Religion : Ruining Everything Since 404 B.C.

The intelligent, funny, deeply, deeply nerdy Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is one of my all-time favorite webcomics, right up there with xkcd. Heck, these days, I think it might have surpassed xkcd.

The previous collection of SMBC comics was science-themed, and this one follows up on it with a religious theme. Christianity is by far the dominant religion represented here, but there's also a fair amount of Buddhism and a smattering of others, including a couple of appearances by Zeus. Some of the comics riff on familiar tropes: there's lots of people getting surprises when they reach the Pearly Gates or slowly realizing they're actually in hell, lots of people asking God "Why do bad things happen to good people?" or "Why don't show more miracles happen anymore?" and getting complicated and exasperated answers, and lots of Jesus doing party tricks, but there's also lots of comics that defy ready summary. Some are just mild silliness, while others seemed shockingly blasphemous even to unrepentant atheist me. Some are only a little amusing, while others made me laugh loud and long. Actually, there are a lot of ones that did that last thing. It was great. I mean, clearly this is not for everybody. But for me? It was great. show less

More comics from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (and just a few extras at the end).

Comics about religion that will appeal to people who like science, math, and/or (!) religion. Probably not so funny to casually religious (or otherwise uninterested in the bible) readers, but more "umm....?" than offensive.

I don't think religion is giving itself enough credit if it thinks it's only ruined things for just over six thousand years. Humans have been around longer than that.

funny, biting, hilarious