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How is anti-Christian sentiment and anti-Islam sentiment a false equivalence? Both are prejudices against religious groups and religions and in each example the author wrote a comic series for the purpose of attacking a religious group and religion. On a side note, correct me if I'm wrong, for someone who said to dislike all religions, Garth Ennis' works only seem to attack Christianity and Christians. |
"Both are prejudices against religious groups and religions" is precisely where that similarity ends; the nature of the prejudices set them firmly apart, and ignoring that seems disingenuous. Furthermore, Garth Ennis is noted to be an atheist, and is critical of Christianity specifically based on apparent life experiences; I would think anyone promoting the idea that atheists HAVE to necessarily criticize all religions ever is probably feeding someone a line. Anyway, sprucing up the page further |
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* [[Acceptable Religious Targets]]: The series treats Christians and Christianity as such, like most works by [[Garth Ennis]].
* [[Complete Monster]]: Marie L'Angelle is utterly ''terrifying'', and in Preacher that is quite an accomplishment.
** Allfather D'Aronique is also utterly repulsive, in [[Big Eater|more]] [[Fat Bastard|ways]] [[Gonk|than]] [[We Have Reserves|one]], as is [[The Napoleon|Odin Quincannon]].
{{quote|'''Allfather D'Aronique''': ''At the end of every day, every leader of every nation makes a telephone call. They dial a number I have given them. And when I answer, they simply say-- "Thank you".''}}
** Herr Starr
* [[Designated Villain]]: God, until Alamo. The main reason Jesse goes after him is to make God apologise for
▲** More like it crosses the line six times and is still looking for the next line to cross, with no sign of stopping.
▲* [[Designated Villain]]: God, until Alamo. The main reason Jesse goes after him is to make God apologise for earth being a [[Crapsack World]] even though it's pointed out humans have complete free will and made the world the way it is. However over the course of the comic, God isn't presented as a bad person, really just a coward. In fact he only attacks Jesse for attempting to use the Word, so it's actually self-defence considering Jesse does kill and hurt with slight provocation. It isn't until Jesse's conversation with the Saint at the Alamo that we discover any real crime. {{spoiler|God started the war in Heaven and made a earth the way it was just to see who would love him.}}
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Arseface.
* [[God Mode Sue]] / [[Villain Sue]]
* [[HSQ]]: Just keeps going ''up'' and ''up'' in the War of the Sun arc. {{spoiler|The Saint goes from ''kicking a tank'' to being hit with a ''nuke''!}}
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Herr Starr. Even after being nigh-completely mentally and physically destroyed, he's still just about the baddest motherfucker in the valley. (Okay. Second baddest.)
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]:
** The Saint crossed it when he [[Shoot the Hostage|shot a hostage]].
** And {{spoiler|after Jesse's supposed death, Cassidy gets a broken Tulip hooked on pills and booze so that she'll be totally dependent on him, and has sex with her multiple times whilst she's pretty much completely out of it. And that's ''before'' we discover his past.}}
*** He commits a murder that the victim did ''not'' deserve (Sheriff who shot at him for sleeping with his wife). Honestly, what did Cass ''expect'' the guy to do? And Cass survived the shot, being a vampire and all. This is the first solid hint that ol' Cass may be more on the side of darkness than light.
* [[Motive Decay]]: Demonstrated by Herr Starr.
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