Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling

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  1. cabrobst

    cabrobst said, about 16 hours ago

    That bit of nonsense that God only helps those who helps themselves is NOT in the Bible. The fact is, his help is free and available to anyone who asks and often to those who don’t ask. And anyhow, death is not the worst that could happen to you.

  2. DavidDow

    DavidDow said, about 14 hours ago

    There is no god, of course, which is part of the point of this cartoon, and I’m not sure that anyone can tell what is “the worst”.

  3. Dmajor

    Dmajor said, about 14 hours ago

    That’s the Readers Digest God, the one who rescues the survivors who come home and write about My Most Terrifying Ordeal for Readers Digest. The poor saps who actually died were obviously praying wrong.

    Death may not be the worst thing, but watching your children burn up in a fire or drown slowly in the middle of the ocean, or get tortured and slaughtered by crazed ethic-cleansing squads, those’d count as pretty bad and maybe even close to “worst”. Fortunately Super God Man never lets that happen.

  4. tsarantos

    tsarantos said, about 13 hours ago

    The worst is not so long as we can say “This is the worst”.

  5. nighthawks

    nighthawksGenius_badge said, about 13 hours ago

    now show innocent victims of nazi death camps begging for the mercy of god as they are gassed to death……

    oh well, bad luck for them, god has his plan, right?

  6. tpenna

    tpennaGenius_badge said, about 12 hours ago

    Probably very few of us here can grasp the matter of righteous anger with God fully. I recommend two works by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel: Night and The Trial of God. This man’s exploration into the theodicy problem (or, the problem of evil) is stunning.

    Both of these are narratives, so they don’t present an exposition of the problem itself. For that, I might recommend Paul Ricoeur’s Evil: A Challenge to Philosophy and Theology.

  7. Ushindi

    UshindiGenius_badge said, about 5 hours ago

    Now remember, God is all- merciful, all-loving, and just loves the heck out of little children, so I doubt there were ever any innocent victims killed in Nazi death camps, or little children raped, tortured and killed in the Serbian ethnic cleansing. No children or other innocent victims killed in Muslim suicide bombings either. I mean, God wouldn’t allow it, right? Right?

    (I LOVE God-Man)