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MellowDem

(5,018 posts)
4. Most believers were indoctrinated as children...
Thu Aug 8, 2013, 06:36 PM
Aug 2013

And it takes a lot more than simple logic or rational arguments to make them question beliefs, which is the point of successful belief systems. I know I balked at stuff like this as a believer for a long time, and it was easy to do.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
6. Yes and they have a lot of intellectual dishonesty and cognitive dissonance.
Thu Aug 8, 2013, 06:38 PM
Aug 2013


Welcome back, MellowDem!

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
7. I don't get this.
Thu Aug 8, 2013, 06:40 PM
Aug 2013

They are in a comic, so does that mean that god exists? Or doesn't exist?

Or is this just making fun of the way atheists and theists sometimes argue?

okasha

(11,573 posts)
13. It is.
Thu Aug 8, 2013, 07:09 PM
Aug 2013

Just an observation that neither the format nor the message is nearly as profound as the creator and/or poster would have us believe.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
14. I thought I might figure it out by who was slapping who on the back,
Thu Aug 8, 2013, 07:18 PM
Aug 2013

but that hasn't happened.

And I am not familiar with this cartoonist.

dimbear

(6,271 posts)
18. Superhero comic books are amazingly popular, have been since let's see,
Fri Aug 9, 2013, 04:52 AM
Aug 2013

Sumerian days.

Different capes, that's the main change.


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