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Mr. Fish Toon- A Free Man (Original Post) n2doc May 2016 OP
Yep. hunter May 2016 #1
The truth. n/t Greybnk48 May 2016 #2
the K & R.... dhill926 May 2016 #3
:) vicman May 2016 #4
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. Thomas Paine k&r Tierra_y_Libertad May 2016 #5
K&R awoke_in_2003 May 2016 #6
I was thinking the same thing smiley May 2016 #9
K & R mountain grammy May 2016 #7
I was never a big Charles Shultz fan, but only this minute realized BlueStreak May 2016 #8
Schultz was a Baptist and a Sunday school teacher nxylas May 2016 #15
One has to manage lots of cognitive dissonance in a religion-dominated world BlueStreak May 2016 #16
Great cartoon Gothmog May 2016 #10
dayum. Schema Thing May 2016 #11
k&r Electric Monk May 2016 #12
There it is! If you can see it. Enthusiast May 2016 #13
Too many words. Can somebody summarize it on a bumper sticker for me? Binkie The Clown May 2016 #14

mountain grammy

(27,335 posts)
7. K & R
Sun May 22, 2016, 10:29 AM
May 2016

Kind of reminds me of Garth Brooks:

"We Shall Be Free"

This ain't comin' from no prophet
Just an ordinary man
When I close my eyes I see
The way this world shall be
When we all walk hand in hand

When the last child cries for a crust of bread
When the last man dies for just words that he said
When there's shelter over the poorest head
We shall be free

When the last thing we notice is the color of skin
And the first thing we look for is the beauty within
When the skies and the oceans are clean again
Then we shall be free

We shall be free
We shall be free
Stand straight, walk proud
'Cause we shall be free
When we're free to love anyone we choose
When this world's big enough for all different views
When we all can worship from our own kind of pew
Then we shall be free
We shall be free

We shall be free
Have a little faith
Hold out
'Cause we shall be free

And when money talks for the very last time
And nobody walks a step behind
When there's only one race and that's mankind
Then we shall be free

We shall be free
We shall be free
Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith, hold out
We shall be free

We shall be free
We shall be free
Stand straight, have a little faith

We shall be free

 

BlueStreak

(8,377 posts)
8. I was never a big Charles Shultz fan, but only this minute realized
Sun May 22, 2016, 10:30 AM
May 2016

the implication of "The Great Pumpkin." Shultz' audience was that lily-white, bible-thumpin', Jaysus-preacin' crowd. It was quite a trick to keep dishing out the saccharin over the years while slipping in the subtext of this Pumpkin uber-being. It must have given him considerable devious pleasure to see that Shultz' version of "The Flying Spaghetti Monster" indeed flew right over the heads of his audience.

nxylas

(6,440 posts)
15. Schultz was a Baptist and a Sunday school teacher
Mon May 23, 2016, 05:23 AM
May 2016

He maintained that the Great Pumpkin was not an attack on religious belief per se, but on the commercialisation of Christmas. No, me neither, but that's what he said.

 

BlueStreak

(8,377 posts)
16. One has to manage lots of cognitive dissonance in a religion-dominated world
Mon May 23, 2016, 02:27 PM
May 2016

Maybe the "Great Pumpkin" was Shultz' way of dealing with it.

I would rather people would just be honest, standing up saying "This is bullcrap! We shouldn't let these cults dominate our world. We shouldn't fill our children's brains full of this crap. We should recognize we are here together and we have to find a way to get along without having to invent imaginary characters."

But if he did, he would end up like Mr Fish instead of being enormously wealthy. Integrity has its price.

"Over the nearly 50 years that Peanuts was published, Schulz drew nearly 18,000 strips. The strips themselves, plus merchandise and product endorsements, produced revenues of more than $1 billion per year, with Schulz earning an estimated $30 million to $40 million annually."

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