Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for February 10, 2023

So many gods, so little time to choose. So I just believe in one less than anyone else.

With pantheistic religions you would be believing in many less

Okay, I figure in addition to God-Man, there’s Zeus, Isis, Ganesha (not one of the Hindu big three, but I guess Bolling wanted some zoomorphism), but who’s the dark guy?

‘All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for Omnipotent Friends to bicker…’

I’m atheist, so I don’t care, but I enjoy some of the discussions. The latest take is that god (any god) is not “Omnipotent” but rather is “Maximally potent”. That means he isn’t able to do anything he wants to do, only those things which must be done. Subtle difference I think, but interesting.

Just get Scott Meyer to send Omnipresent Man over to take care of it.

Allah is also there, but it’s forbidden to draw him.

As George Carlin put it: “MY ‘God’ has a bigger d*** then YOUR ‘God’!”

The US government has decided which is real, by offering tax exemption to the people who bring his/her word to the masses. All of the others are, of course, imaginary and are not granted such benefits.

Right? They wouldn’t reward fraud, would they?

Odin is forgotten yet again.

I sort of hoped it would have been called the Hall of Omnipotence.

Alright, we’ll settle this in the ancient ways: who’s had the most deaths committed in their name? No, wait – who had the best origin story adapted to a Hollywood movie?

This doesn’t make sense. Zeus or Isis wouldn’t claim omniscience or omnipotence, that’s not how Greek or Egyptian mythology worked (I know even less about Hinduism). Like Packratjohn said, they were maximally potent, control over their element, and they all needed to learn things the hard way.

In any polytheistic tradition “omnipotence” is a problem, and I’d suggest that Isis and Ganesha shouldn’t be there. Perhaps a case could be made for Brahma, since there’s a suggestion that all other Hindu gods in fact are aspects of (and derive their existence from) Brahma, “the Creator.” It isn’t a coincidence that the word “bhraman” means “ultimate reality,” but neither is it definitive.

Any guesses who the guy with the “T” on his chest is supposed to be? He’s an old man with a white beard so I’m assuming he’s in the Western monotheist tradition, but I can’t match him to a name. He could be Aristotle’s “prime mover,” to which (whom) he applied the term “god,” but writing in Greek he should be wearing a “Θ” for “θεός” (theós). And if it were “Spinoza’s God” he’d likely be wearing a “D” (for “deus”)…

I wonder if Captain Marvel’s five gods or heroes (plus one Hebrew king) ever bickered amongst themselves……..

God-Man: “I have billions of believers!”

Isis: “Oh, yeah? Well 10,000 years ago everybody worshipped me and nobody even knew you existed.”

God-Man: “So what? That was then, this is now.”

Isis: “Oh yeah? Did you forget that we’re all immortal? So time means nothing to us!”

Stephen King: “By Einstein, she’s got you there, old boy!”

Other than the settling disagreements thing it doesn’t seem that paradoxical.

Fun fact: the Bible can be interpreted as showing that other gods do exist, e.g. the god/s who turn/s the Egyptian sorcerers’ staffs into snakes. Monolatry is the term for worshipping a single god while believing that others exist. Of course, there are many Christians who believe that all other gods are in fact demons – see the evangelical Christian comic Hairy Polarity and the Sinister Sorcery Satire if you want to give yourself a brain aneurysm.

He looks like a bird. Horus?

The dark one could be Mot. Canaanite god the father of Baal.

Meanwhile, look up in the sky at the pretty Chinese balloon!!!

Oh. I get it. Cronos is Russia, Godman is Trump, I-Woman is the Democrat, and Elephant Man is the Republican.