This Bizarro comic panel made me chuckle. I'm sure you can start a flamewar simply by mentioning the A-word (indeed, Dan Piraro's blog post on this comic panel has quite a bit of comments), so why don't we just laugh a bit and carry on?
Link - For more Bizarro, check out Dan Piraro's excellent website and blog.
- Kto tam?
- Ateista.
- Nie wierz?.
- Jak Boga kocham...
As an atheist, I can't believe that's not funny.
Or is it really a gushing "Athiests are awesome and everybody would love Athiesm if they tried it?!" piece of propaganda? I assume there's more to it than that... right?
I think the people who don't "get" the comic are the people who understand that "I don't believe X" is a figure of speech. People who are taking that phrase literally apparently are seeing the humor here.
Either way, I'd call a comic that half of the population doesn't even get not very good.
I'm pretty forgiving of lame jokes, but I don't laugh much when I read his comics. Well I guess we all have different senses of humor.
Anyone eating at this cafe will burn in everlasting damnation.
Whatever, this one is a bit puzzling...
My atheism isn't about "not being able to believe", it's about knowing there isn't anything in which to believe in the first place.
but he thinks you have a great personality.
I do believe in God. That does not keep me from laughing about good jokes. It does, however, keep me from going to church. I do not believe in doctrine.
I don't like Bizarro much, but this was cute. It's also an old joke.
Also, you might enjoy that my grandfather used to rail against cardinal Bernard Law in the Boston Area because they were "a bunch of crooks" and the largest land owners and "there's something wrong when the church is the largest owner of property in the state". A few years ago we find out that Cardinal Law knew about all those priests who molested little boys and I find out that "wow, my grandfather was right!"
It's hard/painful to believe in a god that lets his front men behave like that, free will or not.
True, but the cartoonist may have went with "can't", because "don't" has a negative feel to it.
gosh, i wish i were as intelligent as you clearly are. i don't claim to know anything that big for certain. i'm not that presumptuous.
atheists seem like know-it-all kids to me.
agnostic? well that seems reasonable. and smart.
Back to work, Dan. Kinko's breaktime is over.
A similar joke would be, "A Catholic cafe, where they only serve wine and wafers." Ha ha, it's funny because Catholics eat food during church, and cafes have food, you know - get it?
Oh and yes I'm an humanist and a taoist too.