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[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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[mikstera.livejournal.com]

"I am continually astonished by the hatred people have for Christians in this country. I'm still trying to understand it."

Some people have hatred for Christians. Not being one of them, I can't speak to their motivations.

I have a profound distaste and dislike for some of the things that some Christians do, and that I can speak to:

I have a profound distaste for the actions of people who see a class of fellow humans as being "sick" and "disgusting" and "mentally ill" simply because they feel romantic / sexual attraction towards members of the same gender.

I have a profound distaste for the actions of people who wish to substitute mythology for science.

I have a profound distaste for the actions of people who are simultaneously against abortion, birth control by means other than abstinence, and detailed, factual sex education. By their actions, they increase misery and suffering in the world.

I have a profound distaste for the actions of people who, not being content with being in the vast numerical majority, seek to use the force of law to force their beliefs upon all others.

In short, I have an intense dislike for what some Christians are doing in the name of their religion, because what they do hurts people, and makes the world worse rather than better.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Then you should have no objection to my genuine loathing for Johnny Hart. The man was a Christian Reconstructionist: he believed that America should be a theocracy, that the only justification for government was to be the authority of the Bible, and that gays, lesbians, and pagans who would not repent of their rebellion against God should be jailed and/or executed.

[(Anonymous)]

I reject what people like Johnny Hart stand for in the strongest terms possible... but, speaking only for myself, I don't think I'd do the world or myself any good by loathing the man himself, less so now that he's dead.

For me, it's enough to drag his ideas into the light of day, and show them to be the garbage they are, lest anyone be fooled into thinking they are of value. If his ideas have no place to take root, then he is rendered irrelevant.