I don’t get why she is getting sued in the first place. She has gained her power from a Legit Priest. she didn’t steal from Religion, Religion has given it to her.
Well, she isn’t a birth-forcing anti-immigrant Ayn-Rand-economist like so many all-caps CHRISTIANS, so she “must” be Satanic, as were the so-called “priests”. After all, who would pursue Socialist policies like helping the needy and downtrodden, welcoming the foreigner, and not accumulating obscene amounts of wealth for oneself (the clearest sign of God’s favor)? I mean, other than Jesus himself?
Also, angels are in the public domain. God is in the public domain. All of religion is in the public domain. Except Scientology®. Scientology® isn’t in the public domain.
Well, what they actually mean is “socially-progressive humanist;” it just comes out “capitalism-hating communist.” Must be some sort of speech impediment.
I spent a few hours trying to explain to one guy what the difference is between Bernie Sanders’s democratic socialism, Marx’s communist socialism, and the cold-war Soviet Union’s Leninism. The guy kept trying to draw parallels between Bernie’s policy proposals and the policies of the Soviet Union, despite not having the first clue about what Bernie’s policy proposals actually are. All the while, he kept calling both sides generic communism, which we were apparently fighting during the cold war, despite the fact that what the Soviet Union had wasn’t Marxist communist-socialism.
She gets a popular tribunal, right? Statistically speaking: 4 super-heroes, 4 super-villains and 4 “normal” oblivious people, right? I’m curious how this will pay out, as the liberal-hating fundamentalist judge cannot punish her without a guilty sentence first and foremost. Er, right?
Arbitration isn’t so much a streamlining of the process as much as it’s a change of venue away from the legal system and into the private arbitration system, which tends to favor corporations over the employees, far more than the court system does. That’s the reason that so many employment contracts force arbitration, nowadays.
“Well, you want the job, right? If you won’t put up with this shit, we have a dozen other applicants who will.”
They often work out very well for people with stupid little complaints against large corporations. Juries often award litigants millions of dollars for something that wasn’t even really the corporation’s fault.
He’s aware that Satanism is a religion, too, right?
Although, most Satanists that we hear about in the media are atheist trolls who are trying to fight the abuses of the first amendment by small-town fundamentalists who want to force their religion upon everyone around them.
That conversation would get the judged censured in real life – he decided on a ruling before even hearing opening arguments, which is hardly appropriate for judicial impartiality.
In any case, the key points in GG’s favor are:
1: Religion gave her her powers in the first place.
2: There’s no precedent for supers whose powers altered their appearance (Apart from shapeshifting) having any say in how their appearances changed.
3: She doesn’t look like a biblical angel anyway (Biblical angels actually look kinda freaky – there’s a reason why the first thing most angels say to mortals is ‘Fear Not’)
4: Even her halo isn’t necessarily biblicly accurate: while the floating gold torus is the common modern interpretation of what a halo looks like, Renaissance era paintings interpreted it as looking like an ornate gold plate that somebody glued to the back of the subjects head.
5: How can Religion be a single entity to submit the suit in the first place? GG’s appearance would be totally unoffensive to all non-Judeo-Christian religions, and there are probably a hundred or more of those, so one could make a case that unless ‘Religion’ is a group containing at least one representative of each of them, they don’t really represent Religion as a whole, and as such do not have the right to file the suit.
It would be amusing if the priest who created GG in the first place is one of the litigants here.
That conversation would get the judged censured in real life – he decided on a ruling before even hearing opening arguments, which is hardly appropriate for judicial impartiality.
And there are places that are much worse. In states like Texas, the judges answer to no one but the voters. Given how bat-shit insane the voters are in most of Texas and other parts of the south, judges can do all sorts of insane, unconstitutional things and get elected again and again, because the people of that county are all in favor of those unconstitutional activities.
Take the recent Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage. There have been multiple judges who have refused to comply with that ruling. Some made arguments to the effect that it was a federal ruling, which doesn’t apply to the states. There’s an amendment to the federal constitution that has a little something to say on the subject, I believe, but those judges don’t give a damn.
3: She doesn’t look like a biblical angel anyway (Biblical angels actually look kinda freaky – there’s a reason why the first thing most angels say to mortals is ‘Fear Not’)
Yeah, I think I know what you’re talking about. I’ve seen a bit of artwork of what angels are supposed to look like, according to some early Christian sects. Freaky geometric things with tentacles and wings and all sorts of stuff that would make H.P. Lovecraft lose his lunch.
4: Even her halo isn’t necessarily biblicly accurate: while the floating gold torus is the common modern interpretation of what a halo looks like, Renaissance era paintings interpreted it as looking like an ornate gold plate that somebody glued to the back of the subjects head.
There’s also some reason to think that early renditions might have been something along the lines of how Muhammad was drawn (despite bitch-fits by modern Muslims, against drawing him), which was with a holy fire surrounding his head, not a halo or plate or whatever. There are sometimes major changes in the trends in religious iconography, no matter how much religious sorts might want to deny that religion evolves over time.
5: How can Religion be a single entity to submit the suit in the first place?
I think that’s going to be part of the punchline, somewhere down the line. There has been a good deal of speculation, amongst those of us here in the peanut gallery, about someone getting involved who is behaving like patent trolls do.
GG’s appearance would be totally unoffensive to all non-Judeo-Christian religions, and there are probably a hundred or more of those
Far more than that … by at least an order of magnitude, probably. Hell, there are thousands of denominations of Christianity.
I’ve heard plenty of sources quoting a number in the tens of thousands, but at a certain point, you have to contemplate exactly what makes a given group a separate, distinct denomination. Does each individual Pentecostal cult count as its own denomination, or do they all fall under the heading of Pentecostalism? It gets very messy, when you try to group and analyze something so complex.
1. Not Religion. Looks like a priest, probably Catholic, channeling a higher power.
2. Yup. Breaking new ground indeed.
3. Oh, definitely. Not enough eyes and animalistic parts.
4. Great point, but it’s probably the dress that’s the focus.
5. Excellent point. Add “The Rabbi” and a Shao Lin monk to the witness list.
Heh heh heh. Thanks man. I figured that was probably what did it.
I still have the draft in Word, as I always do when composing long comments. If it didn’t get kicked through in 24 hours or so, I would have tried again without the links. Better with the links, of course, since they lead to things that I was using to make my points, so thanks for the kick through the moderation.
Doom Doom Dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom
Well…
I gotta say, I’m genuinely curious as to how this will turn out.
Same here, cause I’m confused on how GG hasn’t already been sued by them.
I don’t get why she is getting sued in the first place. She has gained her power from a Legit Priest. she didn’t steal from Religion, Religion has given it to her.
If I were her lawyers that’d be my argument.
Well, she isn’t a birth-forcing anti-immigrant Ayn-Rand-economist like so many all-caps CHRISTIANS, so she “must” be Satanic, as were the so-called “priests”. After all, who would pursue Socialist policies like helping the needy and downtrodden, welcoming the foreigner, and not accumulating obscene amounts of wealth for oneself (the clearest sign of God’s favor)? I mean, other than Jesus himself?
Great comment four out of five hats would rt if this were twitter
Also, angels are in the public domain. God is in the public domain. All of religion is in the public domain. Except Scientology®. Scientology® isn’t in the public domain.
A freedom hating liberal? Is he sure he knows what words mean?
He means: “capitalism-hating communist”, Tea Party slang, you know.
That makes about as much sense, which is to say none at all.
Well, what they actually mean is “socially-progressive humanist;” it just comes out “capitalism-hating communist.” Must be some sort of speech impediment.
I spent a few hours trying to explain to one guy what the difference is between Bernie Sanders’s democratic socialism, Marx’s communist socialism, and the cold-war Soviet Union’s Leninism. The guy kept trying to draw parallels between Bernie’s policy proposals and the policies of the Soviet Union, despite not having the first clue about what Bernie’s policy proposals actually are. All the while, he kept calling both sides generic communism, which we were apparently fighting during the cold war, despite the fact that what the Soviet Union had wasn’t Marxist communist-socialism.
The guy was a one-man mind-@#$%.
She gets a popular tribunal, right? Statistically speaking: 4 super-heroes, 4 super-villains and 4 “normal” oblivious people, right? I’m curious how this will pay out, as the liberal-hating fundamentalist judge cannot punish her without a guilty sentence first and foremost. Er, right?
It depends on the state. A jury is only garenteed by the 7th amendment in federal cases for Civil Suits.
What if the priest was working under an exorcism policy that binds the exorcisee to arbitration?
Then that priest is working for the holy office of the first bureaucrat. In red tape they trust.
Arbitration isn’t so much a streamlining of the process as much as it’s a change of venue away from the legal system and into the private arbitration system, which tends to favor corporations over the employees, far more than the court system does. That’s the reason that so many employment contracts force arbitration, nowadays.
“Well, you want the job, right? If you won’t put up with this shit, we have a dozen other applicants who will.”
Yup.
Juries are a thing in criminal court, this is a civil suit
I mean, she COULD request a jury, but its not garrunteed, and juries are just generally a bad idea in civil court anyway
They often work out very well for people with stupid little complaints against large corporations. Juries often award litigants millions of dollars for something that wasn’t even really the corporation’s fault.
You know, I think what really does it is the red tie…
Can’t wait for GG or BGG to go all Punisher on the stand.
Pretty sure judge J.J. Jameson just recused himself from the case due to personal bias.
Because Scalia recused himself whenever he suffered from a lack of impartiality …
I was thinking that Thunderbolt Ross retired from the army and pursued a career at law.
I hope he’s just the accusatory part and not the judge.
He’s the judge, that’s why he refers to it as a case on his docket that’s what a judge would say not a prosecutor.
I so hope Relgion gets banned after this trial.
Amen
He’s aware that Satanism is a religion, too, right?
Although, most Satanists that we hear about in the media are atheist trolls who are trying to fight the abuses of the first amendment by small-town fundamentalists who want to force their religion upon everyone around them.
I didn’t know they were in Texas.
Wow, the irony here is beautiful. I have nothing bad to say about this comic.
(its its its its its its)
freedom lover that hates real freedom…actually disturbingly accurate to real life
Hey, freedom in the bedroom doesn’t count, you commie!!!
Ok, so moustache lawyer at least chose the right color of pants for this day.
By the way GGG looks real good with that attire and I’m really glad that she lost the piggy tails.
I think she’s in power saving mode.
That conversation would get the judged censured in real life – he decided on a ruling before even hearing opening arguments, which is hardly appropriate for judicial impartiality.
In any case, the key points in GG’s favor are:
1: Religion gave her her powers in the first place.
2: There’s no precedent for supers whose powers altered their appearance (Apart from shapeshifting) having any say in how their appearances changed.
3: She doesn’t look like a biblical angel anyway (Biblical angels actually look kinda freaky – there’s a reason why the first thing most angels say to mortals is ‘Fear Not’)
4: Even her halo isn’t necessarily biblicly accurate: while the floating gold torus is the common modern interpretation of what a halo looks like, Renaissance era paintings interpreted it as looking like an ornate gold plate that somebody glued to the back of the subjects head.
5: How can Religion be a single entity to submit the suit in the first place? GG’s appearance would be totally unoffensive to all non-Judeo-Christian religions, and there are probably a hundred or more of those, so one could make a case that unless ‘Religion’ is a group containing at least one representative of each of them, they don’t really represent Religion as a whole, and as such do not have the right to file the suit.
It would be amusing if the priest who created GG in the first place is one of the litigants here.
Sadly, no, not in many jurisdictions. Check out what this guy did:
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2014/07/08/public-defender-quits-after-judge-in-courtroom-fight-returns-to-bench/
And there are places that are much worse. In states like Texas, the judges answer to no one but the voters. Given how bat-shit insane the voters are in most of Texas and other parts of the south, judges can do all sorts of insane, unconstitutional things and get elected again and again, because the people of that county are all in favor of those unconstitutional activities.
Take the recent Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage. There have been multiple judges who have refused to comply with that ruling. Some made arguments to the effect that it was a federal ruling, which doesn’t apply to the states. There’s an amendment to the federal constitution that has a little something to say on the subject, I believe, but those judges don’t give a damn.
Some of the nonsense has come from people very high up the judicial ladder, such as:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/top-ala-orders-judges-refuse-gay-marriage-licenses-article-1.2487546
Yeah, I think I know what you’re talking about. I’ve seen a bit of artwork of what angels are supposed to look like, according to some early Christian sects. Freaky geometric things with tentacles and wings and all sorts of stuff that would make H.P. Lovecraft lose his lunch.
There’s also some reason to think that early renditions might have been something along the lines of how Muhammad was drawn (despite bitch-fits by modern Muslims, against drawing him), which was with a holy fire surrounding his head, not a halo or plate or whatever. There are sometimes major changes in the trends in religious iconography, no matter how much religious sorts might want to deny that religion evolves over time.
I think that’s going to be part of the punchline, somewhere down the line. There has been a good deal of speculation, amongst those of us here in the peanut gallery, about someone getting involved who is behaving like patent trolls do.
Far more than that … by at least an order of magnitude, probably. Hell, there are thousands of denominations of Christianity.
I’ve heard plenty of sources quoting a number in the tens of thousands, but at a certain point, you have to contemplate exactly what makes a given group a separate, distinct denomination. Does each individual Pentecostal cult count as its own denomination, or do they all fall under the heading of Pentecostalism? It gets very messy, when you try to group and analyze something so complex.
1. Not Religion. Looks like a priest, probably Catholic, channeling a higher power.
2. Yup. Breaking new ground indeed.
3. Oh, definitely. Not enough eyes and animalistic parts.
4. Great point, but it’s probably the dress that’s the focus.
5. Excellent point. Add “The Rabbi” and a Shao Lin monk to the witness list.
Hopefully my long comment will clear moderation soon. I put in two links, which I’m sure got it caught up in that.
Good thing you said that. Posting links gets you caught in the spam filter, and I would probably not have checked.
Heh heh heh. Thanks man. I figured that was probably what did it.
I still have the draft in Word, as I always do when composing long comments. If it didn’t get kicked through in 24 hours or so, I would have tried again without the links. Better with the links, of course, since they lead to things that I was using to make my points, so thanks for the kick through the moderation.
A priest, a Rabbi and a Monk? Is this some kind of joke?
Damn, you’re good!
Well, it is a humorous web-comic.
You know, if say…Dickbutt was the judge, the case would be thrown out.
Well, at least the lawyer was properly attired.
You realize he wore the brown pants.
Judge Claude Frollo presiding.