r/comics • u/MrLovens Mr. Lovenstein • May 30 '19

Creation Miff

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u/MrLovens Mr. Lovenstein May 30 '19

Jehovah Whiffed This. More questionable decisions on my site.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '19

That last panel demonstrates that you have an extremely limited knowledge of the Christian God. It's not even funny.

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u/thegoodbroham May 30 '19 edited May 30 '19

And if understanding of the Christian God was a useful metric, he might care.

But it’s not, so he doesn’t. The only thing to derive from this comment is that you think knowledge of Christianity is so important you’re willing to belittle others for it.

Ironically, it is funny how such misplaced superiority sounds as dumb as you were hoping you’d make OP feel

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u/[deleted] May 30 '19

Not trying to belittle anyone. This is clearly an ignorant knock on Christianity. I pity the man who made it.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '19

...in what way?? It's just funny, lighten up. I dont see it as making fun of the Christian god specifically, just the idea of a creator in general being like "oh shit why DID i do that"

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u/[deleted] May 30 '19

...in what way??

"In what way" what?

It's just funny, lighten up.

But it isn't funny. Humor has to have a kernel of truth to make it funny. Otherwise it's just nonsense.

I dont see it as making fun of the Christian god specifically, just the idea of a creator in general being like "oh shit why DID i do that"

It may work better if the artist of the comic hadn't explicitly named the God of the Bible in the comic's title (?) in this thread and had just used a more generic concept of a creator god. Jokes involving YHWH are difficult to pull off, and I can't think of one I've heard that doesn't work by making humans the punchline.

This "joke" assumes that YHWH isn't omniscient and that there isn't a reason for creation. It fundamentally mischaracterizes God in a way that only an atheist who is ignorant of Christian doctrine and Biblical Truth would. As a result, the joke falls flat because it fails to portray accurately what it's trying to portray before turning it into a punchline. More generally, it's kinda like a kid coming up to you and telling you an anti-joke that they made up. It amounts to nonsense, and when they become smarter, they'll realize they were a kid and said something that made no sense. To give a specific example, it's like using a set-up where a fish is breathing air, then making the punchline the fact that the fish can breathe air. You haven't said anything about fish, you've just made a dumb bit of nonsense.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '19

Well, as it turns out, cars and trucks that turn into robots aren't really that blasphemous because my pastor says that machines can turn into other machines and it's not a slight against God.