Editing Johnny Hart (section)

===Controversial strips===
Two strips in particular were controversial. The ''B.C.'' strip for April 15, 2001, which was [[Easter Sunday]], portrayed a Jewish [[Menorah (Temple)|menorah]] with seven candles progressively burning out as the strip captions ran the words of [[Jesus Christ]]. At the end, the outer arms of the candelabrum broke away, leaving a [[Christian cross]], with the final panel portraying the opened and [[Death and resurrection of Jesus|empty tomb of Christ]].<ref name="WashingtonPost2003">{{cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/456685601.html?FMT=ABS&date=Nov+21%2C+2003 |title=Cartoon Raises a Stink: Some See Slur Against Islam in a 'B.C.' Outhouse Strip |first=Gene |last=Weingarten |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=November 21, 2003|access-date=2007-04-09|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910013835/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/doc/409528755.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=&type=current&date=Nov%2021,%202003&author=&pub=&edition=&startpage=&desc= |archivedate=September 10, 2015}}</ref> Critics including the [[Anti-Defamation League]] and the [[American Jewish Committee]] argued that Hart's strip portrayed [[replacement theology]], that is, the conception of Christianity as supplanting [[Judaism]]. Hart offered an apology "if I have offended any readers," but still thought the strip could increase "religious awareness" and claimed that he had meant the strip to be a tribute to both religions.<ref name="CC"/><ref name="USAToday">{{cite news|title='B.C.' cartoonist Johnny Hart dies at 76|last=USA Today|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-04-08-johnny-hart-obit_N.htm | date=April 9, 2007 | access-date=May 7, 2010}}</ref><ref name="CNN">{{cite news|title='B.C.' cartoonist Johnny Hart dies |website=CNN.com |url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/08/obit.hart.ap/index.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070412184336/http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/08/obit.hart.ap/index.html |archivedate=April 12, 2007 }}</ref>

Another ''B.C.'' strip, which ran November 10, 2003, showed an outhouse with a traditional [[crescent]], which a character entered with a vertical graphic "SLAM", only to ask, "Is it just me, or does it stink in here?" Critics including the [[Council on American-Islamic Relations]] claimed that the combination of the vertical bar and the "SLAM", as well as the crescent moons both in the sky and on the outhouse, made the strip a slur on [[Islam]]. Hart denied that it was anything but an outhouse joke.<ref name="WashingtonPost2003"/>