Comments on: Johnny Hart Is Nuts http://brendancalling.com/2006/12/25/johnny-hart-is-nuts/ "living in an alternative universe of permanent outrage and relentless negativity fostered and fueled by the blogosphere." Wed, 13 Jul 2011 01:18:48 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jack Parsons http://brendancalling.com/2006/12/25/johnny-hart-is-nuts/comment-page-1/#comment-8046 Jack Parsons Tue, 02 Jan 2007 05:07:13 +0000 http://www.brendancalling.com/2006/12/25/johnny-hart-is-nuts/#comment-8046 4: <i>Um…How, exactly, are cavemen celebrating Christmas B.C.?</i> It has been decided by the Comics Curmudgeon crowd that B.C. takes place in a post-civilized wasteland. All of the anachronisms make sense. The jokes make no sense, and likewise the lack of intoxicating chemicals. 10: That's <i>reality-based</i>, not "liberal". 4: Um…How, exactly, are cavemen celebrating Christmas B.C.?

It has been decided by the Comics Curmudgeon crowd that B.C. takes place in a post-civilized wasteland. All of the anachronisms make sense. The jokes make no sense, and likewise the lack of intoxicating chemicals.

10: That’s reality-based, not “liberal”.

]]> By: The lovely Christina http://brendancalling.com/2006/12/25/johnny-hart-is-nuts/comment-page-1/#comment-6680 The lovely Christina Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:31:50 +0000 http://www.brendancalling.com/2006/12/25/johnny-hart-is-nuts/#comment-6680 since we are on the subject...I spent an hour in a god forsaken church for my mother's benefit this holiday season. Bored out of my mind, I found myself meditating on the crucifix for most of the time. It was so upsetting! They even stole his race! Jesus was a Semitic man from the Middle East! Not a White guy! He most likely looked more like one of the men that are racially profiled as terrorists, not the white man they have on the cross in their church! since we are on the subject…I spent an hour in a god forsaken church for my mother’s benefit this holiday season. Bored out of my mind, I found myself meditating on the crucifix for most of the time. It was so upsetting! They even stole his race! Jesus was a Semitic man from the Middle East! Not a White guy! He most likely looked more like one of the men that are racially profiled as terrorists, not the white man they have on the cross in their church!

]]> By: Brendan http://brendancalling.com/2006/12/25/johnny-hart-is-nuts/comment-page-1/#comment-6652 Brendan Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:15:23 +0000 http://www.brendancalling.com/2006/12/25/johnny-hart-is-nuts/#comment-6652 Actually, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter#Etymology_and_the_origins_of_Easter_traditions" rel="nofollow">easter may also have been adapted from a Pagan holiday as well</a>. I remember having to take religion classes when I was in private school, and that's what the priest claimed as well. Christians: is there anything they WON'T steal? Actually, easter may also have been adapted from a Pagan holiday as well.

I remember having to take religion classes when I was in private school, and that’s what the priest claimed as well.

Christians: is there anything they WON’T steal?

]]> By: The lovely Christina http://brendancalling.com/2006/12/25/johnny-hart-is-nuts/comment-page-1/#comment-6649 The lovely Christina Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:00:21 +0000 http://www.brendancalling.com/2006/12/25/johnny-hart-is-nuts/#comment-6649 no kidding steve. Not only that, but the christians moved the time of his birth to be closer to other pagan celebrations so that they could usurp them. If you read the description of his birth closely he wasn't even born in December! Don't get all uppity with me telling me that I stole YOUR holiday! no kidding steve. Not only that, but the christians moved the time of his birth to be closer to other pagan celebrations so that they could usurp them. If you read the description of his birth closely he wasn’t even born in December!

Don’t get all uppity with me telling me that I stole YOUR holiday!

]]> By: Steve http://brendancalling.com/2006/12/25/johnny-hart-is-nuts/comment-page-1/#comment-6604 Steve Thu, 28 Dec 2006 02:13:19 +0000 http://www.brendancalling.com/2006/12/25/johnny-hart-is-nuts/#comment-6604 It is not the pagan capitalists that have usurped Christmas, but the Christians that have usurped the pagan festivals of Yule and Mithras. The birth of Jesus was originally an insignificant event to the Christians. The resurrection is the defining event of Christianity, not His birth. I think the christians should just give Dec 25th back to the people as a purely secular celebration and go back to concentrating on Easter as the central holiday of their faith. It is not the pagan capitalists that have usurped Christmas, but the Christians that have usurped the pagan festivals of Yule and Mithras. The birth of Jesus was originally an insignificant event to the Christians. The resurrection is the defining event of Christianity, not His birth. I think the christians should just give Dec 25th back to the people as a purely secular celebration and go back to concentrating on Easter as the central holiday of their faith.

]]> By: TheYellowElephantBrigade http://brendancalling.com/2006/12/25/johnny-hart-is-nuts/comment-page-1/#comment-6573 TheYellowElephantBrigade Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:38:31 +0000 http://www.brendancalling.com/2006/12/25/johnny-hart-is-nuts/#comment-6573 Johnny Hart is nuts, and has been for ages. Mallard Fillmore really takes the sanctimony cake, which is really saying something since he probably will be drawing from inside a drunk tank after his next inevitable drunken brush with the law. Fillmore is the reason I started doing my own comic. <a href="http://www.drunkduck.com/Taking_Stock" rel="nofollow">Taking Stock</a> Enjoy, and hopefully it helps deal with having to read BC (Beyond Christian?) and MF (Wow, Mallard Fillmore has the same acronym as MotherF*cker!) Johnny Hart is nuts, and has been for ages. Mallard Fillmore really takes the sanctimony cake, which is really saying something since he probably will be drawing from inside a drunk tank after his next inevitable drunken brush with the law.

Fillmore is the reason I started doing my own comic. Taking Stock

Enjoy, and hopefully it helps deal with having to read BC (Beyond Christian?) and MF (Wow, Mallard Fillmore has the same acronym as MotherF*cker!)

]]> By: Brendan http://brendancalling.com/2006/12/25/johnny-hart-is-nuts/comment-page-1/#comment-6571 Brendan Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:26:26 +0000 http://www.brendancalling.com/2006/12/25/johnny-hart-is-nuts/#comment-6571 King Folderol! A pleasure to have you here: I've enjoyed your comments at comics curmudgeon. also, I believe you know my friend mike from Philadelphia Drinking Liberally (i think that's his name). Anyway, you ask "what season are these pagans celbrating, exactly?" I would guess Yule or the Solstice? King Folderol! A pleasure to have you here: I’ve enjoyed your comments at comics curmudgeon. also, I believe you know my friend mike from Philadelphia Drinking Liberally (i think that’s his name).

Anyway, you ask “what season are these pagans celbrating, exactly?”

I would guess Yule or the Solstice?

]]> By: joe in oklahoma http://brendancalling.com/2006/12/25/johnny-hart-is-nuts/comment-page-1/#comment-6569 joe in oklahoma Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:10:37 +0000 http://www.brendancalling.com/2006/12/25/johnny-hart-is-nuts/#comment-6569 i liked "pickles" i liked “pickles”

]]> By: Cris http://brendancalling.com/2006/12/25/johnny-hart-is-nuts/comment-page-1/#comment-6566 Cris Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:43:33 +0000 http://www.brendancalling.com/2006/12/25/johnny-hart-is-nuts/#comment-6566 The thing is, Curtis Interruptis and elf, it doesn't matter if those guys do spend their time volunteering in soup kitchens and praying at midnight mass instead of buying presents. That still wouldn't make their holier-than-thou attitude palatable. The real annoyance is that these guys cling to the victim role, thinking they're a persecuted minority, rather than adherents to a majority religion that stopped being persecuted (in the Western world) and started doing the persecuting 1700 years ago. And of course, they're entitled to feel that way, but I wish they wouldn't try to convince the rest of us that tolerance is a form of persecution. The thing is, Curtis Interruptis and elf, it doesn’t matter if those guys do spend their time volunteering in soup kitchens and praying at midnight mass instead of buying presents. That still wouldn’t make their holier-than-thou attitude palatable.

The real annoyance is that these guys cling to the victim role, thinking they’re a persecuted minority, rather than adherents to a majority religion that stopped being persecuted (in the Western world) and started doing the persecuting 1700 years ago.

And of course, they’re entitled to feel that way, but I wish they wouldn’t try to convince the rest of us that tolerance is a form of persecution.

]]> By: Jay http://brendancalling.com/2006/12/25/johnny-hart-is-nuts/comment-page-1/#comment-6565 Jay Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:31:33 +0000 http://www.brendancalling.com/2006/12/25/johnny-hart-is-nuts/#comment-6565 "They are like passive aggressive Taliban" This summarizes the problem quite nicely. If they actually came out and said, "I believe this and if you don't, you're wrong," I could respect that. But instead they go to great lengths to show how inexplicably persecuted they are for some beliefs that, to an outside observer, are pretty poorly defined and delineated. “They are like passive aggressive Taliban”

This summarizes the problem quite nicely. If they actually came out and said, “I believe this and if you don’t, you’re wrong,” I could respect that. But instead they go to great lengths to show how inexplicably persecuted they are for some beliefs that, to an outside observer, are pretty poorly defined and delineated.

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