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[–] [email protected] 2 points 58 minutes ago

The Rapture = At literally any moment, your little child self could be snatched violently upward into space/some unknown cosmic destination to the sound of blaring celestial trumpets from the skies, etc. This is 100% real and seems increasingly likely, by the day.

Night-night, sweetie!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

If God is good, they'll have a thing for goth girls.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 minutes ago

If god is anything like the dominionists, his only thing for goth girls is "convincing them to become trad wives". (I knew a few of these guys unfortunately, the very few that managed to get laid turned out to be massive abusive assholes)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago

And if God is bad, they'll have a thing for goth girls

[–] [email protected] 58 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

There is a Christian bedtime story where I'm from. In the end it says something like "and you'll wake up in the morning if god wants you to". wtf what if god doesn't want me to wake up tomorrow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Basically the Muslim saying "insha'Allah".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 46 minutes ago

Which isn’t specifically about sleep or anything.

I believe it means God willing.

Mashallah is similar and means something like God willed it (made it happen).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

the muslims also have an explanation for sleep: "god kills you at night and wakes you up in the morning"

applying simple logic to that would get you mistreated i.e how do you breathe when you're dead?

they have no answer to this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

We got a lullaby with that line here in Germany. "Morgen früh, wenn Gott will, wirst du wieder geweckt."

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Then you don't

[–] [email protected] 88 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

Christian God doesn't even come down to earth in the form of an animal to get you pregnant. You just wake up one morning with a bun in the oven. Dude should at least make it fun. Zeus and Posieden knew how to have a good time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

My favorite story now that Hades 2 the video game is in early access, is that Melenöe, Hades daughter, was conceived by Zeus disguised as Hades hitting up Persephone.

They do skip details like this in the Hades games, also skip incest and inbreeding. They dont skip same gender relationships though, so at least there is some details that are retained

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

I've been holding off getting Hades 2 only because I haven't beaten Hades 1. Which is probably stupid, because it's a roguelike and I could be unable to beat it forever because RNGesus hates me. 🤣

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

You can do it! Did you beat hades once?

Look up OP builds, use the Hera bow, and start with aprodite's keepsake, and use aprodite's cast with hera bow. This is the only required part for this build. Other than that Athena dash is always the best dash always always, until you find the game becomes easy. Poseidon attack with this build is suggested, but optional.

In the mirror, focus on getting more death defiance, dashes and life regen. After that more health and the one that gives bonus damage if you have two curses on the enemy (you get one from aprodite's cast, and one from poseidon attack + razor shoals boon)

Use the same build over and over again and you will beat hades in a few tries.

Learn the moves, when foes telegraph their attack, dash more. The hardest boss is the second to last boss. Won't explain why, for sake of spoilers of you or someone else hasn't gotten that far.

You should use gold to buy max health, or healing more often. I bet you focus on buying boons first, you don't need that with the build above

When you first manage to beat hades, beat him like 9 times total i think to get the end credits. The prolog after the end credits has more story than before the end credits. Mainly give max amount of nectar to everyone to qualify for the big ending in the prolog

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Zeus doesn't even discriminate based on gender. He saw Ganymede, a cute mortal twink herder, and brought him to mt Olympus to be his femboy cup-bearer. Tried for ages to get him pregnant, but with no such luck.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Probably ought to be glad Zeus doesn't exist either.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Good call. Everything is Zeus's type.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago

...I think I'd rather be Zeus's type than Yahweh's...

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 19 hours ago (16 children)

Huh.....I spent so much of my life concentrated on the fact that Mary was a lying slut who absolutely had sex with someone. Thus making Jesus not only NOT God's child, but also by definition a bastard.....that I never thought about the story from the perspective of it being true. If you take the story at face value, and God impregnated Mary in her sleep? That makes God a rapist who didn't get consent.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Mary was not virgin until they changed the story later around A.D. 300, during the Romain Catholic Church.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

Oh. Damn. I only heard the story AFTER 300AD. I was late to the game, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

You have a source to read that up? At least in 452, they (some) were already pretty sure about her being virgin.

Dioscorus then moved to depose Flavian of Constantinople and Eusebius of Dorylaeum on the grounds that they taught the Word had been made flesh and not just assumed flesh from the Virgin and that Christ had two natures.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Chalcedon

Edit: the bible was written ca. 300 after christ tho. Probably because of this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

452 is after 300 so that would be consistent with OP, however, here's a "source" such as it is claiming her virginity in 150 AD https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_James

OP might be confusing the adipartheos of Mary - the belief that she was a virgin before, during and after the birth of Christ. Some even go as so far as to imply Jesus wasn't born like a human and emerged in some other way, which I'll leave to the readers imagination.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

In school I tried to bring up this theory that the three wise men all thought they were the father and came bearing gifts for that reason and mary was either lying or totally clueless/tricked. It wasn't well received but nobody was able to refute it with relevant bile quotes or anything.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

nobody was able to refute it with relevant bile quotes or anything.

Unclear if typo, or powerful statement.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

bile is an important part of your body's functions, don't compare it to the silly storybook

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

A little from column A, a little from column B? ;-)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

No way, Religion is all a sham? MIND=BLOWN

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

That makes God a rapist who didn’t get consent.

If we take the story at face value, he did get consent.

And Mary said, “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.”

  • Luke 1:38
[–] [email protected] 19 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Man.....dirty talk sure was different back then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Behold! My loins are awaiting thyself!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Actually an angel appeared and told Mary she was chosen. She said "aight bet." So, technically consent.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 15 hours ago

Your boss shows up and says, “you’ve been chosen”. Say no and you’re fired…

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