Strip 7/17: Does the church want you stupid? Absolutely!

Kilgore · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 2833 Location: Portland, Or

Am I the only one who noticed the clear parallels between the strip and the story of Adam and Eve? I mean, the devil was in a tree, for crying out loud!
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Germ · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 6:36 pm Post subject:

I'm reminded of Nancy Reagan's Just Say No campaign and, to a lesser extent, the episode of That's My Bush with Laura Bush's You'd Have to Be High to Do Drugs campaign.

thewaitersitsondown · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 6:45 pm Post subject:

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Halen · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 1883 Location: England

I am officially swearing off these threads starting from now, because oh my GOD this is annoying.

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MsFrisby · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:32 pm Post subject:

thewaitersitsondown · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:34 pm Post subject:

And god it was beautiful.

Zorlond · Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 171

I recall wandering into those old forums one day, saw someone had made a comment on the comic, and everybody (and I do mean everybody) took turns flaming him into oblivion. And they weren't even pissed over what he said. They were pissed that he dared to mention the Sinfest comic on the Sinfest forums. [sarcasm] Yeah, real beautiful, man. [/sarcasm] I'm quite surprised Tatsuya never did a comic mocking that behavior. Because it was so freakin' ripe, man. And he'd've had you dead to rights, just like he's got organized religion dead to rights now.

thewaitersitsondown · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:56 pm Post subject:

First, thank you for denoting your sarcasm with those handy tags. I would never have detected it otherwise.
Second, while I can't know just how long ago the events you've described occurred, I can say that in the entire time I posted on the old forums, I never once saw someone flamed for talking about the comic. I have seen plenty of people flamed for making stupid comments on the comic, or for complaining about a lack of updates, but I can't imagine someone being attacked for having something interesting and worthwhile to say. We are intolerant of stupidity and pointlessness masquerading as discussion, not discussion of Sinfest itself.

[edited for a nicer sentence]

Mizike · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 5125 Location: Iowa City

Write a comic mocking that behavior?