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Category: Genetics • Godlessness • Humor • Science
Posted on: August 20, 2006 10:18 AM, by PZ Myers
The Inoculated Mind twists a Calvin and Hobbes comic to make a point about debates with creationists…I don't know if I should endorse that kind of tinkering with Holy Writ.
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It's better than those stickers of "Calvin" kneeling in front of a cross...
Posted by: rlrr | August 20, 2006 10:29 AM
Meh.
That monosyllable expands to the following:
"I agree with the point this fellow is making, and since he's not exactly turning a profit with his slight re-touching of a Calvin and Hobbes strip, I'm not really riled up about it. (Unlike the "praying Calvin" stickers, which ruttin' piss me off. Can I get a sticker of Godzilla stomping upon the sticker manufacturers who make those Calvin rip-offs?) At the same time, I think the original brilliant comic strips by Watterson himself say so much about the wonders revealed by science, the follies of religion and the loopiness of human beings that I don't think the re-touching adds much at all."
Or, in one word: "Meh."
Meanwhile, Watterson is having brunch with Thomas Pynchon. . . .
Posted by: Blake Stacey | August 20, 2006 11:52 AM
The kneeling Calvins are more disgusting than the 'calvin pissing on something I don't like' sticker, but just barely.
Posted by: Stogoe | August 20, 2006 1:19 PM
My brother's badly-photoshopped C&H spoof for his college humor mag.
Posted by: Heliologue | August 20, 2006 1:25 PM
I was tempted to say something about becoming a Calvinist, but those stickers took the fun out of it. First "Killing for Jesus" (prolife murders), then creos "Lying for Jesus", now business "Stealing for Jesus". What's next?
Posted by: Torbjörn Larsson | August 20, 2006 4:58 PM
Indeed, Calvin and Hobbes is such a good comic strip that I'd recommend it to anyone to read in place of an actual book for english class. I was a amazed at how close to this situation the strip was... and only three words were changed. The strip could have worked on its own, but I thought "If only..."
I just hope it got a few laughs.
As for the Calvin peeing on things, praying, etc, no one who makes or puts those kinds of decals up understands anything about Calvin and Hobbes.
Posted by: Inoculated Mind | August 20, 2006 6:02 PM