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I'm confused Rule (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)

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[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 83 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Dude steals from ATM

Dude repents

Dude turns himself in

Dude finds gratitude in the teachings of the holy book he is reading

Dude turned his life around and got stable job

Dude talks to partner in crime, saying they knew each other

The objective of the image is probably to say that religion saves a man from evil/breaking the law. Nothing else.

[-] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 53 points 11 months ago

Ask a person with a larceny conviction under their belt which is more plausible: the existence of God or that they could ever get a job servicing ATMs with their record.

Then ask them if they're more likely to be hired for any job by a left-wing atheist or right-wing Christian.

[-] Sho@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

Exactly, the last 2 panels wouldn't have happened. Freaking fluff piece..

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Seriously. Getting any job with a criminal record is an incredible feat, but a bank letting someone who once robbed ATMs work as an ATM technician is so impossible it may as well be fantasy.

[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 23 points 11 months ago

It's like Chick-Tracts with better art and somehow worse reasoning.

[-] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Pros: unlike Jack Chick, this guy also has moral comics with messages like "pushing religion on people is hurtful and bad", "judging people is a full-on sin", and "televangelists and their ilk are basically evil"

Cons: slightly creepy, young-earth creationist, nowhere near as much accidental comedy value as Chick Tracts

[-] NateNate60@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

You can call it misplaced, unfunny, or naïve but I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with it. Plenty of people in prison use religion as a means of self-improvement and then wrench themselves back onto the straight path after their release.

(I feel that if I don't say "an equal number of people use religion as a justification for evil deeds" someone will mention it. Religion doesn't make you a good person in itself. It's your actions that decide that and religion is a means to that.)

[-] AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Religion doesn’t make you a good person in itself. It’s your actions that decide that and religion is a means to that.

and this comic is directly contradicting that. the implication is very much that finding religion saved that man. so, choose.

[-] NateNate60@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

It can save people. I'm saying it doesn't always do that and occasionally it works the other way around. It is not a binary "yes" or "no".

But if we have the opportunity to trade a robber for an evangelist, then I'll take that trade any day. Robbers actively hurt society as their dayjob. Evangelists at most just talk and vote annoyingly (depending on your political views)

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

Basically my interpretation as well. There's also a bible verse in the bottom right corner. If you look it up it talks about one's face being changed when they find God, which is why his former partner in crime doesn't recognize him. I think the comic is also trying to explain the "changing your face" thing is metaphorical. His face didn't change, his attitude and life did.

[-] CarlsIII@kbin.social 59 points 11 months ago

Who is this person and why do his comic keep getting posted here?

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 57 points 11 months ago

He's a christian comic writer. Why do they keep getting posted? My fucking sides omg. This dude is so fucking wildly ignorant of the world.

[-] CarlsIII@kbin.social 26 points 11 months ago

It seems kinda hard to tell since his comics don’t make much sense

[-] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 48 points 11 months ago

A tale as old as time.

I thief is caught and returns the money he and his accomplice stole. He reads a book to shorten his prison sentence. When he gets out of jail, he finds work as a cheap technician as guys new employer doesn't bother with background checks to save money. His old accomplice encounters him. With his new training and uniform, they can more easily steal and get away with it.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

For some perspective, law enforcement takes more money through asset forfeiture than all the burglaries combined. In 2015 it was $5 billion in personal assets without any evidence it was related to crime.

White collar crime (think of Halliburton war profiteering or the Sacklers starting the fentanyl addiction and overdose epidemic) cause more death, more cost, more destruction than all petty crime (that includes homicide) by multiple orders of magnitude. All of the departments that investigate white collar crime are underfunded, like the IRS.

One of the most effective ways to stop petty crime — or mob syndicates — is to make sure people in your neighborhood are not in poverty or in precarity. Once people don't know where their kids' next meal is coming from, they will get desperate.

Jesus doesn't save criminals. Mutual aid and social programs do. Jesus just blames the individual as if going hungry is a character flaw.

[-] rez_doggie@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Acab. Smoke more pork

[-] faceless@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

stop posting this guy here holy fuck

[-] CaptnKarisma@lemmy.ml 20 points 11 months ago

I really doubt they would let him be an atm tech though. Who made that hiring call, he is probably now explaining to his buddy that he now discretely steals small amounts from the atms under the guise of a job