Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 16, 2023

More fantasy than your run of the mill religion

Definitely should have stopped with horses

Why would Lucy imagine God as a human?

God: I gave you a world and everything in it. Its all up to you.

Danae would say that he didn’t stop there. That he continued on and created women – to rectify the mistake.

Makes sense to me!

Human race creation: when will the Last Judgment happen, at the end of the time, God will be found guilty and sent to Hell.

It is “straight” from the horse’s mouth.

Bumper sticker: ‘When God made man first, She was only kidding.’

It was supposed to be “mane” not “man”.

There is a bit of the first account in Genesis here. Day 1 – light. Day 2 – Sky & sea. Day 3 – land. Day 4 – source for light. Day 5 – birds & fish. Day 6 – creatures for land culminating in male & female. And recognize it is different from the second account where everything is made for the benefit of Adam. But neither is the creatio ex nihilo of Christian theology but both are riffs are the Mesopotamian bringing order to chaos.

Danea created God in her image

Several weeks ago, one of the readings at our service one of the readings was from Genesis and about how God created creatures great and small. At this point one of God’s smaller creatures, a mouse, ran out from under the piano.

One of the women chased after it and caught it in her dress. She took it outside and threw it in our garden.

I wondered what people driving by must have thought as they saw this woman flipping up the front of her dress.

“Martha, pull in here. It looks like these people know how to throw a fun service.”

If there is an opposite end to “high mass,” that’s our services. They meet all the requirements of a Eucharist (barely) but definitely not solemn.

Then “god”(speaker Kevin McCarthy)decided that MTG needed something to do so he placed her on the Joint Committee for the Defense Authorization Act. Which might have been a mistake

That’s pretty close, actually.

Could have stopped with the first two panels. That is great.

Cats are the only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible. I’m amused to think that God sees them as too independent to deal with.

The bible is full of ridiculous stories.

Looks more like a character in Marvel comics, with rays shooting out of the hands

Another version of the creation story,God created the heavens then rested.God created the earth then rested.God created all the animals then rested.God created man then rested.Then God created women and since then neither God or man has had any rest.

Serves ya right, dude!

Creation should have taken billions of years, but instead God made a rush job of it and threw the while thing together in just 6 days. That’s why nothing really works right.

Ever wondered about the wildebeest and the warthog? He had a quota.

This is such heresy. Men and Women are the beloved creation of God. We are created in HIS image.

God continues to love his children and never rejects them. His grace and mercy endure forever! We are the ones who reject Gd by not following his will.

Summer is the time to ponder the beauty of flowers, the intricate details of insects, and the amazing strength of larger animals.

For the record, from the records it appears that God stopped at Dinosaurs there for a while, and then changed his mind. Hard turn, that.

Great drawing in this strip. You might almost say its inspired.

what if God was actually an ADHD entity and after 8 days of creation he was on to something else entirely….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1×3RRrqJWKA&pp=ygUyY2dpIGFuaW1hdGVkIHNob3J0IGZpbG0gdW5pY29ybiB0aGUgbG9va2luZyBwbGFuZXQ%3D

That’s one way to view creation..

Psalm 8 When I look up at your skies, at what your fingers made— the moon and the stars that you set firmly in place—4 what are human beings that you think about them; what are human beings that you pay attention to them?

“All my friends are heathens, take it slow…”

Ha!

If we think about it, supposedly we were made in his image

God’s case for being perfect unraveled when he created humans.

So that’s why He messed up on us. He was too tired to think straight.

Everything has a past even the Old Testament, Genesis was told and retold many times in many cultures, the story comes from Babylonian and Mesopotamian origins and is told in Enuma Elish.

Scamper in the a grassy field.

Humanity was doing ok for the first million or so years. As long as we were ‘hunter-gatherers’ and considered ourselves an integral part of the biosphere we were fine, even though we did start altering the ecosystem a long time ago. So do Beavers, Termites, Elephants and Ants. The problems started when we began animal husbandry and sedentary agriculture, which led to the idea of us ‘owning’ animals, land and other humans. Add in the ‘Paternal’ religions like Judaism, Christianity, Islam and even Zoroastrianism (the mostly currently unknown, and unacknowledged contributor of a lot of current ‘Christianity’ thanks to Saul of Tarsus initially and especially re-engineering by the Romans) and it became not just our right but our duty to Overcome nature instead of being part of it. It’s been a downward spiral ever since.

Old folks need their nap before creating…

As long as we’re on the subject:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8525/8525-h/8525-h.htm

A favorite or mine. Mark Twains “Eve’s Diary”.

“Where ever she was, there was Eden.”

Oh. … I’m a little disappointed. The last few Sunday strips had Wiley Bears. I could think of several ending panels for this one with Wiley Bears. But, no. Just a girl and her horse.

Considering how Man has treated this planet, maybe you shoulda stopped at the horses.

Lucy is right.

Ever hear this one?

When John Milton got married, he wrote PARADISE LOST

After his wife died,he wrote PARADISE REGAINED

Ricky Gervais remarked that blasphemy is “a law to protect an all-powerful supernatural deity from getting it feelings hurt”.