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So ten years ago Johnny Hart (who died like 4 years ago) ran this strip (click to enlarge):
And there's been controversy since. Okay, I get it. Hart was a Christian and he expressed his faith in his comic strip - lots of people calling him a fundamentalist...dunno what his particular Christian religious persuasion was - except that his funeral was in a Presbyterian church.
So, anyway, it's just clear that lots of people missed the point****. In fact, Hart himself claimed to be shocked that people thought he was an advocate for replacement theology based on the strip... He could be clever - a 2006 strip that I think has a well played double entendre:
(And, for the record, I'm no more or less offended by that than I am by people who use Fred Phelps as the posterboy for Christianity - every religion has it's crazy fundamentalists...well, the big ones I know about, anyway...) Nice double joke on "moon shaped" and bug - Luna-Tic[k] and, of course, the "Crescent Moon" symbol of Islam - and if it's BITING (or attacking) then "lunatic".
And why waste a whole blogpost on that? 'Cause I can.
****http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=566453 *****
***** My favorite line in the thread - and it has NOTHING to do with the strip - it's a tangent of a tangent of a tangent - is "Paul was the Walrus - and Jesus was a Carpenter" - reference to the Beatles' "I Am A Walrus" and, of course to Jesus' earthly father Joseph - and to Alice in Wonderland - I love the internet)
And there's been controversy since. Okay, I get it. Hart was a Christian and he expressed his faith in his comic strip - lots of people calling him a fundamentalist...dunno what his particular Christian religious persuasion was - except that his funeral was in a Presbyterian church.
So, anyway, it's just clear that lots of people missed the point****. In fact, Hart himself claimed to be shocked that people thought he was an advocate for replacement theology based on the strip... He could be clever - a 2006 strip that I think has a well played double entendre:
(And, for the record, I'm no more or less offended by that than I am by people who use Fred Phelps as the posterboy for Christianity - every religion has it's crazy fundamentalists...well, the big ones I know about, anyway...) Nice double joke on "moon shaped" and bug - Luna-Tic[k] and, of course, the "Crescent Moon" symbol of Islam - and if it's BITING (or attacking) then "lunatic".
And why waste a whole blogpost on that? 'Cause I can.
****http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=566453 *****
***** My favorite line in the thread - and it has NOTHING to do with the strip - it's a tangent of a tangent of a tangent - is "Paul was the Walrus - and Jesus was a Carpenter" - reference to the Beatles' "I Am A Walrus" and, of course to Jesus' earthly father Joseph - and to Alice in Wonderland - I love the internet)
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