Kidding aside, (I don’t really want to be serious, but this is my nature) Let us consider the fact that everybody makes mistakes once in a while let alone impulsive and swearing Christians. Oh I want you to find someone perfect. Come on. Almost everybody’s badmouthing, whatever their religion is, right? Even Mike. We’re on even ground. Let us give each other the opportunity to be rude, if we are rude, but it is really nice to have someone act within the internet etiquette rules. In any case you’re wondering, I am Christian, to be more specific, Roman Catholic, from the Philippines, 18 years old.

I always thought it was very naive not to believe in Jesus, but now I think these are also naive: believing in Jesus but pushing the belief to others, and not believing there is a higher power – come on, the universe wasn’t built by coincidence. That might be the lamest thing. Ever. Yes we worked our way to get to where we are, but isn’t it quite mysterious why we did. And how is it so complicated? My mom said to me once that, “Imagination is proof that God exists.”

Making fun of Him in comics is certainly offensive, but a toilet un-flushed is similarly offensive, right? But it is not the same. It’s okay to make fun of Christians, but to make fun of Jesus… I know we cannot always do things that will please everyone. Though we know what is certainly most offending.

And Dan, you say if God exists the table must always be full? What an existence. You gettin’ all you want. So what’s the point of living through life? That’s so boring. Nothing will ever challenge you. If that were the case I’d sleep all day.

To Mike, you say you don’t want to evoke certain emotions and it’s all in good, clean fun…well, keep on continuing the work. I’d be visiting regularly.. but, I agree with Craig…it’s a insult to everything we believe in. But I am not a ‘devout’ Christian like he is. But this strip made me reassess how I am as a Christian. I have been long neglecting Christ, I think this is the turning point. I believe I have sinned more than I haven’t. It’s time I don’t. I realized the sacrifice He made for us.

Call me names but I think if I die believing these sort of things, and discover there is really a God, then lucky me. If not then, too bad. But doing good things sorta makes me feel better, makes me a little proud of myself. I just hope everyone the best too.

To those who discusses condoms!
I used to think that they should be banned. I believed everybody should feel that sex is a very responsibility-oriented act. Have AIDS, be pregnant, or something else so that nothing in life should be unpunished. Promiscuous or non-promiscuous alike. But I’m kinda pro-choice now. God is the only person who can judge us. Oh someone might react what about the kids, and the increasing population? Well, that’s really unlucky. But this is all just me. I respect all of your opinions.

If the world worked like we thought it would work, then there is no need for it anymore.

PS

This was long….but so worth it. Sorry if I flew off-topic. I know you are not the only one who drew Jesus cartoons. But this was the site I was in. But I’m part of the blog traffic so that’s one benefit you get from me. I know I’m young but I think it’s a right to speak for yourself. If I offended you in anyway, I’m sorry… I’m human too. I’m not one of those ‘Holier than Thou’ folks. Please respond…I wanna hear your side.

Anyway, I’d compare this to seeing your mother slip on a banana peel: you may laugh since it’s funny and she’ll probably forgive but, but some will feel bad about it afterward since it must have hurt and she’s your mother after all.

Also Dan, I’d like to ask both you and the religious zealots to keep your opinions to yourself, since you sound all the same to me, thinking that you know better than others and judging them, even though you don’t know them and don’t understand them or the concepts they’re living by, nor do any of you have a real proof to the existence/nonexistence of God.

And bigeyedeer, I have an idea: how about stop screwing like rabbits if your country is ravaged by AIDS ? With the whole “trusting the Pope” deal, you’d think they would also try listen to him about premarital sex, chastity etc, which could minimize the danger of infection. Before you ask, those are just my own ideas, and I too think that Pope should change his stance on condoms, at least for married couples or the infected.

Let me know if you can fit them together your cartoon and the fact for a good laught – or inteligent one at least. I want to laugth as well. vladpuha – at + yah… com. I hope you will not feel judged or picked up on I just cannot see how can you have a good jock out of Isaiah 53.

MIKE’S EDIT: Vlad, I had to delete the tedious list of quotes from the Bible that followed here in your comment. If you read this, really think hard and honestly – who on earth wants to read that stuff here in a comments section of a cartoon blog? I don’t think you understand how the average person thinks. I’ll tell you this, and it’s a certainty, they don’t think ‘I’d like to surf the net and be educated with verse from the Bible’.

a) I don’t ‘pick’ on Christians, as you put it, to elicit a response from them – I didn’t create this site to generate religious debate; and

b) I don’t do requests.

Oh, and using your logic, should I also draw cartoons about every single animal in the world because I’ve picked on pigs and chickens?

And yet it is MIKE who you label a sinner.

Wait… What?

Anyway, basically you’ve just added another thinly veiled threat to this long list of threats. That’s the problem, you just have to keep hammering your view, trying to educate the sinners, when the sinners really don’t want or need to hear it, because they’re doing just fine without your advice thank you very much.