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Learning about religion from Archie Comics

Keruvalia
20-08-2004, 05:53
So, anyway, when I was a kid, I - like many others of my age - enjoyed the Archie Comics. Oh, sure, they'd been around since my dad was a kid, but there's just something enjoyable about them as a young child.

Anyway, I remember I once read an Archie comic where they were digging in one of the yards and came across some old stone tablets with various letters on them. Archie, Veronica, Betty, and Gerald hummed and hawed over the tablets and eventually formed the words "KING OPRAZENO" (or something like that). They all came up with these wild stories about this ancient King and his burial site and his exploits in pre-historic Rydel. Each story was more fanciful than the next.

After many pages of these amazing and wild stories, they walked away, continuing their discussions when Jughead walked up to the tablets behind them and looked at the words. After a few minutes of thinking, Jughead rearranged the letters to form "NO PARKING ZONE" and walked away smiling.

Amazing how a trite joke can form your whole opinion on religion.
Loving Balance
20-08-2004, 05:56
*cracks up* That's beautiful...I guess it really is all about how you look at it huh?
Unfree People
20-08-2004, 06:13
Oooh, I adored Archie comics. I never ran into that strip, though. Sounds great...
Salbania
20-08-2004, 06:43
Oooh, I adored Archie comics. I never ran into that strip, though. Sounds great...

Ditto.
Kryozerkia
20-08-2004, 07:05
I didn't learn my religion stuff from there... I learned it from the Simpsons.
Keruvalia
20-08-2004, 07:16
I didn't learn my religion stuff from there... I learned it from the Simpsons.

Equally as good :)
Proletariat Comrades
20-08-2004, 10:15
I love Archie comics... still happen to have a bunch of them...

I buy one everytime I'm going on a long plane ride; they do help pass the time...