God is omniscient, right? So he know in advance who will be sent to hell and who won’t. He knows this for everyone who ever lived, and everyone who ever will live. Since he knows who will go to Hell, he can A) prevent them from being born, thus preventing anyone from going to Hell; or B) intervene to keep them from going to Hell. But he doesn’t.
Some would say that people have ‘free will’, and they have an opportunity to change. Some say that God is ‘testing’ people. But if one already knows – absolutely – the outcome of an experiment, isn’t the experiment pointless? Or worse, cruel?
-Okay, we got a room full of Jews and Romans and-
-Let’s do this! Jesuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus Chriiiiiiissssssst!
-n00b.
Later:
-ZOMG1! he rezed himself!!
-w00t. Join my guild and receive teh l33t hax.
Two comments about the crucifixion panel–first, that’s a really buff Jesus, and second, I continue to be intrigued at how Chick emphasizes the scourging since Passion of the Christ.
Plot flaws: Mailmen don’t knock on your door to deliver your mail, anywhere. In a small town where everyone knows everyone else, a mailman might inquire if he sees the mail accumulating in the mailbox over a period of time. But this guy was only out of commission for two days!
Why did the family have to return the diamond? They could have just thrown it out so as not to hurt the old man’s feelings. Perhaps accepting the diamond carried with it a moral obligation to pay the doctor as the old man requested, but that’s a stretch. Wouldn’t he be on Medicare anyway?
Property doesn’t escheat to the state just because you die intestate. I believe the property has to be unclaimed for a period of time.
Actually, at one point in time, there was a program where the mail carrier would check on the elderly if they hadn’t picked up their mail. There used to be a PSA about it that started similar to the current tract, so that’s probably where Chick (or whomever’s taken over the job of writing the tracts these days) got the idea.
As a Papist, I feel ripped off and ignored. And the evil mother could at least have chortled “HAW! HAW! HAW!” as she threw the old man’s gift in his cancerous broken-legged face.
Yes, the moral here is that if you blow a shot at $4 million bucks, you could become desperate enough to listen to a total stranger who tells you to get on your knees to accept “God’s love gift”.
I still think it was a good idea not to answer the front door earlier this week when the Jehovah’s Witnesses were pounding on it.
I had the same problem. Start preaching and my eyes immediaty start to glaze over. That’s probably why I don’t go to church anymore.
I don’t mind having discussions about relgions and Jesus, on the contrary, I enjoy it. But start off with “Have you accepted Jesus?” and I’m immediatly trying to find the nearest exit.
I can’t find it but there was a Something Positive comic where the main character, Daven, answers the front door, only to find a Witness there. He starts proletzing, only to notice Daven is masterbating.
Witness: Would you mind not doing that?
Daven: Hey, you interrupted me. I’m not altering my schedule for you.
It’s funnier in the comic. And if you can take it, it would probably keep the witnesses away.
That would be the one. I’m jealous of those guys. See, I’m gay and I don’t have a demon to perch on my shoulder. I want me a pet demon too!
I was reading some stuff on Chickie boy’s site and it appears he has hired an illustrator lately. Maybe he’s letting other people write these days too. Something sure ain’t up to the ol’ Chickie standards.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but would the diamond be worth that much? I thought the whole reason why diamonds are so expensive is because of the DeBeers monopoly.
Yeah, the old guy should have been on Medicare, although maybe he couldn’t pay all of his bills. And maybe the mailman and he were friends, and he was used to greeting him, or something?
So basically, in Chick’s Christianity, greed is okay-the woman didn’t really change, she just became Christian because she was a greedy bitch.
Well, that’s why it’d be so expensive, since DeBeers controls so much of the market. Until the folks making the cultured diamonds start cranking them out or someone breaks the monopoly, diamonds are going to remain pricey.
