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What sort of experience could it be that would seem to directly suggest that such a huge deal such as an omnipotent, eternal and all-powerful creator exists, I don't know what it could be.

I am not a huge fan of Occamizing everything, but when you have an experience, you first try to see how it would be explainable in some simpler means than just inventing a huge whole theology about it.

Even if I saw god in my dreams and he told me 'Helm, you undersmart heretic, you're creating a demon child army with which to attack south africa, please stop that or I will have to punish you, naughty boy!' I'd first think this is a psychological manifestation of some sort, due to emotional pressure because calacver doesn't like me before I'd say 'but of course! God exists!'.

Seriously, even if god split the skies and stared me right in the face, I'd sooner think I have unwittingly digested psychotropic drugs than that an omnipotent, all-powerful being with a kickass beard has just presented itself to me.

Erenan, take yourself out of the social context in which you were born and raised in, and put yourself in the jungle, little jungle boy. Now repeat that scenario that made you go 'yes, God exists', while having no knowledge of that this god concept is, and tell me if you theoretically would still arrive at the same conclusion. Of course, this type of ignorance would also mean that if you saw thunder strike you wouldn't think 'electrical discharge' you'd think 'holy fuck!' but let's not put the two in the same bag: God doesn't require any sort of indoctorination to believe in him. does he?

Yeesh, everyone's a critic!

I think Linus would agree he benefits more from this than from ass-patting, but he can step in and tell me otherwise if he wants.

I don't get those that only feel the need to be good because otherwise god would punish them. How about being good because it works? For the community and for the individual.

I don't see any distinction really. Maybe the flavour of unfairness is a bit different. In a dead-end perhaps the game lets you know... whereas walking dead seems to suggest you're 'merrily walking dead' not knowing you've died.

buh

Once again Yak, thank you for posting.

The curseword is there to stand out. Lucius ain't the character to use such language, it is there to emphasize how much he doesn't want Abel to move up from the basement.

Do this better. 'Wild Horse Skullfucking' is just something that doesn't work for any other aim than to show you're awkward with english.

Wasn't sayin you did. Just don't understand the 'oh no, NOW nukes are terrible!' type of mentality that some people show whenever there's news of this or that dictator getting his own arsenal.

I still don't get the 'nukes in the wrong hands' argument. Because US hands are sensible? Them being the only ones to have dropped such armaments in densely populated areas thus far?

The general idea of this comic is good, I can see it being done well. The execution suffers. First of all, I'd suggest breaking out paper and pencil and colors and stuff. Not mspaint. Then work with it in a proper layout, a4 three strips, three or two panels per strip. SHOW much more than SAY what's going on.

I'm not sure he's breaking the fourth wall as much as greeting the inflatable doll. I guess the humor lies in the hypocrisy of Lucius' attitude.

That's possible. It was absolutely not clear to me. if a panel showing Lucius, next one the doll, last one Lucius going 'well hello there...' was instead there, I'd have no problem reading that correctly.

Hahahaha...it makes you happy? Does it make you happy that "christians" burnt people like YOU a few years ago (A few years ago? How old are you, Helm?)?

At least we were burned for being hardcore awesome atheists, not slightly-different-yet-the-same theists. And I've been around for 3 years now.

Interesting analysis of me, though. I can understand people thinking I have solipsistic tendencies, but....pantheistic? Where did that come from?

From the 'what you desire to be deified happens. Natural consequence that everything is partly godly.

breaking the fourth wall in the first comic? Nono

also, 'wild horses skullficking' is really a bad turn of phrase I think. Writing victorian-type dialogue which I guess will suit Lucius will be a challenge to you, as you're not a native speaker of english.

you undersmart-mouth you, Nacho!!

Babar, what you seem to be suggesting is closer to you being some sort of panetheistic solipsist where what you desire happens and you are your own god, than anything christian-like. I makes me happy to know that the christians burned people like you at the stake a few years ago.

Oh I forgot, where you come from I'd get keelhauled if I called someone 'colasshole'

The God that makes a young girl suffer six demons inside her just so that can show the world EEEEVIIIIIL (a Godly creation, since god created everything, right?) and therefore God exists is truly a colossal asshole.

Yea I've seen the movie, yea God offers her a 'choice' in the matter. I've said before there are no choices when god makes us toasters do what toasters do.

The bible isn't evidence either, if you're using the word 'evidence' formally.

Helm, you're imposing your demand of there being a dilemma upon the nature of God's omniscience (or omnipotence). Why should there by necessaity be no grey areas?

Because there are no gray areas in all-powerfulness.

As for the omnipotence paradox, my favourite answer is to look at the question as "Is the total lack of disability itself a disability?" to which the answer is obviously "No".

Take your obviousness to Godel for discussion.

Nice to see our resident apologist avoiding me.