Ghostbusters and the Holy Ghost
Sunday afternoon, as usual I’ve eaten too much at dinner and my neurons are hard at carbureting. In TV there are the Olympic Games, Internet throws up to me the usual information overload and I’m in need of some touch of spirit to straighten myself out and to avoid to put my ass on the sofa snoring. In two words I need a comic, but a genial one 
Perhaps something which banter religion, that cloak of bogus hell covering the candid souls of who basks in old superstitions to avoid to have to deal with the true hell of reality. Something like that strip from the xkcd webcomic, which besides a certain tendency to exaggerate with the geek self-satisfaction so much trendy nowadays brings sometimes surprises of pure, caustic and irresistible English understatement.
So after having discovered that the room full of flying dragons is empty instead, a new stab in the back of the unquestionable precepts of the religious superstition comes from the Web, shot right in the face of the Catholic cult still surviving to itself although the Vatican has abandoned the mud of the world to sit at the table of the strongest and share with them the luxury and the pleasures of the secular world…
Apart of my virulent iconoclasm, that duly comes out every time it has the occasion, I would say that there’s no much to say except that the strip is ingenious, the Ghosbusters revival is very Eighties and if I had a proton pack on my back I would enter in a church too, on Sunday morning. Ah, and I straightforward refuse to repeat like a robot the usual well-worn gag on the fact that crossing the fluxes is bad
Source: xkcd - Holy Ghost.
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