Birdbrains by Thom Bluemel for May 06, 2010

The bigger one wins?!

Good Morning Thom and Everyone!

I see faces on the beard and hair of Peter.

Halo, everybody, Halo…”

Okay, sorry if you get multiple posts, but this happened yesterday too – I see HTML, you see the post after I’ve gone to bed!

But if you dress to kill, well then…………

Maybe there should be?

On the contrary: “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall”

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That’s an angel with Bling!!

Halo is the shampoo that beautifies your hair, So Halo everybody, Halo.

I only know that cause my Granny used to sing it.

How old DO you think I am?

There are no faces There are no faces There are no faces. LONEWOLF owns the psychiatric hospital There are no faces

I don’t know…Lucifer got kicked out because he was thinking too mighty of himself…just saying. (((Thom)))

Lots of duplicated posts today.

Halo to all& may all your halos be the same size.

Kogoin

FLAGGED

And jordaner021 also!

I’ll bet that he really lights up a room upon entry.

Lewreader,

I think it’s “Halo is the shampoo that GLORIFIES your hair…”

Lew doesn’t believe but believes in commenting, rofts. Don’t we all? I guess that messes with all our halos. :0)

To support Joe: this is typical comics level theology from the myths circulated by a CERTAIN church who blended legends with the Christian reality to come up with a very inaccurate but pagan-popular system.

Some corrections: 1) No old man in heaven. God is Spirit, father in sense of creator. 2) No humans as angels. Armstrong, “Touched by..” and other media mistakes notwithstanding. 3) We spend eternity in fleshly resurrection on a refreshed and fire cleansed earth and in orbit of it in a perfect cubic city. Would have been hard to conceive of that in the early ADs so we got the spiritualized notion of heavenly occupants. 4) Satan doesn’t rule in Hell. Ruins a lot of good jokes, but just not true.

Further proof of wings in heaven! Thanks Thom for clearing things up for all of us!

I LOVE those wings. The supersized halo is a bit much tho’ and probably not comfortable.

Another tradition: the halo is a transformed nimbus (of light) that rests on the person. I imagine the original was rather like a spotlight of grace shining on the saint, but in iconography it was represented as a circle (or sphere) of brightness around the head, which later became a ring of light, and then was rotated so it was flat.

However, it’s only a problem for those who do not understand symbolic language, and insist on literal interpretations.

Ummm…….. This is Birdbrains!!!! If you disagree be Offended!

I am Offended that people are using ‘halo’ to say ‘hello’!

I am Offended that someone assumed the other angel was once human!

I am Very Offended that spam was posted on the strip! I am happy that it was gone before I saw it.

I am Offended that Doc’s avatar scares me!

I am Offended that people try to ruin the humor by edgamicating other commentors!

I am Offended that the angels aren’t prettier!

I am Offended that LuvH8 posted such a long comment!!

Have A Good Day!!!

So, all in all, you’re no more offended than you usually are, LuvH8

I offended I didn’t think of this before “You say halo and I say Good Bye…”

You say Halo,I say Hoola Hoop!

He’s got such a big head, the halo has to be larger to fit it, and the wings have to be bigger to support the weight.

shytimes2 - (turning bright red) Thank you. I really liked your “Halo-er than thou” comment.

Joe ~ Come on be offended and offensive. It’s Fun!!!

Hi Grog ~ That song …….. (shakes head)

I have to insert one clarification, and I hope you’ll pardon its length and frankness. I don’t know where freeholder1 got the idea that (the late Herbert W.) Armstrong taught that humans become angels after death. On the contrary, since the 1950’s he and his heirs have taught that humans can become higher than angels - in fact, Sons of God in the future, just as Jesus Christ is the Son of God now.

Mr. Armstrong insisted that the real Christian God is not a Trinity, but a Family - a Family (presently the Father and the Son) into which human beings can be born spiritually (thanks to the multi-faceted and even personified, but not personal, Holy Spirit). These days I like to borrow the phrase from Romans 1 that’s applied to Jesus Christ now: “Sons of God in Power”.

Mr. Armstrong also insisted - as does the Bible - that no one has gone up to heaven (let alone down to an ever-burning hell) but He who came down from heaven. As far as the Bible goes, no former humans are running around with halos (of any size) or wings up there, Rather, the original biblical faith, and that of even Catholicism at least as late as Justin Martyr, was in a series of resurrections from the dead, beginning when Jesus Christ returns to earth.

All that said, as always I can laugh at Chief Thom Thom’s wry humor. Human myth, human foibles. Why not?