Letters to the Editor
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Falwell Stewing in Heaven
Now THAT's a pretty picture!
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Opus on Lola Granola
This installment reminds me of the first time Opus met Lola (years ago they were briefly married). Opus opens the door to the outside where Lola is standing; we haven't seen her yet. Opus says something to the effect of, "My, that's a lovely head of hair you have on your legs, there!"
Love it.
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Heaven Is in Your Mind
Hmmm. Everyone in heaven? Wouldn't that make heaven hell for Jerry?
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I like the suggestion that ...
for Falwell and his ilk, it is heaven to be eternally annoyed. Many evangelicals seem to spend a lot of time looking for things that could annoy them.
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
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Do they let people in heaven
who are always willing -- yea eager -- to cast the first stone? If so, Falwell must now owe much to a God who has turned out to be a universalist. It will be a dreadful adjustment for him. :-)
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I know her spiritual belief doesn't sound very plausable...
...but it sounds about as plausable as every other spiritual belief!
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That's a great concept of heaven and hell yet
If you go to heaven and still haven't let go of your own baggage yet, then it will really bother you when all the people you thought of as express-lane Hellbound show up in heaven too.
Then it will be Hell to you just as long as you can't get over it - an eternity that you can switch out of, just as soon as you're able to admit you were wrong.
Digging it.
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metasailor
Nice interpretation. Heaven as an opportunity for continuing personal growth in one's relationships with others. I could dig that.
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I could have done...
... without the "French people?" line, though.
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nice job opus
heaven, damnation, tomato, tomaaato.
depends on how you look at it.
but like the book says "...and a penguin shall show them the way."
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No Fire & Brimstone? Sign me up, Lola!!
Reminds me of when I first really understood and embraced Universalism:
I heard a Bible-thumping radio evangelist trying to explain why God didn't condemn sinners to eternal hellfire but rather burned them up after they'd suffered enough for their sins (a biblical, "extinctionist" position rather Roman Catholic theology of Eternal Damnation and Hell-fire.) He was apologizing for his God's "strange act" - you know, incinerating His wicked, wayward children because He "loves" them...
So when this evangelist earnestly argued that this cleansing hell-fire was actually "merciful", because "sinners wouldn't be happy in the world to come", that "God's Heaven would be Hell for sinners...", it hit me -- Okay... So there's no need for Hell...Send them ALL to Heaven!!
Ah, the spiritual economy of it all: No need for the ancient, barbaric tortures of Hell — Heaven can do double-duty depending upon each individual's spiritual frame of mind. All of the best theologians understood this afterall, e.g. Origen, Rabia al Basri, Julian of Norwich, the American Unitarians and Universalists... Nice to see it put so succinctly in the funny pages. If only we could put the moral principles involved in Lola's theological insight into practice in society at large.
You know, there are real world correlates to these mytho-theological images/concepts in politics and penology: Anyone who believes in a God of Hell-fire and Damnation is capable of striking a match and doing it themselves. Think about it... One of the big problems in our world is the people who believe in a God of Cruel and Unusual Punishments. They figure, "If it's alright for God to do it, it can be alright for me..." And then they just do it.
Our challenge is how to encourage them to mature and grow beyond their mistaken misunderstandings of Divinity. It's work...but exquisite cartoons like this one can be helpful.
This one's for the sermon files!
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Lola's heaven
would not be complete without Hamas and the Zionists.
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Opus Rules! Or. ..so far, so good. . .
What with last week's superb strip and now this little gem, I once again find myself becoming a serious Opus devotee.
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I should think the atheists would be most annoyed...
...and everyone would be annoyed with Hitler.
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Agree, Atheists would be annoyed because
Atheists might be annoyed that all those folks are invaded the paradise they found first.
And if that doesn't annoy you enough, Have you ever considered the possibility that Hitler's lobbyist hasn't yet unleashed his best effort?
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Falwell's Heaven
So it turns out that God's idea for Falwell's heaven is that it will be his hell! Right on, God!
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An atheist in heaven
Speaking as an atheist, I wouldn't feel annoyed. Surprised, yes, but not annoyed.
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Heaven has no fury like a nation scorned
A place with a sense of grace? No green card required since we'll all be immigrants in Opus heaven? No security, no border patrols? No surrveillance? No dissembling liars-in-charge, leading the heavenly robed assembly? You could say - I'll bet my life on it - this is the place where one can still speak out even if no one agrees with you and you won't be taken away to some dark hole and given the water board treatment until you confess to whatever? Plus affordable health care will not exactly be a 'given', but no longer necessary? Sounds like heaven to me considering what's been happening down here lately. And the fastest way to get there if you're in a hurry is take a suspension bridge out of town like the tried and true Minneapolis I-35 over the Mississippi. You'll get there. Trust me. God bless. beryl k gullsgate
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correction...Heaven has no fury like a nation scorned...
I must have pushed the wrong key...I don't publish anonymously ever...beryl k gullsgate
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One person's heaven is another person's....
If the reason why life on Earth here is so darn annoying is because of other people than how would such an inclusive Heaven be ....heavenly? Wouldn't we quickly trash that paradise like we did this one?
I'm not even sure I believe there is a heaven, and I don't subscribe to the good ol' boys tree-house rules of no girls/jews/gays/cross eyed taxi drivers allowed. But as much as Falwell would be pissed, wouldn't the ACLU? Wouldn't we all?
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Hell would be
Meeting all of you in person. For eternity.
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Mr. Breathed seems to be finally hitting his stride.
I've laughed out loud at his last two comics. It's been years since I've found his work funny.
Wonderful! Welcome back Berke!
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atheists in heaven....
would HARDLY be annoyed...speaking for myself i would GLADLY switch off after 80-90 years of hard headed rational full of anxiety over death to an eternity of life after the fact.
never seen any evidence to support it....but taken on it's own....sounds quite nice!
side note: must restrain sexist commentary.....can't give up....trying.....ah, screw it.....ms granola is smokin!