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Hello fellow Calvin and Hobbes fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… The comics are posted in chronological order on the day (usually) they were released. Posting them to match the release date adds a bit of fun and nostalgia to match the experience of reading them in the newspaper for first time. Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. It really sucked when I missed a day. Only years later, when I got the books was I able to catch up on the missed strips.
Calvin and Hobbes is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995. Commonly cited as "the last great newspaper comic",[2][3][4] Calvin and Hobbes has enjoyed broad and enduring popularity, influence, and academic and philosophical interest… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes
Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Calvin and Hobbes!
Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities:
Bloom County !bloomcounty@lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty
Calvin and Hobbes !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes
Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness
Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield
The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works
Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.
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It's rather easy to live without God. Just live the same way you currently do, except stop reading the Bible, praying, and going to church. It's not hard. I did it.
Under a Roman Christian theology, the lord isn't just some guy. He's the personification of the quality of existence in the universe.
Look at it this way: imagine if the colour purple walked up to you and said hi. He's every purple crayon, every purple flower, every purple tee shirt. He is purpleness itself. If you shot him dead with a gun, all the purple in the universe would disappear and there would be one less colour.
Now imagine someone shot Existence dead with a gun. Nothing would exist anymore. To most Christians, this is precisely what they imagine a world without the lord would look like. They are baffled by the idea that atheists think they live in such a world.
Personally, I prefer the original polytheistic interpretation of Judaism, and I think Roman adoption of Christianity is the single worst thing to ever happen to the world.