to defend my faith because you have no idea what my faith is.”

Well, I would LOVE to know what his faith is. So I ask. But his faith is, apparently, so weak and shakey that he doesn’t DARE examine it for fear that it will fall apart.

I’ve asked you several questions about YOUR faith in the past and you have always answered. No fear on your part. And thanks again. I’m still looking for a conservative who is brave enough to do likewise without immediately running away, changing the subject, or calling me names.
NoFearPup said, about 1 month ago

Dr. Canuck, God reserves to pull whatever coals out of the fire he wishes…Because he has a PERFECT SON who demonstrated HE was God’s Son. That makes Him a success; and yes even though every other man/woman fails He gets to play out His plan to HIS perfection. He paid the price for our screw ups. This is possible because He is a merciful as well as the perfect God. I’ve already told you to read the Book of John and read for yourself who God says He is: I am the Bread of Life, the Living Water; the True Vine; The Good Shepherd; I am the Gate; I am the Truth, the Life , and the Way.

Scott Freitas your delivery sucks in several ways; although you do appear to be aware of the Truth. My advice is to ignore Dr. Canuck and other provokers here- they have no real desire to know the truth, ; I think they just want to belittle Christians for sport. Or you may want to possibly go to cdward’s site on yahoo to discuss religion with fellow travelers and non-travelers that post there. (I’m thinking about doing it too - but I haven’t made up my mind.) Otherwise, peace to you.
scottfreitas said, about 1 month ago

The problem with most posters here is the “Me Generation” mentality which has existed since the 60’s. A mentality which considers History as beginning only on the day THEY were born. With the past being somehow irrelevent, unimportant, filled only with inferior men and inferior ideas.

Christianity alone–no other religion–motivated, shaped, inspired, and was inculcated in America both before, during, and after its Founding.

It is blatant bigotry and discrimination AGAINST Christians to deny, downplay, and denigrate the enormous contributions and sacrifices made by Christians in connection with America’s very existence.

It is sickening how people today use government schools to play up homosexuals, and other religions, and any and all cultural beliefs OTHER THAN the ones which were uniquely and distinctly American.

America came into existence because of the Christian worldview. It was and is the beliefs of Christianity which made both our Declaration of Independence and Constitution a reality.

Now Christians and Christianity are mocked, reviled, excluded, censored, and denigrated ceaselessly in connection with public schools. Supreme irony, given American public schools and public schooling were first and foremost a CHRISTIAN concept, created and funded and staffed solely by Christians.

The so-called Left is guilty of cultural genocide against Christians. You lie about us, steal all of our creations, and then do everything to exclude ONLY us from playing any role in the public square. You silence and shut us out of education, politics, the news media–everywhere you possibly can. And it’s getting old.

It was Christians who got sick of King George and fought the American Revolution. Keep making war on us in our own country like you are, and do not be surprised if–once we accept that even the electoral process has been hopelessly stolen by ACORN and others–we decide to fight another Revolution.
harleyquinn said, about 1 month ago

Dr. brain wash
“Well, I would LOVE to know what his faith is. So I ask. But his faith is, apparently, so weak and shakey that he doesn’t DARE examine it for fear that it will fall apart.”

Or how about I am so firm in my faith that I do not have to go out and challenge others to prove myself. I do not “preach” my faith as you do. I just live it. To bad you are so shaky in your own. I will pray for you.
harleyquinn said, about 1 month ago

Dr. Brain wash
“Oh, hey, cd; I’m in complete agreement with both you and HQ on the matter of school prayer. That issue is concluded.”
funny I call you dr. brain wash because you were bragging how you planned on in doctoring incoming freshmen with your godless beliefs. Yet you agree with me that teachers should not be preachers? I am now confused?
Anthony 2816 said, about 1 month ago

With his usual ignorance, Scott says, “Christianity alone–no other religion–motivated, shaped, inspired, and was inculcated in America both before, during, and after its Founding.”

Scott apparently doesn’t know that we’re a federation of states, a democratic republic, and have the first amendment. We have a three-branch government with checks and balances. NONE of which is from his bible.

Or maybe I’m making the error…assuming Scott is talking about the U.S.A.?
Anthony 2816 said, about 1 month ago

Notice how Scott doesn’t answer replies to his comments?

Just for fun, let’s try again:

Scott believes that our schools should indoctrinate all American children in his religion…and no other.

Correct, Scott?
johnking said, about 1 month ago

Wtfallxxxx, you talk about the 2000 election being “in question” without resolution of the Florida vote. What on earth does that have to do with any provision in the Constitution? To allow the House to decide the election would have been blatantly unconstitutional, since that document doesn’t even hint at giving the House that authority. Can’t you read elementary English?
Anthony 2816 said, about 1 month ago

It was amusing to watch (on The Daily Show this week) a clip of Laura Bush leading school children in singing praises to Bush for his pitiful response to hurricane Katrena…and yet not of the self-righteous hypocritical righties complained about “indoctrinating” the children at all.
scottfreitas said, about 1 month ago

hey anthony: “My” religion is the one–the ONLY one–which made America’s existance possible. “My” religion is the one whose writings–the Bible–were quoted by our Founders more often than any other single written work. “My” religion is the one cited in the 1892 Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States supreme court case which emphatically stated, quote:

“No purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any legislation, state or national, because this is a religious people. This is historically true. From the discovery of this continent to the present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation.

There is no dissonance in these declarations. There is a universal language pervading them all, having one meaning. They affirm and reaffirm that this is a religious nation. These are not individual sayings, declarations of private persons. They are organic utterances. They speak the voice of the entire people.

If we pass beyond these matters to a view of American life, as expressed by its laws, its business, its customs, and its society, we find every where a clear recognition of the same truth. Among other matters, note the following: the form of oath universally prevailing, concluding with an appeal to the Almighty; the custom of opening sessions of all deliberative bodies and most conventions with prayer; the prefatory words of all wills, “In the name of God, amen;” the laws respecting the observance of the Sabbath, with the general cessation of all secular business, and the closing of courts, legislatures, and other similar public assemblies on that day; the churches and church organizations which abound in every city, town, and hamlet; the multitude of charitable organizations existing every where under Christian auspices; the gigantic missionary associations, with general support, and aiming to establish Christian missions in every quarter of the globe. These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation.”

PS Christianity has a TRIUNE God. God is three distinct Persons melded into one. Our Founders created three branches of government based on these three aspects of God: Lawgiver (Congress), King (Executive), and Judge (Courts).

Again, if public schools didn’t censor this, you’d know it. Because the original primary source documents still exist. But public schools in k-12 allow HOW many original, primary-source documents to be read and examined and debated??? Out of more than half a MILLION?
NoFearPup said, about 1 month ago

Perhaps, “sucks” was too strong a word…I apologize scottF. I’m shutting my mouth now…
Loco80 said, about 1 month ago

AnthonyBimbo, you assume that the rest of us have no life and can respond immediately. That applies only to you.
DrCanuck said, about 1 month ago

HQ says: “funny I call you dr. brain wash because you were bragging how you planned on in doctoring incoming freshmen with your godless beliefs. Yet you agree with me that teachers should not be preachers? I am now confused?”

DrCanuck agrees, wholeheartedly: Yes, you are confused. I never state my beliefs in class, godless or otherwise. A science or philosophy class is no place for beliefs, mine or others. I agree, teachers should not be preachers.

Now, what could possibly be confusing about that? How can you be confused when I’m agreeing with you, unless you don’t understand your own position?
harleyquinn said, about 1 month ago

Funny you are the one that is confused and bragged how he was going to get all those freshmen at the beginning of the year to question their beliefs Doc? So what does that make you a person who brags and never does or worse yet a hypocrite in do as I say not as I do. If you run your class room the way you talk in this playground of a chat room then well take a look at the second panel you might spot yourself in there.