He actually BELIEVES that the sick are demonically possessed? What happens when you break your arm? Little invisible demons show up with hammers at the very second you fall out of the tree? (or whatever.) I mean... wow. So I don't have to worry about lung cancer any more. I'll tell my doctor that next time I go in. He'll get a kick out of it...
I do like how, in this newsletter, he goes on for several hundred barely-coherent words about his conviction that Hell is literally on the surface of the Sun and that souls are "vacuumed" there after death, then acts all hurt and victimized (by the International Feminist Conspiracy, natch) because Carla Speed McNeil called his ideas "bizarre and obsessive." Honestly, it'd be hilarious if it wasn't so sad for anyone who's ever enjoyed Cerebus.
I knew about his whacked out Feminist Conspiracy ideas. Which is why I stopped my collection of his books at Vol 13, supposedly the last major arc not heavily filled with the crazy...
The sickness caused by demons thing was new to me...
I haven't read Dave Sim's blog (or Cerebus for that matter...so sue me), but I will say that it sounds an awful lot like hardcore Christian Science.
Mary Baker Eddy held to the theory that illness is the result of sin, which is why Christian Scientists are so big on prayer as treatment, and why courts sometimes have had to remove sick children from the care of C.S. parents who refuse to authorize medical treatment.
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Date: 2007-02-27 05:01 am (UTC)What, you just noticed that?
I do like how, in this newsletter, he goes on for several hundred barely-coherent words about his conviction that Hell is literally on the surface of the Sun and that souls are "vacuumed" there after death, then acts all hurt and victimized (by the International Feminist Conspiracy, natch) because Carla Speed McNeil called his ideas "bizarre and obsessive." Honestly, it'd be hilarious if it wasn't so sad for anyone who's ever enjoyed Cerebus.
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Date: 2007-02-27 06:29 am (UTC)The sickness caused by demons thing was new to me...
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Date: 2007-02-27 01:44 pm (UTC)Mary Baker Eddy held to the theory that illness is the result of sin, which is why Christian Scientists are so big on prayer as treatment, and why courts sometimes have had to remove sick children from the care of C.S. parents who refuse to authorize medical treatment.