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It's all about you (Jack Chick's latest)

It's very disturbing that in this day and age, people still believe that certain illnesses are caused by demonic possession or Satanic influence.
 
Safe-Keeper said:
It's very disturbing that in this day and age, people still believe that certain illnesses are caused by demonic possession or Satanic influence.
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Yes, it is disturbing:
kurious_kathy said:
Oh please people use mental illness for an excuse all the time. People are in a spiritual battle which has something to do with our mental challenges. Tell me do they have a happy pill for someone who is suicidal yet? If this person had God he would have had hope for his problems knowing eventually everything would be fine instead of freaking out and pulling the trigger.
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As for Mr. Chick, he doesn't seem to hold colleges in very high regard. I guess all that fancy book-learnin' just leads people away from Jesus.
 
Jack Chick is anti the other guy's religion.

No ecumenical nonsense about religion in general from Jack Chick. ;)
 
Chick definitely says what he is selling is NOT religion.

There's a bit which says:
"Religion is dangerous."
"Religion pretends to be holy."
"Religion can be cruel and murderous. It's a power-mad, money-hungry force that Satan loves."

So, having been warned about religion, and then told about the baby Jesus and the Virgin Mary and the supreme sacrifice... (Don't worry, Diana Ross is OK...) the girl asks: "But isn't that religion?"

Apparently it isn't.
It's how you get close to God. Which is not religion at all.

So Chick is against religion. According to whatever definition he's using, anyway. Maybe he doesn't like organised religion. Being based on an old, old book isn't organised, apparently.

Has something changed? Or has Chick always been this way?
 
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Many Christians believe that "Christianity is not a religion, but a personal relationship with God". Nothing new there.
 
Hmm ... it might be inferred from the third panel that Jack chick is as jaded on religious leaders as I am ... so maybe I should go back to liking Jack Chick?

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A lot of people have greater faith in their religion than they do in the target of their faith; which is why many of us make the distinction between "religionists" and "the faithful"; the former being religion-worshipers, and the latter being those who simply believe in one or more improvable supernatural beings.
 
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It's got the Pope, a muslim cleric, and the Dalai Lama. But who's the goateed guy supposed to be?

Steve S.
 
OK, the guy with the hat is obviously a Jew, a frequent target of Chick cartoons. The guy standing behind them is probably an atheist, just as a wild guess, seeing Chick seems to hate us.
 
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OK, the guy with the hat is obviously a Jew, a frequent target of Chick cartoons. The guy standing behind them is probably an atheist, just as a wild guess, seeing Chick seems to hate us.
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Actually, I think that the guy with the hat is a mullah, on the model of Ayatollah Khomeni (sp?). I have no idea who the two goofy guys in the background are supposed to be.
 
Not that i think all Jewish people have curly hair,but somebody like Chick would probably grab up on such a generalization.
 
shadron said:
Why ask us? Ask the man himself. www.chick.com
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I'm much too shy to do that....


If you have received Jesus Christ as your Saviour, as a Christian you should:
http://www.chick.com/information/general/salvation.asp

3. Be baptized, worship, fellowship, and serve with other Christians in a church where Christ is preached and the Bible is the final authority.
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So what I would call organised religion is acceptable. What Chick means by "religion" I have no idea. Isn't the Bible the final authority of Catholics?



And FAQs talk about false religions:
http://www.chick.com/information/general/chickinfo.asp#religions
"Why preach against false religions? Why not just preach Jesus?"

God has only one Truth. If something is not the Truth, it is false, and must be revealed as such. How tragic it would be to just stand idly by and let people go to hell, without so much as a word of warning.

Many people are trusting their church or their good works to save them. It's no fun when they get angry after hearing the Gospel, yet it sometimes happens. So why do we do it? Why not just remain silent, so everyone will like us, and let those people die without ever knowing the truth as shown in the Scriptures?
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No rant against religion as an idea. The implication is that there is only one TRUE religion.

Then "How can you say that all other religions besides Christianity are wrong? Isn't this intolerant?"

We live in a world where it has become "politically correct" to avoid absolutes. Many want all religions to be given the same honor, and all gods regarded as equally true and equally fictitious.

[...] The world contains numerous religions, each teaching a different god. These gods are not the same, and therefore cannot all be the Creator. True Christianity is based upon the Bible, the historically verifiable record of what God did in history. When the principles of the Bible are put into effect in a man's life, that life is dramatically changed.
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The answer puts the Bible above any institution, but (again) the implication is that all other religions are wrong. No rant against religion as an idea.


There is a part of the FAQs on Catholicism (which isn't Christianity!)
http://www.chick.com/information/religions/catholicism/

which has what may be a pejorative use of the word "religion":

Didn't Christianity consist of the Catholic Church for the first 1500 years?

No. While the Catholic Church was seeking to control the world through religion, true Christians were running for their lives from the Catholic holocaust that ran for centuries.
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"Religion" is somehow different to "truth" is the message I'm getting. Even if it isn't where it started, the latest tract seems to be saying it more clearly.

The "statement of faith" sure sounds like religion, though:
http://www.chick.com/information/general/statementoffaith.asp
 
steve s said:
It's got the Pope, a muslim cleric, and the Dalai Lama. But who's the goateed guy supposed to be?

Steve S.
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Looks like Don West to me:

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I think that's supposed to be (in order): Catholic, Muslim, wrong-guy-Protestant, Dalai Lama. Jews don't proselytize enough to worry about someone "falling into" it.

Jack Chick actually loves Jews, but in a creepy way Jews hate.
 
Abdul Alhazred said:
Jews don't proselytize enough to worry about someone "falling into" it.
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Ohhhh that's where you're wrong. They're clandestinely culling sympathy for their race by developing the greatest on-the-go breakfast food the world has ever seen.

I eat a toasted bagel with just a schmeer of cream cheese, and I'm ready to personally lead a charging Sayeret Matkal unit right into a Hezbollah nest. :D
 
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