Editing Johnny Hart (section)

===Religious convictions===
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Hart was raised in a casually religious family, and he attended [[Christianity|Christian]] Sunday School regularly. Although his formal education ended with high school, he was fascinated by the [[Bible]] from a young age.<ref name="PTM">{{cite web
 |title=At the Hart of B.C. 
 |url=http://www.ptm.org/JulHartofBC.htm 
 |publisher=Plain Truth Ministries 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040619222856/http://www.ptm.org/JulHartofBC.htm 
 |archivedate=2004-06-19 
}}</ref>
In 1984 there was a distinguishable shift in Hart's spirituality, and Hart and wife Bobby began attending a congregation of the [[Presbyterian Church (USA)|Presbyterian Church]] in [[Nineveh, New York]]. Hart attributed his religious awakening to a father-son team of contractors who installed a satellite dish at his home.<ref name="PTM"/> 
Hart's increasingly deep religious faith, and the staunch theological and political [[conservatism]] that accompanied it, came to be the source of considerable controversy in the later years of his life. In a 1999 interview with ''[[The Washington Post]]'', for example, he stated that "[[Jew]]s and [[Muslim]]s who don't accept Jesus will burn in Hell" and that "[[homosexuality]] is the handiwork of [[Satan]]."<ref name="LATimes-obit">{{cite news
|last=Noland
|first=Claire
|title=Johnny Hart, 76; created 'B.C.' comic strip|work = Los Angeles Times
|date=April 9, 2007
|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-hart9apr09,0,5483287.story?coll=la-home-obituaries}}</ref> In the same piece, Hart opined that "the end of the world is approaching, maybe by the year 2010."
The lion's share of controversy, however, came from Hart's increasing tendency to incorporate his religious and political themes and ideals into his comic strips, especially ''B.C.'' Some newspapers refused to print strips with overtly religious themes or, as with the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', moved them to the religious section of the newspaper.<ref name="CC">{{cite news
 |title=Easter Comic Strip Creates an Uproar 
 |url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_14_118/ai_74439261 
 |last=Christian Century 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070306110944/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_14_118/ai_74439261 
 |archivedate=2007-03-06 
}}</ref>