Dumbing of Age

That is a fair point, considering stuff like the Jedi code being treated as actual religion.

Isn't that just a joke to see how far you can push the census people?

This is why I think biblical literalism and biblical inerrancy are theological positions that are ultimately bad for Christianity.

It was both. Britain has a law saying that if enough people (I want to say ten thousand, might be less) write down a specific religion on the census, it becomes an official religion. A lot of people were trolling the census, but others genuinely consider it their religion, and now they've been shafted because the rules have been changed.

edited 17th Apr '14 10:49:58 AM by Discar

No, not really. Apart from the fact that the whole joke originated in Australia anyway, the only "official" religion we have in the UK is the established Church of England. All that happened here during the last census was that the census office assigned "Jedi" its own code number, because 0.8% of the forms is enough to justify that to save some typing.

People taking Jedism serious is not the same as comparing the Transformer fandom to religious people[[notw]]which is what this strip was about[[/note]]. Fandoms act like a religion, but they are not, really. People won't put "brony" in their census when asked about religion. They, in general, don't consider the fandom as a way to guide how they live. Nonetheless, their discussion and actions mirror how religious people acts between itself.

It's not so much that fandoms act like (or are) religions, as that religions act like (are?) fandoms. Heck, I've known religious people to admit that the non-canonical gospels are actually a bunch of fanfic.

edited 17th Apr '14 2:59:06 PM by Spindriver

Fair point.

I have arrived at the present day!

I am really glad I didn't catch up like three months ago.

As a different kind of good book says...

Now the joke is fandom act like religion, I think.

I remember seeing TV shows involving talking anthropomorphic hymnals and kids being transported into bible stories. They were really cheesy, in retrospect.

I'm reminded of Psalty, the singing Psalmnal, but I only recall that series being audio.

Those pesky copyright laws, getting in the way of good music.

Man, Joyce is dense as all hell.

YOU HAVE NO AUTHORITY OVER YOUR LIFE CHOICES - The musical.

Wonder which 2/3rds.....

The middle one is likely a double handjob. The first one might be nipple tweaking, and the third might be hoisting someone up on her shoulders for oral. Tough to say without motion.

Well, Joe said it was only wo thirds of the choreography that he have seem in porn, so the last motion might be the one innocent gesture.

Other people in the on-site comments have seen the same. Somebody said it looked like 3/3.

To me, Joe would one see the third one in a porn if he's got an asphyxiation fetish.

I admit I have a fondness for some of the Christian media I watched as a kid like Veggie Tales, and Adventures In Odyssey, but this sounds far too Calvinist for my tastes.

@ the Psalty thing, there were videos. Really really low-budget videos that had all the lines and songs from the tapes (or records as the tapes always said) in what looked like the main street of some little town in the middle of nowhere.

Anything but the rumpy-pumpy!

Know thy priorities.

This will lead to some sort of water-sports the next time the author does porn for food, right?