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Merged Chick Tracts

Having just looked at some of his cartoon's my bet is mental illness. The man is sick, and I suppose crazy once again gets down to definition. I do know that just the cartoon about Halloween alone was enough to creep me out. I can only imagine a child reading it.

On Wikipedia there is a sketch that someone did of him, I don't recall the date. I kept trying to remember why it seemed familiar, then I realized why. It reminded me a lot of one of the police sketch's of the Zodiac killer from the 1970's.

Julia
 
Cainkane1 said:
As an aside I once knew a woman who worked for an escort service and she told me that wen the Southern baptist Convention came to town they made lots of money.
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Of course - they were following Jeebus's work with Mary Magdalene. Ministering to young ladies by the annointing with their most Holy bodily fluids.:D:D:D:jaw-dropp
 
Actually I love and respect Chick....My life was turned around when I found out my ****** situation was actually satans fault and not mine.
 
I became aware of Chick Tracts back in the mid '70s when I was in Boy Scouts. There was a kid in our troop who would always bring them on camp outs. Even at that age I was smart enough to see how ridiculous the reasoning in them was, as well as how racist they were. The Christians are always blond caucasians while the evil people are usually black hippies or very ethnic looking whites (i.e. Jews.)

Steve S
 
steve s said:
I became aware of Chick Tracts back in the mid '70s when I was in Boy Scouts. There was a kid in our troop who would always bring them on camp outs. Even at that age I was smart enough to see how ridiculous the reasoning in them was, as well as how racist they were. The Christians are always blond caucasians while the evil people are usually black hippies or very ethnic looking whites (i.e. Jews.)

Steve S
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Just curious. I know you were smart enough and able to reason so you found the content ridiculous. But, did they creep you out at all? Even his artwork has strong sinister overtones.

Julia
 
wasapi said:
Just curious. I know you were smart enough and able to reason so you found the content ridiculous. But, did they creep you out at all? Even his artwork has strong sinister overtones.

Julia
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There was something creepy about that apocalyptic type of Christianity. I was raised Catholic and had never really encountered any sort of end-time theology. This kid in our scout troop used to talk about a giant computer in England that was counting down and when it got to the number 666 the world would come to an end. I wonder if he still believes that nonsense.

Steve S
 
steve s said:
The Christians are always blond caucasians while the evil people are usually black hippies or very ethnic looking whites (i.e. Jews.)
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Actually, I recall one chick tract wherein he predicts doom and devestation for any nation that gives jews the shaft.

Not defending chick, BTW. Just want to make sure people go after him for the crimes he's provably guilty of.
 
steve s said:
I became aware of Chick Tracts back in the mid '70s when I was in Boy Scouts. There was a kid in our troop who would always bring them on camp outs. Even at that age I was smart enough to see how ridiculous the reasoning in them was, as well as how racist they were. The Christians are always blond caucasians while the evil people are usually black hippies or very ethnic looking whites (i.e. Jews.)

Steve S
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The irony is that the best graphic artist by far who ever illustrated Chick's tracts is himself African-American, Fred Carter.
He's the one who did all the excellent 1970's artwork.
 
Oh, that one was HILARIOUS. Much amusement to be had. Thanks CK! :) I can't decide what my favorite part was... the insane-looking children? The concept of a $10,000,000 court case because of what one child said to another child on the playground? "Abdullah Ad-dul-ah?" Faceless, vengeful God?

It did make me think of something, though. I just went with my brother and sis-in-law to see a documentary about the hell on earth created for gay teens in Oil City, Pennsylvania by insane church leaders who basically egg on everybody in the community to torture them, and I did wonder if they read Jack Chick pamphlets...

I just moved to Portland, and there are endless hours of free amusement from New Age-y newspapers offering Pet Telepathy workshops and Quantum Activism weekends. But I do have to say, these groups seem to have fun, and they really don't care about stirring up hate for anybody.
 
Ha! almost caught me wasting time wondering why religious leaders don't make any sense.
 
Because even religious fanatic muslim knows better than touching jack chick with a 60 feet pole.

Anyway jack chick make christianity look abhorent , if I was a muslim trying to convert infidel I would first distribute his tracts, then preach my stuff to look *LESS* crazy and abhorent. I might probably gain conversion of those doubting by tumbling them away from christianity with Jack Chick's inane and insane tracts.

Nothing to lose really.

PS: I used to use Jack Chicks tract while arguying with Christian.
 
I stumbled across Jack Chick while doing research for my master thesis on the Cthulhu Mythos (there are a few Cthulhu-Chick-spoofs floating around the WWW). At first I thought it was all a joke. I was quite horrified when I learned the awful tuth.
This man has the world view of a four-year-old and some serious issues, I think. I hope he believes in faith-healing...
 
Jack Chick is like the Andy Rooney of religion, except more disrespectful. He is a grumpy old man who complains about everything that he doesn't understand. I think the world actually needs Chick tracts. I remember in my religious 20s(I am now in my 30s) when I actually used to read these little nuggets of hatred. They used to scare the crap out of me, especially the "This Was Your Life" one. I am still to this day deprogramming my subconscious mind from all of the evangelical thoughts that haunt me. To make a long story short, I am married to a Jew. This caused me to look at my beliefs in a different way which has led down a rabbit hole of new ideas for the better.
 
Please stop posting about Chick. There are already a couple of marks in my desk were I dug my nails in...
 
Ladewig said:
If I can paraphrase what the kids are saying on the interwebs.

Mr. Chick, you should treat your religion like your penis. Not only is it very inappropriate to wave it around in public, it is also very inappropriate to draw pictures of it and encourage your friends to place those pictures under other people's windshield wipers.
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Is it OK to color the penis and add a little bit to it? That's what I do. Always ends up looking like Clark Gable. I just toss it out anyway. As hard as I can.
 
TragicMonkey said:
Unless he thinks that way because of his age. He's fairly old, isn't he?
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Yeah, but IIRC, he has been spewing this crap since the fifties.

Cainkane1 said:
Actually these tracts mmay be in Dutch already. He peddles this crap in several coutries.
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No, I checked after posting (I'm glad in a way).
I even checked chick.nl, but I wouldn't do that if you're at work.


It's a porn site.
Or used to be. Can't check, am at work.
 
It seems to me that Jack Chick wishes there was a fatwa against him, because it would line up nicely with the rest of the bizarre persecution fantasies that pervade his work. I wonder how screwed up somebody's head has to be for him to portray himself so consistently as a victim of nonexistent persecution.

Dave
 
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