Talk:Garth Ennis

message: There is the bold statement 'Ennis is a devout atheist who has a marked distaste for christianity'  Neither the reference provided or the reference it links to seems to provide any evidence of this at all, beyond the author's opinion.  A quick google search shows a bunch of links claiming he's atheist, mostly criticizing his work "preacher", but I can't find anything from HIM that says he's atheist, much less anything where he says he dislikes christianity.  
I'm not saying that it's wrong. I'm just saying the reference doesn't support the statement, and that I can't find any references that ether validates or refutes the statement.
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http://www.sequentialtart.com/archive/dec03/tth_1203.shtml
http://www.adherents.com/people/pe/Garth_Ennis.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.231.223.14 (talk) 05:13, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: On the Celebrity Atheist list, he's quoted (from Wizard: The Guide to Comics #62, October 1996, p.56) as saying "I'm an atheist, really. But everyone seems to think I'm some terrible lapsed Catholic who suffered the worst of a Catholic upbringing and had the crap kicked out of him by nuns and monks. In actual fact, I'm not Catholic, and I never had any kind of direct religious upbringing at all, although I was exposed to the inevitable religious influence that growing up in Ireland will give you. And slightly more directly, my school had what was known as the Scripture Union or Christian Union, which young people were very strongly encouraged to join. They weren't too overt about it, but the kind of insidious propaganda that they employed used to, quite frankly, annoy the piss out of me. But I've always been interested in the history of Christianity and its effect on the world, and more generally speaking, in the idea of faith and of someone giving control over his destiny to what he sees as a higher power. These things have always just fascinated me and they're bound to show up in my work again and again. Negatively." --Nicknack009 (talk) 13:29, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Personal Life:  Christianity

message: Sure, he's Irish, but he was born in Northern Ireland, so does'nt that make him a subject of the UK?
What does his passport say?
No. Since the Good Friday agreement and the Anglo Irish agreement before that, people living in Northern Ireland have the right to choose their nationality and passport (British or Irish or both) perhaps a unique situation in the world.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.240.141.48 (talk) 14:34, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Then Be bold and add it in people can then tweak it. For my own part I was thinking it'd be  best to redo the bibliography in chronological order. The same suggestion came up over on the Grant Morrison entry and I've made a start throwing in dates and we'd need to full range of dates here too. (Emperor 01:31, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nationality 

message: I see no reason for an entry Garth Ennis work for 2000 A.D./Judge Dredd and it also makes a chronological sorting of publications impossible. (Emperor 21:04, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The other entry has now been put up for deletion so anyone looking to thrown in their opinions should do so over there. (Emperor 02:36, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge?

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replies: text: Done. For starters it is missing a photo but there is also a need for quite a few more references. I'll return to this and flag the points but in the meantime you can't go wrong sourcing any claims you find. (Emperor (talk) 01:45, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
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message: I'm actually something of a fan of Garth's work and have read almost all of it. But he's come under fire for being misogynistic. I can probably troll out sources from CBR (Comic book resources) and reviews, but really it's as self evident as his "interest in male friendships." I'm not trying to just smear the guy, but it's a theme in his work.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.180.22.148 (talk) 05:36, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes there is room for analysis - "X has said this about this" just try and keep thingss balanced and fair. Without sources it is original research (and would be violating WP:BLP too). (Emperor (talk) 19:12, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

text: Probably worth giving WP:BLP and WP:UNDUE a certain amount of thought when addressing this as well. Artw (talk) 20:02, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Keeping BLP in mind should be top priority for any real-living-person article. Lots42 (talk) 21:39, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misogyny 

message: I've removed the cleanup tag, which seemed old and out of date. As far as I can tell none of the old issues mentioned there apply to the article, with particularly good work being done to add references and move citations inline. I hope everyone is okay with that assessment.  Artw (talk) 17:02, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
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message: Someone just added the Critics of Religions category. While Ennis is critical of religion, does that in fact make him a Critic of Religion in the sense in which that category is applied? He is a comic book writer, he doesn't write books or essays attempting to discredit or deconstruct religion. Even his comics that have a blasphemous or antireligious tone aren't truly critiques of religion but are just Ennis' own feelings coming out through his work. The overall goal of these comics seem to be to entertain the reader not to critique religion. Surprisingly little religious content is actually in comics like Preacher or Chronicles of Wormwood beyond just a general irreverence but no real argument is made or even attempted.Lynchenberg (talk) 18:01, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
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message: I suppose it's possible Ennis didn't win anything between 2001 and 2021, but I doubt it. There are probably just some missing. Richard75 (talk) 22:52, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awards 

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message: Would there be any objection to modifying this so the Rebellion 2000 AD material is under the Fleetway stuff and not buried in the "other publishers" section? 2600:1700:96F1:550:DDE3:B7AD:2931:B429 (talk) 20:38, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography discussion: Fleetway and Rebellion