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Hello fellow Far Side fans!

About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.

The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side

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 The Far Side!

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[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Being a Jewish atheist myself I guess I qualify for two.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, just Atheist

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, you clearly don’t have a grasp on what the full meaning of either is. But I am exactly as I stated. You should not presume to know other people especially strangers you’ve never met.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Jewish atheism is the atheism of people who are ethnically and (at least to some extent) culturally Jewish.

"Jewish atheism" is not a contradiction because Jewish identity encompasses not only religious components but also, and for most Jews mainly, ethnic and cultural ones. Jewish law's emphasis on descent through the mother means that even religiously conservative Orthodox Jewish authorities would accept an atheist born to a Jewish mother as fully Jewish.

I was talking about religion. It's impossible to be a religious Jew and an Atheist. Sure, "Jew" means a lot of things such as race and a culture, but this conversation was about religion so mixing it like that is intellectually dishonest, so it's best to nip it in the bud before people start twisting words with different definitions. Jesus was ethnically a Jew, so were the Disciples and many in the Church to this day are ethnically Jews, so to claim Jews are against Jesus and to start talking about race is a dangerous rabbit-hole.

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes I see your point. And I was raised completely orthodox so I’m familiar with that aspect of it and how much of a part it plays. But yes I consider myself very much to be a Jew in more than just lineage. But I do take your point.

Regarding Jews regard for Jesus in general the attitude is that if he even existed, he was trying to change things in a way that would corrupt the religion. People have many many theories but most scholars don’t even concede he even existed. There are Jesus-like characters with many of the same traits that are part of religions that predate all abrahamic lore.

Stuff is very complex. Weird though how this discussion moved into this. I like it though. I mean, I was only joking around with my comment but I’m happy to have engaged in this convo. Very nice.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

most scholars don’t even concede he even existed.

(I presume this isn't regarding Jewish scholars and just scholars in general) This isn't true- like at all. Jesus mysticism isn't a mainstream scholarly opinion, even among secular scholars like Bart Ehrman who wrote in his book Did Jesus exist?

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Despite the enormous range of opinion, there are several points on which virtually all scholars of antiquity agree. Jesus was a Jewish man, known to be a preacher and teacher, who was crucified (a Roman form of execution) in Jerusalem during the reign of the Roman emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was the governor of Judea

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It is fair to say that mythicists as a group, and as individuals, are not taken seriously by the vast majority of scholars in the field of New Testament, early Christianity, ancient history, and theology

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One could argue as well that Jesus is the most important person in the history of the West, looked at from a historical, social, or cultural perspective, quite apart from his religious significance

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The idea that Jesus did not exist is a modern notion. It has no ancient precedents. It was made up in the eighteenth century. One might as well call it a modern myth, the myth of the mythical Jesus

Who also wrote for the Huffington Post:

Moreover, the claim that Jesus was simply made up falters on every ground. The alleged parallels between Jesus and the "pagan" savior-gods in most instances reside in the modern imagination: We do not have accounts of others who were born to virgin mothers and who died as an atonement for sin and then were raised from the dead (despite what the sensationalists claim ad nauseum in their propagandized versions).

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Wow you so went to far too much effort. I could cite a million references that agree with what I stated as well. I’m not going to because I never intended for this to turn into a kind of debate. You can choose to believe what you want, regardless of reality; I mean, that’s what religious belief is. You seem to seek out whatever agrees with you and don’t bother to learn the contrary. Or maybe you do. Whatever. I really have no intention to continue this. What I wanted to say has been said, so, fini.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 11 hours ago

Truth is objective and immovable. And it's an undeniable fact that Jesus of Nazareth is a real figure.