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The guy is kinda creepy.


I think he should be committed to a mental hospital until he gets better. Or maybe he can go to church and find Jesus our Lord and Savior.

Copy and paste this in your signature if you love Jesus Christ, or hell awaits.

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Fortunately for you, "kinda creepy" is not grounds for commitment.

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I find people who found jesus more than just 'kind of creepy' and they definitely should be committed to a nut house.

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Doorkeeper, please don't feed the trolls. (Check out this guy's other posts.) I shouldn't have, either.

And, to attempt to drag some non-trolly content into this troll thread...

While I'm not totally unsympathetic to your opinion of religion, to say nothing of obnoxious religious creeps (and/or trolls pretending to be), you might want to consider that Mark Hogancamp seems to be a fairly religious person. You can see that in his "drunk journal" sketches and, according to Jeff Malmberg, he used to pray to God to take his alcoholism away. You can see it in the Marwencol art, too. The second most important building in Marwencol, besides Hogancamp's Bar and Cat Fight Club, has got to be the church. And consider the visual imagery he used in both depictions of the SS torturing Hogie: a battered, bloodied, half-naked man, suspended from his outstretched arms as he suffers... while light streams in from the stained-glass windows of the church. It's pretty hard to miss the symbolism, whether Mark consciously intended it or not.

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Bluesdoctor, your continued concern is touching.

Maybe this quote from an April 7, 2011, story about Hogancamp that appeared in the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/garden/07marwencol.html) will set your mind at ease:

"I’ve gotten over the anger," he said. "Wanting to go out and kill all men just because they took from me what I loved the most. That’s why I created my own world where my people love me for who I am."


You know, they actually made a movie about this guy and how he used his art to work through the trauma of being the victim of a near-fatal beating. Maybe you should see it sometime.

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Glad to hear you see it that way. Apparently you have some ability to take in information after all. But, I must say, I think it's better to strive for what's healthy rather than what's normal. Many normal things are not healthy, and vice versa.

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I can't believe people saw this documentary and thought he was creepy. I thought his story was heart-breaking and heart-warming all at the same time. This man has gone through complete hell and can live to tell the tale.

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His dolls only kill nazi dolls. Oh, if people followed their example in real life...

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I'd rather marry this guy than any 'Jesus warrior'. This guy is awesome, I love him.

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