"I should explain christians. There is a rumor that these are people who worship Jesus Christ and follow his example. These Christian people do exist, and we're invited to view them as the real christians, but for all practical political purposes in this country, those are not the real christians."
"No, when it comes to the way power is organized and arrogated in the United States, a real christian is a person who believes that they will very soon be ushered into an eternal gated community paradise because God has specially chosen them for that reward,"
"while everyone else suffers conscious torture forever because they deserve it, and that this will all happen just as soon as the world burns to a crisp, so they're trying to make the world burn to a crisp just as fast as they can, and this is why I'm not capitalizing 'christian' in this piece even though religions usually get that honorific, because fuck them."
@wdlindsy In honor of his birthday today…
“It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.”
~Bill Watterson, cartoonist (b. 5 Jul 1958)
@Laloofah Someone here just shared a Calvin and Hobbes graphic in my feed, and you've made me realize they may have done so to commemorate Bill Watterson's birthday — which also happens to be the 110th birthday of a beloved aunt of mine (who died in 2001).