Discussion (10)¬

1. Vel says:

   November 20, 2024 at 4:02 pm

   heh, well done.

2. paradoctor says:

   November 20, 2024 at 6:49 pm

   They do so for the same reason that a man with jaundice sees yellow everywhere.

3. Donn Cave says:

   November 21, 2024 at 12:47 am

   Someone with that kind of blog or whatever, could write a series on cognitive biases, and illustrate with these panels if that could be worked out. It’s good stuff.

4. jb says:

   November 21, 2024 at 5:19 am

   I’m not weird! Lots of people read webcomics!

5. arbeyu says:

   November 22, 2024 at 1:58 pm

   I’ve come across this bias when speaking with liberal Christians.

   You’re are accused of attacking a straw-man because you’re attacking a simplistic belief that “most” Christians don’t share. “Most” Christians don’t believe in miracles or a literal “Devil” or any of the silly stuff. “Most” Christians apparently have a far more subtle theology.

   Oh, yeah?

   You hear that the Vatican are about to canonise a London-born teenager who died in 2006 after the supposedly miraculous healing of a university student in Florence who had bleeding on the brain after suffering head trauma.

   And you hear that the Pope gave King Charles a relic of the “True Cross” as a coronation present. Really? The “True” Cross?

   In my opinion, liberal Christians are labouring under a consensus bias in thinking that “most” Christians share their sutble, non-literal, it’s-all-an-allegory beliefs.

6. Donn Cave says:

   November 22, 2024 at 8:38 pm

   They can just point out that most people don’t listen to the pope. On the bright side, among that population, the religion is getting thinner and more translucent, and eventually it will be a notion of little consequence. We have plenty to worry about from the ones who believe they’re going to be raptured etc.

7. M27Holts says:

   November 23, 2024 at 9:08 am

   Raptured aye. Being atomised by a H-Bomb pretty much the same thing…but no afterlice solace in either case…typo intended…

8. M27Holts says:

   November 26, 2024 at 4:28 pm

   One true cross? Didn’t the romans prefer natural fixing points such as Trees? Just another nail in the coffin of the Jesus myth…

9. postdoggerel says:

   November 27, 2024 at 9:50 am

   Christians can be thankful the Romans did not prefer impalement.

10. M27Holts says:

    November 27, 2024 at 11:22 am

    Or being flayed and dipped in vinegar….