nakedpastor: We Both Go Down Together

January 26, 2012 By 11 Comments



Filed Under: Death, General, Humor 11 Comments
About David Hayward

David Hayward runs the blog nakedpastor as a graffiti artist on the walls of religion where he critiques religion… specifically Christianity and the church. He also runs the online community The Lasting Supper where people can help themselves discover, explore and live in spiritual freedom.

  • Joe Mosfet

    The only difference between the two tombstones I see is at the bottom of the P – looks like another period made it in there.

  • http://annainca.blogspot.com/ Anna

    It’s fascinating to see the progression of David Hayward’s cartoons. His belief system certainly seems to be evolving. Looking at this one, it seems as though he’s questioning the existence of an afterlife, since both the dead believer and the dead atheist have ended up in the same place: the cemetery.

    • http://www.facebook.com/gmillar Gavin Millar

      Damn, I think you might be onto something there!

      • Erp

        Except this is one of the older ones. 

  • ludovico

    Umm…R.I.P. for atheists-?? Doesn’t “Rest In Peace” mean that one’s soul [god willing] will have eternal rest in heaven-?

  • ludovico

    Umm…R.I.P. for atheists-?? Doesn’t “Rest In Peace” mean that one’s soul [god willing] will have eternal rest in heaven-?

    • Anonymous

      The phrase or initialism is commonly found on the grave of Catholics,
      as it is derived from their burial service  in which the following
      prayer is said: 

       (May his soul and the souls of all the departed faithful by
      God’s
      mercy rest in peace).

      “Rest in peace” is a prayer that the
      deceased may rest peacefully, not in torment, while awaiting Judgment
      Day.  Catholics believe that the soul is parted from the body upon death, but that the soul and
      the body will be reunited on Judgement Day. 

    • TheBlackCat

      Or it could mean that’s one mind has eternal rest by not doing anything anymore.

      As for heaven being restful, being shoved with millions of people under a chair and singing forever doesn’t sound all that restful, but that’s me.

  • http://twitter.com/cafewitteveen Jeremy Witteveen

    This wins as the most awkward headline of the day. 

  • Liz Heywood

    It’s like the joke, “What do you call alternative medicine that works?: Medicine.” This is, “What’s the difference between a dead atheist and a dead believer? Nothing.” ; )

  • Taxihorn

    We don’t have the language appropriate to discuss non-existence. We don’t even have the experience of non-existence to help with the imagining of non-existence. But what I am able to say, is that if I don’t exist, I won’t be there to rest, sleep, dream, or care about the pros and cons of not existing, so I’m not worried.