Comic #3969: the-criterion-of-embarrassment

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Panel 1: "By the 'criterion of embarrassment,' we can tell if a Bible passage is likely to be true by examining whether the people who wrote it down would have found it embarrassing."

Panel 2: "The more embarrassing a moment is, the truer it must be."

Panel 3: "Consider Mark 3:21, where Jesus' family thinks he's a little crazy. I mean… if that weren't true, would you leave it in?"

Panel 4: "In the Edda, Loki has a guy burned to death, then later at a party, he cheers up that guy's daughter by tying his balls to a goat."

Panel 5: "That's the truest story I've ever heard."

Source: SMBC Comics