![[0381] Larisa Will Burn In Hell](/comics/2012-05-31-0381-larisa-will-burn-in-hell.png "[0381] Larisa Will Burn In Hell")
Of course Larisa isn’t becoming all soft suddenly.
I had a dozen different ideas for Larisa’s dialog in the last panel, but this one was the best in my opinion.
- Priest: … since the Lord will forgive those who honestly repent their sins. Yes?
- Larisa: Is there some sort of guideline on which sins are exceptions to this rule?
- Priest: Huh? You mean, like murder?
- Larisa: No, no, the less obvious ones. Because I really don’t want to end up like the poor fellow in Numbers, chapter 15, who was stoned to death as commanded by the Lord for gathering firewood during Sabbath.
- Larisa: I also don’t want to be mauled to death by a bear just for mocking a prophet like the little children in Kings, chapter 2. In any case, there’s no evidence that the Lord gave them time to repent before punishing them this way.
- Larisa: I’m appalled that the church refuses to give me religious guidance on avoiding sins for which I’ll be mauled to death by bears.
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Just great. Really, An other initially lovely, clever webcomic being all smart-ass about Christianity. You don’t think this whole “derp but you should stone disobedient children, how fair is that? derp…” thing is getting old? Either read through the Bible with a good commentary (Calvin maybe), ask a pastor who actually believes what he preaches or don’t ask stupid questions you really couldn’t care less about.
Whatever, I honestly don’t know why I’m pissed off by all the tolerant and understanding atheists who are all so wise they know everything better.
And if you spoke Hungarian I could actually link you to a blog that gives a very good explanation on these things. Anyway, I guess none of you will have sleepless nights if I don’t type it all out.
have fun keeping being tolerant
I’m totally behind the whole bears thing. Maybe if we fed people to bears that were caustic, the world would be a better place… and full of fat bears.
[…] Всетки люблю Лариску из “Сандры и Ву”. Девка, чисто клюковка ягодка. Похотлива, язвительна, пироманьяк и русская. Ну и кроме неё найдуться люди на юзерпики. Давно, не заглядывал кстати. Комиксок то уже цветной. Не раскрасить ли в этой связи мой старый хентайчик по теме? […]
@ Glew: “derp but you should stone disobedient children how fair is that?”
You should have put that in red. (Mark 7:9-13)
(Also, Soyeong, it’s an argument from entropy because we now understand entropy to underlie the principle Thomas is using, and expertise or lack thereof in a null field is irrelevant.)
@ Buttmonkey:
But wait, there’s more!
1. Elisha had just restored clean water to the region. He had done a massive miracle to make the region livable and productive.
2. The “bald-head” reference can be understood when you realize that Elisha was a relatively young man and that the term was used for lepers who had to shave their heads. A current term would be “outsider.” So, he’s being told, “Get out of here, stranger!”
3. These bears had mauled 42 of them. Do you think there were 42 people there, and when they saw these rampaging bears, they thought, “How interesting. Let us observe them while they rip our friends to pieces?” Rationality suggest that it was much larger than 42, and that the bears were only able to get 42 of them. As the old punchline goes, I don’t have to outrun a bear, I just have to outrun YOU.
4. Finally, God is watching a mob of young men insulting one of His representatives on Earth, right after he had done a massive favor for the people there. And as Leviticus warned, anyone acting with hostility towards God was promised with “wild animals” as punishment.
@ Tom:
Actually, Jesus did not come to replace the law, but to finish it. (That is, it’s best to read the Bible in context, not just pick parts from it.)
On Larisas comments, the Bible is pretty much a history book, where the relationship with God goes through changes. Life in Paradise, out of Paradise, life before the the law, under the law, after Jesus on the cross and after Pentecost are all different and you can’t very well mix them without getting a headache.
That type of headache is pretty popular in many circles, I’m not saying this isn’t a problem, but… ehh… the Bible is pretty complex and needs to be understood.
@ smitty:
Um,…no,…the story’s pretty clear…. No “interpretation” needed…
2 Kings 2:23-25 (KJV)
23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria.
@ Jason Thorn:
This is some pretty seriously thick assuming you’re enjoying here…
And still,…it all sounds like hog-wash… Nothing to convinve me it should be taken seriously at all.
ok i am a christian and i sill laughed! because some churches are indeed JUST LIKE THAT. yes in this example we are not subject to the old testament laws…but some pastors/priest act very……violently? when a question like that is brought up. in an odd way…its very funny
Wolf in Bears Clothing (its the last thing they’d expect)
@ Landbark:
I think she just wants to burn things during sabath and mock priest, but doesn’t want to get in suffer for it.
And just like that,we know she’s a Christian Theist. Heh.
Actually I find this title really inappropriate. Really? Larisa will burn in Hell? Idiot. It should be Larisa Will Burn Hell. I don’t know how but she would find a way.
As someone who has read the Bible cover to cover and actually teaches it to elementary school kids . . . BEST COMIC YET!
Thanks
Pillamelai wrote:
Funnily enough, New Testament commands are also inapplicable to christians, since Jesus was only addressing other Jews. Heck, his whole message was to stop Jewish in-fighting so they could band together to enslave the other races.
O’course THAT factor tends to have been forgotten by most over the centuries.
ERM wrote:
How can you sleep at night?
For shame!
That is a poor church, kicking her out instead of offering to talk her through things after the service.
Larissa wount burn in hell Hell will burn around Larissa
@ Lord Geovanni:
Take it as if i said that a paper factory will burn around the human torch
oh larisa, girl, see you dont question religion, i mean why should we question fiction my dear?
@ Unclever title:
Larissa does
This is one of my favorite comics. Reminds me a lot of this: xkcd.com/1145/. Anyway, the answers to her questions are 1) he was told what punishment would be if he continued collecting sticks and 2) these young men ()were upset that Elisha made poisons waters pure because they were making a lot of money by forcing the city’s people to pay a huge amount for water. Sources:
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/sticks-and-stoned/
http://www.jasonstaples.com/bible/a-bald-man-two-bears-and-forty-two-children-misinterpreted-bible-passages-6/
@ Petah-Petah:
You’re omitting masturbating. God once smote a man for that.
Unclever title wrote:
“Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.” Matthew 12:31
“And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” John 3:19
@Larisa’s concern for being damned
“And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.” Luke 9:54-56