...not vice versa.

From wiki (see portion in bold):

An History of the Corruptions of Christianity, published by Joseph Johnson in 1782, was the fourth part of eighteenth-century Dissenting minister Joseph Priestley's Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion (1772-74).[1]

Priestley's major argument in the Institutes is that the only revealed religious truths that can be accepted are those that also conform to the truth of the natural world. Because his views of religion were deeply tied to his understanding of nature, the text's theism rests on the argument from design. Many of Priestley's arguments descended from eighteenth-century deism and comparative religion.[2] The Institutes shocked and appalled many readers, primarily because it challenged basic Christian orthodoxies, such as the divinity of Christ and the miracle of the Virgin Birth. Priestley wanted to return Christianity to its "primitive" or "pure" form by eliminating the "corruptions" which had accumulated over the centuries. The fourth part of the Institutes, An History of the Corruptions of Christianity, became so long that he was forced to issue it separately. Priestley believed that the Corruptions was "the most valuable" work he ever published.[3]

Schofield, Priestley's major modern biographer, describes the work as "derivative, disorganized, wordy, and repetitive, detailed, exhaustive, and devastatingly argued."[4] The text addresses issues from the divinity of Christ to the proper form for the Lord's Supper. Thomas Jefferson would later write of the profound effect that Corruptions had on him: "I have read his Corruptions of Christianity, and Early Opinions of Jesus, over and over again; and I rest on them . . . as the basis of my own faith. These writings have never been answered."[5] Although a few readers such as Jefferson approved of the work, it was generally harshly reviewed because of its extreme theological positions, particularly its rejection of the Trinity.[6]

"That meant he already knew what he wanted to prove and gathered evidence to support that belief."

Isn't this what scientists do all the time?  They make general observations and come up with theories and then gather evidence to see if the facts support or disprove their theory, right?

Only, when the the post-modernist, Humanist, Darwin-worshipping modern-day "scientists" do it, they don't bother with evidence against their preconceived beliefs, and anyone pointing out that evidence is subject to ridicule.

"Church adds that he never receives hate mail from Jews, Muslims, etc.; only from Fundamentalist Christians"

Because he's a SCIENTIST--he can tell when someone writes, "Your lifestyle is an abomination before God," that it's the New Testament to blame, not the Old Testament, the Torah, or the Koran.  Strange that all of these writings condemn the behavior, yet Joke Church (how ironic, that name) only sees Fundamentalist Christians as the source of his criticism.  It must be blissful to be so ignorant.

I invite Mr. Church to visit Iran to pick up a "date" there.  See how they treat him.

And then tell me how much PRIMARY research Al Gore has conducted on global warming.  "Some people," indeed!

I stopped reading his strips long ago due to his ideology.

Does anyone else remember the classic: "Why is poop brown?"

What a dipstick.

So Priestley's methods gave the world the eraser, but these same methods are put down by a cartoonist who created some crappy drawings that prove he doesn't believe in erasers.