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  1. Ken Warren

    Ken Warren said, 18 days ago

    To quote the Penguin “Hoy Moly!” I don’t know what this is all about but I love the woman’s punch line.

    It looks like a good English cartoons from the 50’s.

    I don’t see how this can be turned to Liberal/Conservative, or Obama/Health Care, or even Balloon Boy/Lost Pilots, but I am sure someone will try.

    I’ll just call it a fun cartoon and leave it at that.

  2. comYics

    comYics said, 18 days ago

    Does that plaque say, St Freddie in the fields Episcopal Church?

    I agree that the cartoon looks neat. Though I cant make sense of it quite yet.

  3. tudza2

    tudza2 said, 17 days ago

    Well, I knew that the Pope had made offers to allow members of the Anglican church en mass to mass, so to speak, reversing the work of good King Henry VIII.

    As I understand it, Episcopalians are off-shoots of the Anglican church when the USA split with England. How can you have Anglicans in the USA if the head of the Anglican church is the king after all?

    Apparently it’s all about Anglicans that want stricter church rules, like no gays and women priests etc.

  4. Ronshua

    RonshuaGenius_badge said, 17 days ago

    Tell it all to Jan Hus .

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hus

  5. Jase99

    Jase99 said, 17 days ago

    I’m told that during the turbulent 1960’s my mother started dating a black guy because she thought it bothered her mother. When I asked my grandmother, she explained to me “It didn’t bother me that he was black. But d@mmit, he was a Catholic!”

  6. cdward

    cdward said, 17 days ago

    The pope did make an offer to ease restrictions on Anglicans who are disaffected. The issues are essentially women and gays at the altar. Although the Episcopal Church (USA) is fully Anglican, it is organized differently than the Church of England, so the offer will have less impact here. Reactionary Episcopalians have largely already left for special provinces in African or South American Anglican churches.

    The offer is geared more toward England where parishes cannot align with other provinces (it is a state church). It will be interesting to see how this plays out since the pope, as the head of one state is technically interfering with the domain of another head of state, the Queen who officially the head of the Church of England.

  7. scottfreitas

    scottfreitasGenius_badge said, 17 days ago

    The Episcopal Church USA is no more Christian than Osama bin Laden.

    You can’t turn your back on the Bible, ignore all the foundational principles of Christianity, and embrace secular far-left cultural precepts like homosexual “marriage”, women priests, and of course the most apostate and Satanic principle of all, the idea that homosexuals can be priests, actually LEAD CHURCHES, and expect the bulk of Christendom to do anything other than reel back in horror and revulsion.

    I am sick to DEATH of people so brain-dead, so arrogant, that they will ignore the entirety of the New Testament, ALL the writings of the Apostle Paul–the Apostle chosen by Jesus to preach to the Gentiles, meaning US, good old former European barbarians–as well as the writings of Peter, the book of Revelation, etc, simply because they are so sickly obsessed with engaging in sodomy against their fellow man.

    You CANNOT redefine Christianity. ANY of you. NO ONE can. You either accept it as it has always been, for 2000 years, or you can literally go to Hell. For as the Bible warns: “Do not be deceived, God can not be mocked…”

    What part of “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and FOREVER” don’t all those sodomy-obsessed vampires understand???

  8. hintzy

    hintzy said, 17 days ago

    And Scott, I’m weary of people who sow intolerance and hatred. Why is it so terrible, so revolting, for someone to be different from you? I’ve thought and thought about it and I really just can’t understand your point of view. I’ve read the same Bible as you, and it taught me to be open-minded and accept people for who they are. I know you’re going to tear me apart for saying that. I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree…

  9. BOB HASTY

    BOB HASTYGenius_badge said, 17 days ago

    Hey Scott,
    I see you haven’t read the Sermon on the Mount yet! By the way, if you review what Jesus had to say about the REAL sin of Sodom, you might not want to use that metaphor anymore.
    Now, for therapy, Scott, please do the following:


    1. Shout: STOP!! STOP!! STOP!!

    2. Read Philippians 4:4-9 out loud.

    3. Repeat steps 1 & 2 every time that “log” in your eye distorts your vision!

    Note: I led a choir in an Orthodox Synagogue for 30 years. This works for Jews too!!

  10. cartwrights

    cartwrightsGenius_badge said, 17 days ago

    I think it’s “St. Produce in the Fields.”

    And I agree with Hintzy.

  11. Simon_Jester

    Simon_Jester said, 17 days ago

    scott….I’ve seen you post some flaming hypocrisy here, but this time you topped yourself.

    What are you doing right now, but insisting Christianity can ONLY be defined in the way you see it? And anyone who feels otherwise is brain-dead.

    Jesus said the the second of the greatest commandments was to love thy neighbor as thyself….while the only thing spewing out of YOUR keyboard every time you post, is hatred for your neighbors. ( Yes they are….parable of the Good Samaritan )

    Jesus preached humility ( parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector )….while YOU’RE about as humble as the average peacock. Again and again, belittling anyone who doesn’t see things your way as brain dead, ignorant, or whatever.

    And yet you rant about OTHERS ignoring the New Testament? You wouldn’t knew Jesus if you walked into Him.

    But that’s okay…He never knew YOU either.

    Or that’s what He’s going to tell you one day/

  12. Elizabeth

    Elizabeth said, 17 days ago

    The comic is brilliant as it shows both an angry and peaceful reaction to religious policy that we see here in these very comments to the strip. The Bible taught me to love God with my whole being and my neighbour as myself so I guess I’ll be with the Women’s Auxiliary… :)

  13. Kylop

    Kylop said, 17 days ago

    I like this one. I can see it happening in many places. All of it. In addition I can see no one learning from it. Its a great piece for a cartoon.

  14. JPBecker

    JPBecker said, 17 days ago

    I agree with Ken on this one. People get too uptight when it comes to religion.

  15. deadheadzan

    deadheadzanGenius_badge said, 17 days ago

    Poor Colonel Ponsby, obviously an English Episcopalian of the Old School.

  16. Cpt. Jay

    Cpt. Jay said, 17 days ago

    Very David Low, but if the Anglicans want it, let them have it…in abundance.

  17. Dmajor

    Dmajor said, 17 days ago

    I didn’t think ol ScottF would poke his bleeep into this one, but there he is! Scotty, I think you might be moving along the Nutbar Scale from “living-in-momma’s-basement” to “isolated-cabin-in-the-hills”.

    Anyway, thanks for the warnings about sodomy. Do you worry about it a lot? All the time?

  18. Ronshua

    RonshuaGenius_badge said, 17 days ago

    Mar 9:39 And יהושע said, “Do not forbid him, for no one who works a miracle in My Name is able to readily speak evil of Me.
    Mar 9:40 “For he who is not against us is for us.
    Mar 9:41 “For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in My Name, because you are of Messiah, truly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward.

  19. annamargaret1866

    annamargaret1866 said, 17 days ago

    I think it’s Freddie too.

    People get upset about religion because no religion can prove it’s the right religion, although that doesn’t stop at least some of them from trying. It’s faith, not fact, and people get really, really torqued when their faith is questioned.

  20. cartwrights

    cartwrightsGenius_badge said, 17 days ago

    Yeah, it is “Freddie,” on taking a closer look.

  21. dtroutma

    dtroutma said, 17 days ago

    What would Jesus smoke??? I think Scooters been doing too much “product testing” in anticipation?

    For anyone claiming to be “Christian” to be full of hate is well, total hypocrisy. Even though Jesus did say he came not to bring peace, but with a sword, he did teach tolerance, and yes love.

    Religion is quite sadly turning into a soap opera, with shallow thinking, and a rather blind audience.

  22. scottfreitas

    scottfreitasGenius_badge said, 17 days ago

    Yeah, y’all lying lunatics throwing fits at me for condemning homosexuality just keep on making the case that homosexuality is FINE with God. That all the condemnation of homosexuality we see in both the old and new Testaments means NOTHING.

    This is more proof as to how degenerate some people are. They so elevate homosexuality that they will defend it at all costs against ANYTHING. Even God Himself…

    Yeah, God was just having a bad hair day when he destroyed Sodom. Yeah, Paul’s writings can all be ignored. Yeah, we’ll apply ALL modern day secular standards to the Bible, and curse and spit at people who defend orthodox Christianity. Tell them THEY’RE going to Hell, THEY’YRE not Christians, because the Bible is all about accepting and defending homosexuality, feminism, and the entire Demoncrat Party platform. You BET.

    To all of you who want to make the case that Jesus and the Bible defend and approve of homosexuality, feminism, etc, I say to you what you deserve to hear:

    The Lord rebuke you!

    To Simon Jester in particular: You just go right on, demon, claiming that YOU are God, and that I should ignore Scripture and listen to YOU. Your fury because someone dared condemn homosexual behavior speaks volumes about where YOUR heart is…

  23. Corosive Frog

    Corosive Frog said, 17 days ago

    Man, Am I glad I’m not of any of the Abrahamic religions anymore. There are scores of good jews, muslims and christians (starting with the nuns that founded most of the acadian hospitals in my province), but they are overshadowed by the scottfrietas of this world, with whom most sane people would rather go to Hell (litterally) than be associated with.

    turns politically sorrect switch off
    Okay, for starters, all three are rabbidly against idolatry becaus God can’t be contained in any physical thing…makes sense so far. But they go in so far as to throw the entire world into a war because they all want a mount where a temple once stood (maybe). A hill is a hill, not a god, okay?

    Islam is the most anti-idolatry of them all, some of them even riot and kill because somebody drew Mohammad and yet they worship a rock in Meccah. Sorry, but that doesn’t seem very logic to me.

    Hardcore zionist jews (ie, the State of Israel, not all jews) use the suffering of their people as a guilt trip to the rest of the World everytime they want to legitimize another war…

    Roman Catholicism has a history so rotten to the core with greed, and genocide, and control over the masses that now it is hard to believe the pope when he says “WE’re good people now, we are not doing anything for temporal gratification anymore”.

    And protestant christianism…It is built on threats of hell and rapture. Swarming with televangelists saying we need to buy their book to avoid Hell and be ready for The Grand Finale. It’s not unlike the pope selling indulgences back in the 1500’s.

    All in all, All three of those religions (well, its most extremist elements) narrow down their entire spiritual lives, the fate of their souls, to a political agenda.

  24. Anthony 2816

    Anthony 2816Genius_badge said, 17 days ago

    So Scott bases his seething hatred of other people based on ancient biblical mythology.

    Do you also therefore hate people who work on Sunday, who eat shellfish, get haircuts, and women who wear clothes made of two types of cloth, Scott?

    Or do you just use the bible in a lame attempt at justifying your hatred only against the people you really enjoy hating?

    Oh, and try and get a clue: I don’t “make the case that homosexuality is fine” with your god because your god is nothing more than an ancient mythology. I don’t believe in your god any more than you believe in all the other thousands of gods man has invented.

    Homosexuality is fine because it doesn’t hurt anyone, and it’s been around at least as long as recorded history. People like you who hate one person for loving another are the problem.

  25. nerual53

    nerual53Genius_badge said, 17 days ago

    RRRRIINNNGGG….Hello, 911 what is your emergency.
    Yes, I’d like to report a psychopath on the loose.
    Do you know the name of person?
    Yes, his name is scottfreitas and he has a severe personality disorder. He can cause severe bodily injury to people who don’t think as he does. He has also been known to torture puppies. Please alert the FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, and the Pope. This person should NOT be allowed to roam freely in AMERICA. Please help us…Quickly!

  26. Anthony 2816

    Anthony 2816Genius_badge said, 17 days ago

    Plus no matter what the topic of the cartoon, he, like Striper, invariably turns the discussion to his preoccupation with homosexuality.

  27. Atma

    Atma said, 17 days ago

    Uh, scott, Paul never met Jesus. Uh, no, he didn’t. How do I know? Well he was from present day Turkey, for one thing, and he was going around killing christians to start off his career, for another, which weren’t getting knocked off until after Jesus left, and he was born much later, and he certainly wasn’t one of the original 12 apostles. You really should verify before believing.

  28. oldlegodad

    oldlegodadGenius_badge said, 17 days ago

    Atma How about the road to Damascus? Most Paul’s epistles were written BEFORE the Gospels. Refute that please?

  29. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, 17 days ago

    Getting back to the cartoon…Pope Benedict is recruiting priests specifically from the Anglicans. Those who object to ordaining women or marrying gays.
    Note the irony here – Anglican priests can marry. There have been a few married priests already who transferred from the Episcopalians, but we’re talking about having priests with wives and children suddenly becoming full Catholic priests – while the rest still have to maintain celibacy. Benedict would rather have married priests than women priests. He’s also reached out to the radical right-wingers – you know, the Holocaust deniers – though he won’t give them bishoprics, he’ll accept them as pastors!
    It makes me want to invoke the Jewish/Catholic combined prayer: Oy vey, Maria!

  30. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, 17 days ago

    an intersting note, I found this out as a student of Christ’s Word: When God “hates” somebody it is not with the “murderous” hatred that fallen Man frequently feels for his fellow man. (This is actually the Spirit of Murder as denoted in the “sermon on the Mount”). It is with the full weight of judgement and LOVE for his creatures that God has declared Sin as Sin. No one will will make it to God’s Kingdom who hates their brother.

    Also, Cor Frog - i believe that you are putting the cart before the horse in this instance: no one will be justified before God by their own good works.
    Furthermore, scottfrito, although he may need to take on more of the WALK of Christ in order to righteously make pronouncements against Sin as he does( I don’t know for sure), I do believe he speaks the truth about Sin; and if a man claims to be “tolerant” and more capable of rendering right judgements than another man; this same person will realize that truth is not necessarily to be judged by the character of the messenger, but by the truth itself. Otherwise, you may be held to the same standard you are holding ScottFrito to.
    Thank you.

  31. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, 17 days ago

    NamelessOne ; you are such an unhappy bitter soul you have nothing better to do than argue with people using arguments and topics you know nothing about:
    “Do you also therefore hate people who work on Sunday, who eat shellfish, get haircuts, and women who wear clothes made of two types of cloth, Scott?”
    All food was declared “clean” by a vision from Christ to Peter. Further, Christ through his anointed messenger Paul, preached that ceremonial rules of covenant Israel are not applicable to Gentile Christians. To “live under the Law” was something Paul fought against Peter about in the early days of the Christian Church of Judea.

  32. Jase99

    Jase99 said, 17 days ago

    Are we really to believe Scott is anything more than a Stephen Colbert type farce? I’m still not convinced.

    In any case, “good Christians” are quick to rebuke homosexuality yet they also flagrantly ignore much of God’s laws. The same book that condemns homosexuals also demands the death penalty for wearing clothing made of blended fibers such as a cotton/poly blend. Women /must/ cover their hair when they’re ouside, lest someone cut it off as commanded by God. Men, however, must /never/ wear hats as it is direct insult to God himself. You’re forbidden to consume shellfish and your forbidden to so much as touch a dead pig let alone eat one. When’s the last time anyone has paid a priest to sacrifice a goat as penance for their sins as also commanded by God?? Finally, let’s not forget that no one… NO ONE honors the Sabbath Year as commanded by God.

    The self proclaimed “good Christians” of the world really need to be nicer to the gays. Breaking God’s laws as they do, “real Christians” will be spending all of eternity in Hell along with those sinning homosexuals.

    Frog, I mostly with your assessment, but would add to your assessment of the Catholic Church. They have spent and continue to spend a massive amount of money on construction and upkeep of their palaces of marble and gold, expensive art work, and luxurious silken robes. They live in luxury while their followers in Africa starve to death.

  33. Anthony 2816

    Anthony 2816Genius_badge said, 17 days ago

    Yeah, yeah, pick-and-choose, Puppy. You’re not alone in that approach to your bible.

    For instance, from what you said to C.Frog about good works, I see you’re ignoring these verses:

    James 2:24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

    Also see Matt 19:16-21 to read Jesus’ approach on using good works to get into heaven.

    (Heh…I should save this quote of yours for the next time you decide to teach us about evolution! “you are such an unhappy bitter soul you have nothing better to do than argue with people using arguments and topics you know nothing about”)

  34. ahab

    ahabGenius_badge said, 17 days ago

    kvetching abounds mechugas! Excuse my gentile assassination of Yiddish phraseology. I love the raised cane Mr Oliphant. One good gesture deserves another,eh!

  35. teslagirl

    teslagirlGenius_badge said, 16 days ago

    The history of the episcopal church in this country isn’t always pretty–at the time Jacob Riis wrote “How the Other Half Lives”(1890), the episcopal church was the biggest slumlord in America. And that’s when slums really were slums and apartments didn’t necessarily have to offer windows or ventilation. Some of the wealthiest men in America (like J.P. Morgan) were members, yet never seemed to see exploitation of the poor as being in conflict with their christian principles. Still, every faith has good people doing good work within it and such people deserve respect. And it’s nice to see that Benedict has turned his gimlet gaze on someone besides the Jesuits.

  36. Jamie Cameron

    Jamie Cameron said, 16 days ago

    What gets me is the sin of ‘Sodom’ was really bugger all about buggery, it was the abuse of hospitality that was the real offence and does anyone know what the poor old people of Gomorrah had down?? And anyone who tries to propose that Bronze Age stories are anything more than faerie tales, just look at the Churchs’ new position on Mr onan and his apparent moment of indecision.

  37. Jamie Cameron

    Jamie Cameron said, 16 days ago

    But going back to the point of cartoon, shrewd move by the Pope, throw in the Papal visit to England next year and does sort of look like the Counter Reformation is on a roll.

  38. fritzoid

    fritzoid said, 16 days ago

    “Atma How about the road to Damascus? Most Paul’s epistles were written BEFORE the Gospels. Refute that please?”

    The road to Damascus? You mean where Saul of Tarsus had an epileptic fit and hallucinated meeting a man who had been killed years earlier? What about it?

    The Gospels as we know them were not put into writing until after their attributed authors were dead, and in fact were anonymous for about 100 years after their initial appearances. Similarly, there were scads of other Gospels whose attributed authors had as much authority as Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, but were not included in the official canon.

    That Paul did in fact write the epistles attributed to him I have no reason to doubt, but the fact that Jesus was dead by the time their supposed meeting is to me a strong indicator that it did not occur. If I claimed to have met Elvis while walking in Memphis on New Years Eve, 1999, I’m sure I could get SOME people to believe me, but it wouldn’t hold up in court…

  39. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, 16 days ago

    Excellent points, Anthony. I do notice , however, works without faith is not even mentioned at all…In the interest of full-disclosure; are you now claiming to be a Christian?
    Read Mark7:17-19. Scripture plainly allows for the eating of Shellfish, therefore it is not one of the “sins” left un-changed by the New Covenant in Christ.

  40. Anthony 2816

    Anthony 2816Genius_badge said, 16 days ago

    “works without faith is not even mentioned at all”

    Well, that’s pretty much inherent in the system: You can’t have christianity without blind faith, so if you don’t have faith, the question of works becomes moot.

    “are you now claiming to be a Christian?”

    I couldn’t if I wanted to, because my brain is wired atheist-style: I’m incapable of deciding to believe in something. All I can do is recognize whether I believe in something or not. And with christianity, that just isn’t going to happen.

    “Read Mark7:17-19”

    Hmm, so it also supports cannibalism, too, then. Good news for the Catholics!

  41. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, 15 days ago

    In my mis-spent youth, I hung out with Dungeons and Dragons players who spent hours arguing as to whether a paladin could take out a druid, or if dragons where tougher than giants, or if Zeus was mightier than Odin, and what all the gods wanted from players anyway. Taking fantasy worlds completely seriously and immersing themselves in them to the exclusion of reality.

    From the above discussions, I see little has changed for “adults.”

  42. fritzoid

    fritzoid said, 15 days ago

    “Works without faith” is the point of the Good Samaritan, as I see it. Who among the passersby would find favor with God? The Scribe and Levite who who had the right Faith but didn’t act, or the Samaritan who acted but was of the “wrong” faith?

    There’s another passage that I came across a while back, but I can’t find it. Something about “You who served Me, but did not know it was Me” finding favor…

  43. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, 15 days ago

    Haha, I thought we were having a logical conversation…

  44. Anthony 2816

    Anthony 2816Genius_badge said, 14 days ago

    That’s up to you, Puppy. If you respond to my last post, then we can continue to have a “logical conversation” (as “logical” as a discussion about your illogical religion can be).

    Or you can do your usual run-away, and the conversation will end in limbo.

    Like the ones here:

    http://www.gocomics.com/tomtoles/2009/11/02/

    http://www.gocomics.com/donwright/2009/11/02/

    And maybe here, who knows?:
    http://www.gocomics.com/stevebreen/2009/11/05/

  45. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, 14 days ago

    The Lord has dealt harshly with me for my judgemental attitude in fact I am guilty of lurid fornications just like sodomy. Please forgive me, whomever I have maligned. I feel he is telling me that I am heaping condemnation where he has forgiven me of the same thing. God bless you all and keep seeking Jesus.

  46. Anthony 2816

    Anthony 2816Genius_badge said, 14 days ago

    Um, so I guess we’re not continuing the conversation…

  47. comYics

    comYics said, 14 days ago

    Faith comes by hearing, and hearing from The Word.

    Study to show thyself approved.

    Works, faith.

    You show me your faith, I will show you my works by my faith.
    James encourages, I have faith, I also have the works.
    Its like a hand in hand thing. Cannot be stolen, cannot be traded, cannot be sold. All belongs to God, always.

  48. M Henri Day

    M Henri Day said, 13 days ago

    DrCanuck, leaving aside the question of power I suggest that unlike Zeus, Odin is a tragic figure. As far as I know, there exist no ancient Greek myths corresponding to Ragnarök (Götterdämmerung), in which even the gods are destroyed, and Zeus, that epitome of physical perfection, did not have to offer his eye to gain knowledge….

    Henri

  49. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, 13 days ago

    Ok, now you’ve lost me.

  50. ahab

    ahabGenius_badge said, 13 days ago

    fritzoid, I’m still laughing about your explanation on your sister’s moose-bite to DrCannuck.