lizwuzthere asked:

Since I was never around people who interpreted the bible literally growing up, I've never been able to understand why some people cling so desperately to that interpretation of it. But today Joyce put it in terms that I had never considered before. Obviously I still think ignoring science in favor of myth is a bad idea, but your comic today definitely shared a perspective no one had tried to show me before... I think I can understand that kind of thinking a little bit better. Thanks Willis!

Today’s strip also helped my wife understand a little better where my childhood religion was coming from, as her family’s Catholicism is a little more “God’s great, let’s get drunk” than my family’s Protestant-style “here is a list of five dozen interlocking dogmas you must be in lockstep with or you will spend eternity in torment.”  

Like, y’know, “oh, okay.  I guess that makes a little sense.”  Not, like AGREEING with it, obviously, but seeing finally the blueprints of the rabbit hole I’d found myself in at one point in time.  

That said, I’m way cool with “God’s great, let’s get drunk.”  I don’t even need the first half, but if that’s the excuse we’ve decided on, the ends justify the means, y’know?