RIH, BC

[elfs]

Johnny Hart died Easter Sunday. Hart was the creator of the B.C. comic strip but despite his attachment to cavemen and dinosaurs Hart was a Christian fundamentalist and young Earth creationist who often lampooned what he did not understand. He once said that his mother did not die as a Christian and so went to Hell, but he expected that when we went to Heaven his God would erase that knowledge from him so he wouldn't feel bad knowing about her eternal damnation.

I'm pleased anyone so twisted by that kind of belief system has been removed from our presence. Johnny Hart was a minor tumor on the sensibilities of America.

There are some graves I would dance upon.

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[tagryn]

So if, for example, Richard Dawkins collapsed and died from a stroke, and a Christian fundamentalist wrote that "I'm pleased anyone so twisted by his kind of belief system has been removed from our presence. Dawkins was a minor tumor on the sensibilities of America," your reaction to that would be...?

Its just two sides of the same coin.

[mikstera.livejournal.com]

My reaction would be one of puzzlement... I'd wonder what the fundamentalist saw as being the justification for his/her comments.

What the fundamentalist said next would, I hope, enlighten me as to the nature of their objections.

I didn't dislike "BC"'s creator so much that I'd dance upon their grave, but I won't miss the strip... it was no "Calvin & Hobbes", or "Bloom County"... but it wasn't quite as unpleasant as "Family Circle."