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* Ralph E Hayes's inserting pages of unrelated [[Fourth Wall]] breaking political and theological ranting into ''[[Tales of the Questor]]'', the only one of his comics which ''hadn't'' (until then) demonstrated any [[Anvilicious]] politics or real-world religion. It was eventually moved to its own spot when Hayes got his own website combining all of his series, thankfully, but... yikes. No other webcomic has ever featured such a blatant and out-of-place [[Author Filibuster]].
* In ''[[Goblin Hollow]]'', Ben says that Beltane's Wiccan faith of being invalid because "that grab-bag of gods you 'worship' are some of the bloodiest in history" and they practiced human sacrifice. Because lording religious superiority over others is totally okay, regardless of whether yours has an equally bloody history which includes attempts to annihilate the religion you're claiming moral superiority over and its practitioners. Christianity ''does'' have an explanation for why the Christian God no longer requires (new) sacrifices of blood -- it's related to the Eucharist and the event it symbolizes -- but between this part not always being clearly explained (if it's even explicable) and Christians getting bloodthirsty in His name on their own, that isn't gonna be much comfort to any Wiccans reading.
** We also have the storyline where Penny [https://web.archive.org/web/20120508140713/http://www.rhjunior.com/GH/00348.html gives an epic] [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] to a slicked-back Jerry Falwell-type preacher who'd all but called her out as an out-of-control delinquent. What should've been a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for Penny becomes a [[Dethroning Moment of Suck]] for Lily: she demands that Penny apologize on the spot for "making a scene" in church (to the church's regular reverend, not the asshat.) When Penny says (in so many words) "F* ck that", [https://web.archive.org/web/20120522002218/http://www.rhjunior.com/GH/00349.html she gets a slap] ("for swearing") and a grounding (for making a scene). Apparently, RH Junior saw making a scene in church as horrific. He perhaps did not expect the readership to respond to Lily's actions with "What the hell?"
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120522002539/http://www.rhjunior.com/GH/00352.html The subsequent explanation] for Penny's anger was that her best friend killed herself while dealing with depression, and a radio preacher basically said it was her own damn fault and that she was bound for hell for it. <s> Hayes</s> [http://www.rhjunior.com/GH/00354.html Ben had a ham-fisted rebuttal]: instead of saying "Some people believe that. Neither I nor my church do," he said "You were told a wicked lie."
** The woman is a sobbing, hysterical mess who believes her friend is undergoing nightmarish torture for the rest of eternity. An authority figure deciding *not* to suggest that that might just be the case is the farthest thing from a wall banger.
*** Hey, if it's a wicked lie and it's hurt a bereaved teen that badly, then why mince words? That said, Hayes has a general aversion to using wishy-washy language like "believe". Judging from his comics and his statements elsewhere, [[The Fundamentalist|every topic from Climate Change to religion to gun rights has a simple obvious Truth, and anyone who doesn't agree with it is either stupid (usually willfully so) or evil]].
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