In the tagalog version of this strip, the pastry is called Solomon mamon.
And for those who don’t get the biblical reference, leave this site and proceed to bible.com.
If you’re not Catholic, then remain on this page.
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Beerkada Online Comics by Lyndon Gregorio
Bible disclaimer: May contain fables and historical inaccuracies. Should not be taken literally. Not recommended for children and adults without sense of the theatrical and over exaggeration. May contain violence in the first part and second part. The Bible is not responsible for any act of violence committed in the name of religion. It’s just humans being the crazy flawed narcissistic hateful life form.
Well, duh. But I still like taking the bible literally. Makes the past seem more miraculous than our current state of freak accidents and genetic anomalies. We gasp when we see a dog driving a truck but we’d write off stigmata as some kind of disease and psychological defect. Messed up. I like bible stories because people back then could believe in miracles.
well, despite the flawed narcissistic lifeforms that they are anyway. So are we anyway, but probably more civilized to know better than to sell and kill our own children.
Your first post is full of logical pitfalls and your second post is proven wrong by history. Oh Mary, what are you? 13?
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hmmm nice L . 😀 proper netiquette is very handy as far as im concerned. 😀
thanks for the rules and regulations Lyndon…
sorry if i might sound like a preacher or something BUT…
Anyone who says that the Bible has historical inaccuracies, please state one first before declaring that as a fact…
anyways, mrL ngyn ko lng nagets kung bkt puro biblical ang sandwiches mo… this serves as your holy week special… tama ba? i like how you incorporated humor with some of the stories in the bible, without being blasphemous… i think? hehe…
ang aga nyo ah. hahaha! 😀
isa lang masasabi ko sa Comics mo! It makes me wanna eat Sandwich!
YUMM YUMM YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMY
😛
ngyn ko lng napansin… may special appearance pla si dave barista… cool…
(sheepishly) Sorry, Lyndon if I got carried away in my opinions there at some point. Didn’t mean for them to sound rude. ahehe. Sometimes my fingers type faster than my brain can register what I’m thinking. I will from now on carefully observe your rules on netiquette Mr. L so that I can avoid offending anyone. 🙂
Will: OH SO NOW YOU’RE AN AGEIST HUH? SO NOW YOU THINK I’M JUST SOME IMMATURE KID WHO DOESN’T KNOW WHAT SHE’S TALKING ABOUT WHEN SHE POSTS A COMMENT? Well, I’m above taking such bigotry personally so I’m am just going to stick my tongue out at you from my laptop. So there. >P
hahaha. just kidding will. Even if I were 13 I think I would still feel the same way. And yeah you’re right, History has proven my statement wrong. Sadly. Sigh….wotta world.
Next thing you know Aling Macbeal is going to be crucified. XP
rehaz Says:
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:55 am
thanks for the rules and regulations Lyndon…
sorry if i might sound like a preacher or something BUT…
Anyone who says that the Bible has historical inaccuracies, please state one first before declaring that as a fact…
The 6th commandment according to the Roman Catholic Dogma
Thou Shall not KILL!!!
1 Samuel 15:3
Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; PUT TO DEATH (in other words, KILL) men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.
(c) NIV,
is that an inaccuracy or is it merely human misunderstanding?
wow…all these biblical references. hehehe…creatively funny. ^_^
hmm..what else do you have? you missed the Golden calf. galing nung 10 plagues.
Ang tanda na ni Aling McBeal. hehehe…
yeah, i’ve noticed, aling mcbeal definitely aged, but golden calf? Pcow will definitely go on strike.. and was the lechon, Enigbaboy?
KenMikaze…
It’s easy to state many “contradictions” from the bible. But if you study the bible and really look at the context of every verse, your views might change.
Now just to give my rebuttal on your post, the 6th commandment is “Thou shall not murder”. Murder in the dictionary is “the unlawful killing of one human by another, especially with premeditated malice.” Therefore, Murder is a subset of Killing. Meaning, If you murdered someone, you definitely killed that person. But if you killed someone (i.e. war, accidental killing), it doesn’t necessarily mean you murdered that person. (Sorry if I explained my position the engineer’s way. It’s the only way I know how)
Now, I know you can come up with more contradictions. And I hope I can answer anything you can throw at the Bible (I’ll try, but I’m not a pastor). But I think this is not the right forum for that. You can send me an email if you still want to have this discussion. I just can’t sit here and not comment on a post that touches on a very integral part of my faith.
Anyway, I hope we could go back to what this site is intended for (or what the writer would want us to think it is), humor. =P
Tenkouken: wag naman sana… what will happen to Bryan… he might hang himself… hehe
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duh, rehaz, you’re definitely rattling the wrong bush. I said, Roman Catholic Dogma, the 6th commandment… Thou shalt not KILL not MURDER….and besides, the real 6th commandment is Thou Shalt not STEAL… And I did add the final Disclaimer, “Is that an inaccuracy or is it merely human misunderstanding?”
whoo sure is! Glad someone like rehaz can speak up for her faith better than some people. Wow ha? now that’s something. 🙂
ACK! Wait I’m sorry I wrote “her” on rehaz! I’m not entirely sure that’s the proper pronoun given I don’t know rehaz’s gender! Sooo Sorryyyy!
mary, lalaki po ako… =) hehe
i though you were really 13 before I read ur post at 2:06pm… sabi ko nga sa sarili ko, lupit naman nitong 13 yr old na ito… hehe
dude I’m 17 just so you know. The concept of maturity is not proportional to your age. You can be like will and have the maturity of a 12 year old, whereas I can be childish but mature in turns
Before we continue the discussion about the commandments, we need to clear up one thing:
The ten commandments we know now aren’t the ten commandments mentioned in the Bible.
The 10 commandments we know (Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not commit adultery, etc.) are not called ‘commandments’ in the Bible, but ‘words’ which ‘God spake’, and were not written down. There are a different set of rules which were written down on two stone tablets and were mentioned as ‘commandments’.
Here are the real 10 commandments as handed down by the LORD unto Moses (and plainly listed in Exodus 34:13-28).
I. Thou shalt worship no other god.
II. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
III.. The feast of unleavened bread thou shalt keep
IV. Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest.
V. Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.
VI. Thrice In the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God.
VII. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven.
VIII. Neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
IX. The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God.
X. Thou shalt not seethe a kid [ie, a young goat] in his mother’s milk.
That is true, L,however, the 10 commandments handed down to Moses, the one you quote, are for the Jews, not for us Gentiles.
My point, rather is that, the Bible is how you explain it, thus creating the chasm between understanding and plain absorbing.
I would take it the 10 Commandments we Catholics are used to is a translation of the 10 Commandments into our context
Its confusing though because in the bible, 10 commandments are given in passages in two books: Exodus and Deutoronomy. In Exodus chapter 20, God spake the commandments to Moses and the contents are somewhat similar to what is written in the book of Deutoronomy. Whille in the book of Exodus Chapter 34, the commandments given to Moses, as Mr. Lyndon said is written by God on stone. The passages contain 14-15 imperative statements. But the Bible itself assigns the count of “10”, using the Hebrew phrase aseret had’varim as reference. and translated as the 10 words, statements or things. Although this phrase does not appear in the passages usually presented as being “the Ten Commandments”. Various relgions are the ones who divided the commandments differently, according to their own interpretations.
But the passages or the one Mr. Lyndon refering to as the 10 commandments written by God on stone, though not incorrect, are not widely recognized as the 10 commandments but referred to as “The Tablets of Testimony” or “The Tables of the Covenant”.
And the passages in the tablet are interpreted different ways.
whew…
now Im hungry… I want a solomon cinnamon…
Wooow. How and where did you get your symbols for your username? :-0
Its the korean alphabet. My computer’s OS is korean version. That’s actually my name.
^ㅇ^
Dave Barrista!!!
T_T Love your work!!!
I just read your work at philippine star 😀
Just read this strip. Buti nga sa yo, L. This is what you get for running bible-themed strips. The weirdos start popping out.
And Rehaz, if you’re reading this, I can name at least five historical inaccuracies with the Bible. Let’s start with time frame; according to the Bible, the world would only be 5,000 years old. We know FOR FACT that that’s not true. The Gospels also do not line up well with each other, and yet they’re basically telling the same tale. I’m not even going to begin with all the non-existent kings in the old testament.
Which leads me to ask: WHY ON EARTH are you taking the Bible LITERALLY?!? You’re not supposed to! I know you will probably argue me to death over this, but here’s my take on this topic: It shouldn’t matter if the Bible is accurate or not. In the end, the message is what’s important, and whether the Bible is fact or fiction shouldn’t even have mattered to begin with.
did psychocow evolve from a monkey?
Why are we debating on something that’s irrelevant to the strip? Can we just enjoy the strip as it is and then comment on the theme involved? I don’t think the inconsistencies of the bible is part of it. Nor do I believe religion or the difference thereof is part of it either. The theme, I wish to remind my fellow beerkadets, is Aling McBeal creating a new menu of bible themed foodstuff that’s all. As for those points raised need I remind you people that the bible was written a long time ago back when they thought the world was flat and that the sun revolved around the earth and in those times 5000 years is an awfully long time. No matter how accurate any written account is, it will still be influenced by the current cultural mores (did i spell that right?) and beliefs that surround the writer or writers.
Lyndon: No. You did.
Jiro: This is all Mary and Will’s fault. Aren’t they married yet?
…and Benj begat PC, and PC begat psychoCOW, who grew udders after dabbling in animal testing.