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!"

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[Doc Ruby]

No, I said "even the tiniest proof" that the bible isn't a myth is necessary if we were going to argue. But of course the tiniest proof is not sufficient. Proof that a star appeared as described in the bible (even though you offered proof of something unlike what's described as "a star") isn't even proof that the bible is not a myth. You could just as well point at the Earth, which is also mentioned in the bible, or the Egyptian pyramids, or Jerusalem as a whole, or even irrefutable records of a "Mary and Joseph of Egypt, with newborn Jesus of Bethlehem" etc, which obviously don't prove the mythical parts of the bible's story. You know, the miraculous parts (and I'm not talking about whether Jesus' DNA doesn't match Joseph's).

But all that, as I've been saying, is precisely opposite the point of the bible: faith. You fell for it by acting like proof of the myth is important compared to the faith it would destroy.

I can never get enough of faithy people hungering for scientific things like proof that someone rose from the dead, or was both merely human and infinitely divine, in trade for the more valuable faith that such proof would destroy. It's like someone revealed Santa was Dad carelessly to you way back when, and y'all still demand not just the presents, but also the suit and beard, and that he now actually come down the chimney, and not kiss Mommy.