Ted Rall has done it again. Of course there isw some mundane current events aspect to this about republicrats or something... The main thing is a critique of the idea of heaven. Heaven is hate! I hadn't even thought of it before.
Also, it occured to me to notice the 72 virgins. Why 72? Maybe I could look it up. However, I know that there are 72 hours in 3 days.
In the bible there is constant reference to 40. 40 days and 40 nights. Noah, Jesus, the Exodus of 40 years. The reason for that number is 40 week: human gestation period. 40 = rebirth. When they use it, the literal idea of 40 days is absurd but that is not what is intended. 40 is a rebirth. Something new must grow. Something old must die and be reborn or replaced.
So 72 virgins? 72 sweet and innocent hours? Jesus was resurrected after 3 days. So I'm thinking the 72 hours actually has the meaning of rebirth or resurrection or some such symbolism. The only other thing I could think of would be 6*12=72... Muhammed had 12 wives or 12 virgins [they were pure hearted] or something like that? And six times better than that? Arab cultures invented numbers and... was it them or babylon... anyways around there the number six is like 10 because it was a base 6 counting system. Thus 60 seconds, 60 minutes, 24 hours, 360 days, 360 degrees... They 'invented' time.
Anyways, that's not much to do with the comic but. Numbers are symbols. Literalness is so literally not reading it properly. Stupid fundies.
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