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Related: About this forumguillaumeb
(42,649 posts)And just as insightful as the first time this silliness was posted.
MineralMan
(147,605 posts)It's funny. But, clearly, you are offended in some way that someone has posted something you don't care for in a public discussion area. Offended enough to post a reply complaining that someone did that.
How interesting...and informative in a strange way.
The thing is that it's actually a pretty accurate representation of the history of religion.
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)So it is not surprising that you find it accurate.
MineralMan
(147,605 posts)guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)And not particularly insightful.
MineralMan
(147,605 posts)It lacks details, but follows the process well enough. It is a comic strip, not an apologia.
Again,
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)And the supposed "logic" that it derives from.
MineralMan
(147,605 posts)Please do continue...
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)Mais, ce qui rassenble, s'assemble, non?
MineralMan
(147,605 posts)guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)rassemble.
MineralMan
(147,605 posts)Ce qui se ressemble s'assemble?
In English:
Birds of a feather flock together.
Spelling, Monsieur B.
L'orthographe est importante pour le sens.
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)MineralMan
(147,605 posts)But French is not my first language, so I can't readily detect and correct misspellings in French. It took me a few minutes on Google to figure out what idiomatic expression you were trying to use. As it turned out, it was a waste of my time, since it was inanely irrelevant. But, never mind.
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)MineralMan
(147,605 posts)Tu quoque? C'est pour rire, vraiment.
Je m'amuse...
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)J'ai mon propre opinion.
MineralMan
(147,605 posts)Not every sundae is a parfait, but some are.
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)Plus proprement, un amuse bouche.
D'accord?
Cartoonist
(7,532 posts)The piece is historically accurate. You may not like it, but you can't challenge it.
What "logic" are you talking about? And what do you mean derives from?
As a self proclaimed expert on comics, I see an artist who has studied history and has encapsulated all of religion into a tier of panels easily understood by all but the most obtuse.
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)as promoting a simplistic world view.
Major Nikon
(36,900 posts)We just don't know that much about primitive religion prior to recorded history which started about 5,000 yrs ago. However we do know some types of religion predated monotheism for a period at least as long as monotheism has been around. Ironically the vast majority of modern religionists will condemn these early forms of religion as idolatry and heretical, yet still manage to get their feelings hurt when someone points out the irrationality with their chosen imaginary friends. Funny how that works.
Meanwhile nature worship predates Christianity by thousands of years and assuming some form of religion with persist will almost certainly still be around long after the bible is on the ash heap of history.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)That you're so upset about it speaks to its incisiveness. Laughing along with it would have been the better PR move. Your audience is gonna be disappointed.
Major Nikon
(36,900 posts)guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)edhopper
(34,846 posts)I have not seen this before.
msongs
(70,178 posts)Major Nikon
(36,900 posts)Thanks to religion and its religionist apologists. At least we can be thankful for those offering their counterpoint as insight to the real problems with the Chinese atheists.
RedParrot
(112 posts)Excerpt: Christianity was originally a movement of oppressed people: it first appeared as the religion of slaves and emancipated slaves, of poor people deprived of all rights, of peoples subjugated or dispersed by Rome. Both Christianity and the workers' socialism preach forthcoming salvation from bondage and misery; Christianity places this salvation in a life beyond, after death, in heaven; socialism places it in this world, in a transformation of society.
Frederick Engels
On the History of Early Christianity (1894)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894/early-christianity/index.htm
flying_wahini
(8,019 posts)Christians sure think everyone should believe as they do.
gtar100
(4,192 posts)Unless you believe all humans prior to modern science were stupid. Thankfully many researchers, anthropologists and archeologists are no longer following the stereotype that we are smarter than our ancestors. Considering we're the ones making an utter mess of our only water, our only sky, our only land and stealing the resources of this planet from our children to live as we do, the stereotype just seems a bit more like a projection. It's even over-simplistic in its depiction of religion. It reflects the worst of how *modern* humans view religion, not those of ancient or prehistoric people.
Major Nikon
(36,900 posts)It also doesn't imply prehistoric humans were more stupid than today. It actually implies exactly the opposite. Meanwhile primitive humans most certainly weren't better about managing their resources. In pretty much every regard they were worse. There just wasn't as many of them.
Voltaire2
(14,721 posts)stupid. How do you get that is was more stupid earlier out of that comic?
Oh wait, you think worshiping rocks is idiotic but worshiping magic sky beings isnt?
NeoGreen
(4,033 posts)...so maybe the word/concept that is being discussed is not 'stupidity' but 'gullibility', and if so, our prehistoric ancestors have us beat, hands down.