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Merged Chick Tracts

Definitely a different artist from the expertly-drawn "Bad Bob" and "Catholics = evil" strips. It's not just the cartoony style, but the clumsiness of the figures and faces that leads me to this conclusion. I don't even think this one is as well drawn as the equally cartoonish, but more skillfully rendered, "Stinky Halloween" strip.

I wonder who illustrates these things? Are they fundamentalist Christians also, and do they buy into Chick's holier-than-anyone belief system? Or are they just hired hands, content to anonymously garner a check from a dispenser of blatant lies and semi-truths?
 
You guys are ignoring the best one. I posted it today and its called Trust me. Heck the guy gets strung out on dope, goes to prison, gets raped anally and dies and is saved at the last minute. Very graphic drawings and you guys aren't looking at it?
 
Wasn't the brat with her? Her son, or her responsibility in some way? And she wasn't watching him or anything...
 
Why doesn't everyone get a second chance like this?

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0096/0096_01.asp

Heres a man who went to hell while almost but not quite dead. He recovers and then he repents. Ok so how many other people die and don't come back like this man did?

The answer is of course there is no such place a hell and people who think they went there are having a lucid dream.
 
Sometimes I think that the only logical explanation for Chick is that he is in fact the greatest and longest serving Poe ever ...
 
I like how God isn't throwing people into Hell, but just leaving the unrepentant alone and letting Satan and his evilness do the work. Lest this cast an unfavorable light on God, of course.

God wants to save you from Satan. God isn't punishing you!
 
It simply means having a hellish near-death experience was a part of Jesus' plan for this individual.[/Christian]

Everytime I have asked a Christian why Jesus can't prove himself, the response is usually: You can't choose to follow him if you know he's real! If you know Jesus is real then you know hell is real. If you know hell is real, you will follow Jesus to avoid hell. Jesus doesn't want people to follow him just to avoid hell. Therefore, faith is required. What about the case of those who experience a hellish NDE? In their minds it happened. They ''know'' hell and Jesus exists. Is faith not required for them?
 
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Beerina said:
I like how God isn't throwing people into Hell, but just leaving the unrepentant alone and letting Satan and his evilness do the work. Lest this cast an unfavorable light on God, of course.

God wants to save you from Satan. God isn't punishing you!
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Wait, God is saving humanity from a fire that he started? So is God a controlling arsonist?
 
What I always found interesting about this kind of thinking is this:

1. God creates Hell
2. God makes man inherently imperfect, so that essentially, not sinning is impossible
3. God decides sinners should be cast into Hell
4. God then of his own accord decides that he will come down in human form to suffer and be crucified to save people from hell, and then blackmails you into being eternally guilty and grateful for the suffering HE decided to put himself
5. God is then regarded as merciful and just

It's like...if someone kidnapped me, and they told me they were going to torture me for my entire life...but then, he starts slashing himself and cutting himself, and says that so long as I thank him for doing so, he WON'T torture me for my entire life. Instead, he'll give me cake. So I do thank him, he gives me cake, and I go on my merry way.

Is this kidnapper an emblem of compassion, wisdom, and justice? Or is he an absolute psychopath?

In a way, I actually have a certain amount of respect for the Westboro Baptist Church and others who don't go for the "God is loving and just" but instead lean towards the, "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" mentality. While of course, they are nasty nasty people, their interpretation of God makes a lot more sense to me when it comes to Christian fundamentalists. They DON'T promote the Jack Chick, "God is our wonderful kind and loving Father" ideal while at the same time preaching the reality of Hellfire. They stick with the, "Look, our Deity is a violent, enraged maniac, so you all better keep in line, or he'll fry your ass!"
 
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Wouldn't 15 minutes of cardiac arrest leave a man too brain damaged to speak?

I like how the preacher cites scripture to say that hell is a lake of fire, then in the next sentence mention another verse that says it's a place of darkness.

Those horned devils are unscriptural. In the Bible, demons are invisible spirits that possess people.
 
Cainkane1 said:
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0096/0096_01.asp

Heres a man who went to hell while almost but not quite dead. He recovers and then he repents. Ok so how many other people die and don't come back like this man did?

The answer is of course there is no such place a hell and people who think they went there are having a lucid dream.
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It's okay. I heard that God send him to hell even after he repented just for kicks. He's just that much of a jerk. :p
 
I love the tidy way Jack deals with societal problems in these cartoons with barely a mention. According to Jack, it seems kids commit suicide because they think hell will be a great place and it is all the fault of that evil punk rock (I had to double check the copyright date when I say that rant.)

Kids do not attempt suicide because of any real issues like family problems or being bullied. Nope...its Satan.

This Cartoon epitomizes the simplistic perspective that was common in the 80s. Drug problem: just tell them to say no. Whole lot easier than dealing with pesky problems live poverty, unemployment and social inequalities.

And Cainkane1, I am starting to suspect you need an intervention from this cartoons.
 
Schrodinger's Cat said:
It's like...if someone kidnapped me, and they told me they were going to torture me for my entire life...but then, he starts slashing himself and cutting himself, and says that so long as I thank him for doing so, he WON'T torture me for my entire life. Instead, he'll give me cake. So I do thank him, he gives me cake, and I go on my merry way.
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That's a really good analogy and one I will use from now on when explaining my lack of belief in Christianity to my friends.
 
Have there ever been any actual cases of people saying they had NDEs of Hell? I've only heard of the Heaven ones and a few using similarly pleasant concepts from other religions.
 
My favorite bit:

He's got kids into punk rock believing that hell will be party time.
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Uh, I was into punk rock, and I gotta say, it had absolutely nothing to do with any devils or hell or Jesus or angels or heaven or anything like that.

Jack, dude, what planet do you live on?!

ETA: I shouldn't have said "was"... I still dig punk... The Stooges? Doesn't get any better! I wanna be your dog!
 
Didaktylos said:
Sometimes I think that the only logical explanation for Chick is that he is in fact the greatest and longest serving Poe ever ...
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Wouldn't THAT be cool!

A journey to the South Pole? Child's play, I say!
 
Piggy said:
My favorite bit:



Uh, I was into punk rock, and I gotta say, it had absolutely nothing to do with any devils or hell or Jesus or angels or heaven or anything like that.

Jack, dude, what planet do you live on?!

ETA: I shouldn't have said "was"... I still dig punk... The Stooges? Doesn't get any better! I wanna be your dog!
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Hell is an eternity of Barry Manilow.
 
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