Rob Rogers for July 09, 2013

Perfect parallels.

Good toon for simpletons and 3rd graders.

IF they were the same, most of Washington would have been beheaded a long time ago!!

Given that many states are trying to remove reproductive rights and kill Planned Parenthood (which spends the vast majority of its time providing healthcare to pregnant women who cannot afford their own, not just providing abortions), have tried to impose “Judeo-Christian standards” (a term used solely by Christians) on the populace) in the laws, have tried to make it easier for people to go to religious schools which only teach creationism rather than science, etc., etc., yes, these two groups have more in common than most would like to admit.I grew up in the South, where there were sects (and religious schools) that required women to wear full-length skirts and three-quarter length sleeves and forbade “mixed bathing” (that’s “swimming” to most people) not only to its students but to its staff members — even those who did not share the religious beliefs.How is that different, pray tell?

When the religion is more important than the God it worships…^http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0zIv2I37UU^From the book of Matthew – 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”^In another section, we are told what ‘charity/love’ is.1 Corinthians 13:4.^I’ve only read two chapters of the Quo’ran, but it is my understanding from conversations with Muslims that there are similar verses within that book as well.^If you can’t do a thing in an honorable and ethical fashion, it should not be done. If you can’t do something in the name, and the exercise, of Love, it cannot be done in the name of the God of Abraham who is the God of Jews, Christians, & Muslims.^At least atheists have an excuse for behaving like the men in the cartoon, but most of the atheists I know are more tolerant and compassionate than those who claim to be ‘believers.’Respectfully,C.

The religions are different. But the right is still trying to impose their particular interpretation of Christianity on everyone through the law.

There are so many parallels between the GOP’s Christian Right and the Muslim Brotherhood that a single panel can’t possibly cover them all. A graphic novel might, though.

Some really good cartoons today.

This would apply to either party. They don’t care about the will of the people, only about their power. the problem is that we don’t look at the faults of those people that we vote for, only the other party, thus giving them carte blanche to do as they please.

I have agreed with what the ignorant Liberals label “religious right” since the 1960s.-This cartoon comes from a biased mind and its cheer section comes from biased minds, ignorant of TRUTH. We are Conservative of our Founders’ system. We want it restored.We do not seek to “ignore the will of the people”…that is the property of Liberal/Left and done in fact by the current administration and the Democratic Congress in the last 5 years.-It is not the “right” that circumvents the courts. It is Obama’s DOJ now the department of Injustice, and the habit of circumventing congress by executive orders and agency rewrites of “rules”….-“Impose radical religious rule” is a 100% devilish lie when applied to Christian conservatives. The “radical religious rule” has been imposed by atheists for decades. Gallup polls prove this….the majority of the people have viewpoints and convictions of principle that are stomped on and ridiculed by the Leftist MSM and by the entire Democratic Party.-I am tired of this situation created by “liberal” intolerance.I will not riot, I will leave Vengeance to my Lord, the God of the Bible, who has the Final Say.

Not the “religious people” just those on the religious extreme right. That is exactly what the Muslim Brotherhood is to the Muslim world.

At least you are fortunate to have the job that allows you enough money to pay for your health care. Remember 40% of Americans do not! And don’t go and say they spend it on booze and cigarettes. That only would show your ignorance of the American people.

Don’t forget that those who propose a “Christian Rule” would be denying one of the primary points made by many from the Christian Right – ‘Separation of Church and State’. Why do you think the writers of the Constitution put it in there!?

“THAT is what YOU really think the religious people in the US are like?”.It’s what the Kool Aid tells them to think.

What I find interesting is that the Quran honors Jesus more accurately than today’s evangelicals, or the “religious right”. (especially those determined to wage religious war on Islam through our “state” military) Granted, that like those same “religious right” here, the extremist “religious right” in Muslim states also pretty much ignore, or distort, the original teachings of their “faith”.

Sirhc Nosredna said, about 3 hours ago

“Don’t forget that those who propose a “Christian Rule” would be denying one of the primary points made by many from the Christian Right – ‘Separation of Church and State’. Why do you think the writers of the Constitution put it in there!?”

-please give Constitution Article and Section that says there must be “separation of Church and State”…..it ain’t there!-But Amendment1 says “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF; or abridging the freedom of speech….” (this gives 100% freedom to private religions and to citizens who claim a religious faith, and it Prevents the Government from interference of our Right to assemble, to speak, to publish, to conduct public rallies, to advertise the Gospel in full and to put displays in public that symbolize Bible events and God’s Law, including the “10 Commandments”….)-Our first congresses and federal government openly displayed Christianity on Public properties and in Congress, and used public money to teach Gospel to Indians and to print the first American Bible. I wish we had government officials like them in today’s world, when we need it even more than they did because we face more evil now.They didn’t have to oppose abortion and legalized sodomy.

The story of Abraham and Isaac is probably one instance of a widely distributed Mediterranean tale type — the other well known instance is the story of Agamemnon’s sacrifice of Iphigenia. People use these stories for various reasons. One interpretation — I’m not saying this is the right one, or the only right one — is that the story of Abraham and Isaac reflects the end of human sacrifice in ancient Hebrew culture.+God said to Abraham, kill me a son,Abe said, God you must be putting me on.God said No, Abe said What?God said you can do what you want Abe butThe next time you see me coming you better runAbe said Where do you want this killing doneGod said down on Highway Sixty-One

Do you believe that Islamic brotherhood was going out and shooting schoolgirls.

As fun as anecdotes are, they are not productive.

As for schooling one could look at the more extreme examples in either case. the main protest here is against the attempt to use freedom of religion as a way to circumvent anything that may remove religious based laws

Uh, what about Abraham’s treatment of Ishmael? That really cemented the “family unit”!

They are 2 peas in a pod.

“…THAT is what YOU really think the religious people in the US are like? "I do not think that about all religious people in the US.The ‘toon shows a man wearing a hat that says "GOP’ and a shirt that says “Religious Right”.

I do think it applies to “Religious Right” people in the US. I know, work with, and am related to a number of Jews, Roman Catholics, Protestants, Lutherans, and Pastafarians who can handle the will of the people even if its different than their own will. Accept court rulings they don’t like and work within the system to correct them. None of these people want religious rule.

For Guy Parker, ConserveGov, and others who are having trouble seeing the analogy: The only (and I mean only) reason that christians today appear to be behaving slightly better than muslims is that they no longer have the political power to impose their theocracy on the rest of us. Give them that power, and, well, you might like to read the history of the church (inquisitions, pogroms, the KKK, ad infinitum; it has not ended even today). We aren’t being interrogated by the inquisition today not because christianity is better than islam (there is very little difference between these two avatars of the western sky-god religion), but because of the very hard-won separation of church and state built into the constitution and laws of America by the largely deistic and non-religious founding fathers, along with the progressive secularization of society. The religious wrong would like to remove those freedoms and take society back to the middle ages.

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