He said they and Jews (and presumably anyone else) are going to Hell if they don’t accept Christ as their savior.
I’m with pulykamell on this. I am sure that Hart had some silly and offensive ideas, and the Menorah strip is pretty clear, but people are reading way too much into the other strips. They’re bad jokes, that’s all.
That they’ll burn in hell if they don’t accept Jesus. Which, as was pointed out, is what you’d expect a fundamentalist to believe… But I just think it’s telling that Hart, a public figure, would come out & say it in the mass media, as it were. It shows that he wasn’t stealthy or timid about his beliefs.
And to pulykamell, I was just extrapolating from your “if it is indeed an intentional double meaning joke, I think it’s quite a clever one” comment. Not trying to put words in your mouth & I’m quite happy to agree to disagree. This is not a major cause of mine - I’m just saying how I interpret the comic strips & why.
It’s not at all necessary to have “SLAM” in there. What, if the first panel was the guy walking up to the outhouse, the second was the outhouse, and the third had the guy’s voice coming out of the outhouse, you wouldn’t know that the guy had gone into the outhouse? If there was some doubt, you could have shown the outhouse door as being open in the first panel. It isn’t necessary, and it doesn’t make sense for him to slam the door.
It’s also just so very, very unfunny that there is no way the purpose was humor. It makes no sense.
Clearly you haven’t read BC much. That’s BC, in a nutshell.
I’m not seeing a message in the turtle strip either. “Lunatic” is an obvious pun. It’s not funny, but it’s easy to see what the joke is.
Like I said, less funny jokes abound in comic strips. Have you ever read Comics I Don’t Understand? And really, you’re getting hung up about “SLAM”? Are those types of sound effects necessary in any comics? And I really think it is an example of “old man humor.” Yes, I could actually see some people finding it funny as written. People have weird senses of humor. Heck, I find it slightly amusing.
Oh, but you see, it’s obviously a subversive swipe on Islam because it mentions a crescent moon and there’s a star somewhere in the strip. There can be no other explanation.
By modifying a Calvin&Hobbes comic, and including it with a collection of inferior strips, you have committed blasphemy. Hart is hardly controversial compared to your heretical views. Your sin is beyond redemption.
Long story, and frankly I am not 100% certain that it was because of our Jewishness, there was just a lot of coincidence in the timing.
[hijack]The short version is, we enrolled my (at the time) 4 month old in a home daycare that was very highly thought of in the community, so my wife could go back to work. It is run by some very devoutly Christian women, but that didn’t bother us since they took good care of their kids and the school wasn’t a religious one.
Around Easter the woman who ran the school told us that the school would be closed for the holiday and asked if we would be taking the NAFlett to church or if she we thought she was still too young. My wife replied, well, we are Jewish, so no church for us. To which we were told “Well, we believe in Jesus in this house, so we will be in Church.” She may or may not have mumbled something about not wanting to burn, my wife and I disagree on that point.
A week later they told us that they could no longer take children under 1 year of age. No one at the school spoke to us or made eye contact with us in that time period other than to give us a concise report on the health of our daughter (they had been very friendly and chatty in the past). We had already started looking for a new daycare as it was (for a variety of reasons), but it was still a bit surprising to actually be told we had to find other daycare options.
Could they really have decided that they couldn’t take children under 1 year of age? Sure. Do I think it is likely? No. [/hijack]
Sorry for the hijack.