I hope the US Supreme Court in the Monster Shop universe makes favorable rulings regarding the rights of the monsterised!

Cue a random passerby who monsterized himself into a cartoon red devil scaring the guy away.

I hate people like those

I'm looking forwards to seeing part 2! :D

...I feel personally offended here. I get that some Christians can be rather...overblown, but they're often on the side I label "too much". But when it looks like Christians might be being generalized like that... I'm sorry, but I can't help but massively CRINGE at the stereotyping.

...It's people like that who make it hard to be openly Christian in places like this. Besides, that sort of preaching probably wouldn't be that effective - just setting himself as a stumbling block, after all.

So to this...ah, confused Christian, I say this:
Would the Big Guy have let the Monsterizer exist like this? Hmm? And what part of the Bible can you use to back up the idea that transformation is sinful? I mean, it doesn't exactly have anything on several more modern innovations, including ones that are more...frisky (and gonna stop here before any deep diving happens in reality).
Animals are on a different level, yes, but that's also MENTALLY - and the Monsterizer doesn't knock them down there.

(Also, from the comments here I can tell I'm in the minority regarding my discomfort. And I'll live. Just...ergh, sorry, but Christianity is tolerance, plain and simple, and this guy is kinda flounting that.)

...And yes. I shudder at the hellfire preachers at the conventions as much as - if not more than - the next guy.

I'm an atheist, but I agree that the stereotyping is much too extreme.

I'd say "Amen to that" but that might offend you, so...crap I technically did didn't I But yeah, glad to see that we agree on this.

Hopefully this doesn't ruin the rest of the sequence, or cause any sudden shakeups, but yeah. Maybe someone he knows and/or respects from church is a client - not a closet client, but yeah. *shrug*

The hammer is too big for this nail, sir. (...does that even make sense here???)

Nothing wrong with the word "amen", it's basically just Hebrew for "true" or "so be it".

Anyway, sorry about the stereotype, but I wanted to draw a cartoon about someone being a pest in the Monster Shop and Rachel handling it in typical Monster Shop style, and a troublemaking evangelist seemed the most likely scenario. I suppose I could have also had it be, say, some upper-middle-class woman (you know, a "Karen") coming in accusing the shop of doing something illegal ("Turning into a monster? That must be for hiding your identity! Which only criminals would ever do! I'm calling the police!") ...but this was what I came up with.

Hrm... yeah, I’ll give ya that.

To each their own and all. Besides, this feels a bit more realistic than a Karen, I’ll give you that.

"Would the Big Guy have let the Monsterizer exist like this?" Let me put it this way. The Big Guy has allowed slavery, the Holocaust, and countless other examples of needless death and suffering throughout history. Therefore, why would he have a problem with a machine that harmlessly allows people to voluntarily change their species?

P.S. Rachel is incredibly cute in this story.

Leeet's... not start an argument in my comment section, 'kay?

Thanks for the compliment though!

AGREED. Was just intending to file a complaint, not spark a fire.

Also agreed.

There’s a very simple reason why you are wrong good sir. That, is free will. Whether evolution or divine intervention, free will is a definite aspect of us. To accept that means you must accept that others will disagree with you and think differently. And for all, that will mean their free will gives them the choice whether to do this or not. Let them be judged later, and accept who they are, not judge what they are

And on that note, if you reject that free will outstrips the divine plan of your god, then you have no true argument either, for if the divine plan of God is in place, this monsterizer is part of that plan, else it would not exist.

Hate the sin, not the sinner.

I will say that sin can be used in God's plan, but... well, this is a fictional world, so things aren't quite as nebulous as they are in reality sometimes.

I had something like this happen to me at college. A guy hung outside my dorm room and tried to have a casual conversation with me about my belief in God. I asked him to leave, but he knew that since he wasn't in my room, I couldn't make him. Thankfully he did leave eventually, but it really creeped me out.

...that was a bit too far if you ask me...
Did you report him to the RA?

No idea who he was, but he was my age so I assume he was a student. Never saw him again.

Then again, my dorm mates were partying at 3AM during exams week (long, horrible story), and the RA staff didn't do anything about that. I ended up sleeping in the newspaper staff office to get some peace and quiet.

Heh... youngsters think college life is sucky these days. Decades ago it wasn't any better.

Owwwwwch. I am SO glad I was on the well-behaved floor of my dorm...
Worst I had was one drunk dude popping in as I was getting ready for bed. He thought I was fapping and fled...
Kept my door locked since.

(Noisy neighbors were second worst)

If God wanted us to keep our human forms he wouldn’t have made us so broken and weak, yet still give us the brains to figure out how to fix that. At least that’s my argument for when transhumanist modifications become available to humanity

i can answer your question, because the human body is boring

When crazy religious Christian is trying to force some people to stay human and not be different species well... she has to take it in her own hands