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Online Cartoonist Finds Financial Success Offline
destinyland writes "The first collection of Perry Bible Fellowship comics has racked up pre-sales of $300,000 due to its huge online following. Within seven weeks the volume required a third printing. Ironically, the 25-year-old cartoonist speculates people would rather read his arty comics in a book than on a computer screen, and warns that 'There's something wonderful, and soon-to-be mythic, about the printed page...' He also explains the strange anti-censorship crusade in high school that earned him an FBI record!"
As far as I'm concerned the real issue is whether the contents of the bible are historical fact, a less than factual account of historical events, or pure fiction (or some combination of all the above). If you want to look at that book from the perspective of how it's been used in the modern era, then it's the most completely worthless and potentially the most destructive printed work known to man, because every asshole and his brother spins the damned thing to mean anything they want it to so they can justify whatever crimes against humanity they're looking for an excuse to commit.
You're just a coward who's too tolerant towards these superstitious dupes to have a little fun at their expense. I'm not your fellow member of some atheist kumbaya, and I'm not worried about your pious judgement of what I find amusing in mocking the bible. Besides, there's nothing about making a quick joke about the very same subject that the name of the comic mocks, and following it up with serious argument for those who want to argue about it, that makes "the rest of you" look bad. Whining like this makes you look bad: like there's some kind of "atheist agenda" that I'm revealing. I must have missed that revival meeting.
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Fuck you. I posted a tangential joke, some people wanted to argue and even discuss the point rationally, and I had some fun doing all of it. Along the way it seemed some people either learned something (including me, as always when discussing something complex with reasonable strangers), or at least heard something new about something they're interested in.
And some people didn't like it, all of them (including you) uptight dogmatists who think everyone should think and act about religion the way they do.
I like direct confrontation, even when it's strong enough that pussies like you think it's "rabid" just because you're too coward to do it yourself. Nothing I've said is remotely like firebombing a church - that evil scene just popped out of your demented mind. Nothing "militant", "rabid", "bile spewing", or any of the other insane bullshit that actually describes what you are posting, you deranged, self-blind shitard.
If I cared what onlooking religious brainwashees thought about me, the way that evidently tortures you so much, I wouldn't be provoking this stupid conflict over my perfect right to mock the crudely superstitious while seriously discussing what's actually valuable in their oafish dogma. "Look at the atheists fighting, only Jesus can bring peace to pagans like them." But so what? If even a paranoid coward like you can throw distorted angry trolls at me because I dared to both mock blind faith and respect the real thing, then of course I'm perfectly righteous in talking legitimately about the joke that is religion at the expense of the gift that is faith.
I mean, what the fuck are you telling me, anyway? That I shouldn't provoke the brutes with little jokes and some reasoning, without taking any of their shit? Because somehow I'm firebombing a church? That I should keep quiet purely because you yelled at me with a bunch of strawmen and projected images of hysterical attack? You sound like you're trying to be a little voice in my head telling me how to morally conduct myself. I'm not tempted, because you're an obvious joke troll yourself.
Fuck you very much for your generous contribution.
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