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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[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.

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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.