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Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!
About this community and how I post the comics… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net) and a an extra or two randoms.
Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness
Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, media, cool stuff about the authors, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Cyanide and Happiness related!
Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities…
Bello Bear [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial
Bloom County [email protected] https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty
Calvin and Hobbes [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes
Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness
Garfield [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/garfield
The Far Side [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.
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BTW this is a misconception, Jesus is not the literal son of god because Jesus is god, something cannot beget itself, Jesus is indeed the son of Joseph and Marry, and the idea that Mary is a virgin comes from a misunderstanding of the belief that she was born without sin.
People mistook that to mean that she gave birth without sin, but sex in marriage isn't a sin in most religions, so Marry having conceived the child with Joseph is just fine.
The idea of Jesus as some kind of demigod was more a flubbism of the idea to make the early religion more understandable to greek converts who would have previously existed in a cultural context of heroic figures literally being the demigod children of gods.
Tl;Dr, Jesus is Joseph's bio kid, Marry was born without original sin and that's the kind of innocence that made her special not having given birth as a virgin, Jesus is God not the son of God
This is one interpretation of the story, but definitely not the accepted interpretation amongst the varying sects of Christianity.
Catholicism espouses that Mary was without sin, and Protestants generally disagree (Lutherans being the notable exception). They also believe that the trinity is intertwined yet separate (God is the father, Jesus the son, and the spirit a procession of both)
Most protestant sects generally believe that Mary was not without sin, but did indeed become pregnant without sex. They consider Jesus the biological son of God, and therefore fully human and fully divine (this is supposed to be a paradox and not make sense). Jesus is affirmed to be God's actual son in all 4 gospels and several of the Epistles.
There doesn't need to be a "logical" explanation free of contradictions and impossibilities in Jesus's origin, simply due to the fact that he is God, and therefore above human understanding.
Source: I grew up in the church and was surrounded by theologians against my will. I got out, but the knowledge is still knocking around in my head.