# Did you know it's the power of Christ that keeps every atom from literally exploding? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 3, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354 "2007-08-03T22:37:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354/1 "2007-08-03T22:37:05Z")
Someone scanned in this comic (pdf) [http://www.carpsplace.com/spire/TANWC.pdf](http://www.carpsplace.com/spire/TANWC.pdf) , an adaption of “There’s A New World Coming” by Hal Lindsey from 1974. I (or my sister) had this comic as a kid, but I only remember a few panels of it, like the one of the guy who was chewed up by a shark getting resurrected. I certainly did not recall that atoms are kept from exploding by Christ. What was stuff made of before Christ was born, I wonder, if not atoms. Or maybe they were different kinds of atoms that did not require the Christ atomic force to keep from exploding. My sister said she was worried she was going to hell because she thought the Whore Of Babylon was pretty. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354/2 "2007-08-03T22:42:20Z")
“The Great Snatch” indeed. Those be some comely lasses that bible thumper be drawing. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354/3 "2007-08-03T22:44:17Z")
So, Robert Oppenheimer is stronger than Jesus? ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354/4 "2007-08-03T22:53:05Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] “The Great Snatch” indeed. Those be some comely lasses that bible thumper be drawing. [/QUOTE] All you need to do is “come” ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354/5 "2007-08-03T23:06:38Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] Those be some comely lasses that bible thumper be drawing. [/QUOTE] Through the first couple of pages, I had a vague memory of maybe seeing this someplace, but it was the illustration on page four that confirmed it. I definitely recall getting a happy buzz in my personal great snatch the first time I saw the arched-back short-skirt schoolgirl. The late great Planet O’ Pleasure… mmm… ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354/6 "2007-08-03T23:11:02Z")
It’s all about Page 34, baby. What could be better than standing ankle deep in Jesus? HAW! HAW! HAW! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354/7 "2007-08-04T00:04:04Z")
It’s the power of humor that keeps my head from figurtively exploding. ---
**Author:** ![zygote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e480ec/32.png) [@zygote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zygote)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354/8 "2007-08-04T00:26:47Z")
> [@](#): > > The decline of the United States of a Major World Power! Did they really say to look for _that_ as a sign that “heralds the return of Jesus”? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354/9 "2007-08-04T00:28:53Z")
And lo, Jesus did look upon them, and he said unto Buddha, “Man, you _never_ have this problem…” ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354/10 "2007-08-04T02:18:14Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] “The Great Snatch” indeed. Those be some comely lasses that bible thumper be drawing. [/QUOTE] They were drawn by the same guy who did the Archie comics at the time, he had lots of practice with the curvaceous Betty and Veronica. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354/11 "2007-08-04T03:00:00Z")
I saw this “comic” mentioned in a book High Wierdness by Mail. It was a collection, done just before the WWW went big, of all kinds of strange groups of various types, with humorous commentary by the author/editor, and several others. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354/12 "2007-08-04T03:22:32Z")
Page 28 Jesus has his game face on. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354/13 "2007-08-04T03:50:22Z")
Jesus, what a load of crap. I remember that Hal Lindsey guy from my childhood. My parents were all into this jerk and his _The Late Great Planet Earth_ book outlining the timetable for the end of the world. As I recall, it had the reunion of the Jews in Israel as the start date and then, the generation that sees this will see the end (he figured a generation to be 40 years) and then ya add the day the Sun went backwards and some other crap and carry the four and they came up with a date of The End. Sometime in the 1980’s I think. 1986 or 1988? Well, bad news there Hal, we still be here and much of that generation isn’t. And yet, I still have to see his mug on TV as I scan the channels. Anybody know what he gave as an “excuse” for the world surviving? This type really gives me the squirts. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354/14 "2007-08-04T03:59:05Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] So, Robert Oppenheimer is stronger than Jesus? [/QUOTE] So he conquered death, but not the destroyer of worlds. ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354/15 "2007-08-04T04:34:43Z")
[This is old news, people.](http://archive.salon.com/comics/boll/2004/12/23/boll/index1.html) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354/16 "2007-08-04T04:36:49Z")
According to the comic, believing in Jesus gives you perky breasts. ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354/17 "2007-08-04T05:28:06Z")
Perhaps I skimmed too quickly, but did anyone else happen to see any but caucasion people going to heaven? This comic was pretty white biased… Just a note… FML ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354/18 "2007-08-04T05:39:47Z")
[QUOTE=zygote] Did they really say to look for _that_ as a sign that “heralds the return of Jesus”? [/QUOTE] I almost asked the same thing. I’m sure it’s in the …somewhere… :dubious: Brendon Small ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354/19 "2007-08-04T06:25:32Z")
Damn I had no idea Christianity involved so many hot 70’s babes in tight sweaters/tee-shirts and short skirts. I’m down, man! ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354/20 "2007-08-04T06:30:06Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] “The Great Snatch” indeed. Those be some comely lasses that bible thumper be drawing. [/QUOTE] I suppose those with great snatches do participate in the Rapture fairly often. 😃 (and second comings.) \And in other news, Jesus is still dead. \ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354.md?page=2)