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Merged Chick Tracts

Craig B said:
http://www.chick.com/m/reading/tracts/readtract.asp?stk=1096
Amazing stuff!
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Yes, it is amazing, especially the panel that says
Mary was a vessel to bring forth the Son of God. Nothing more. She had no other special purpose.​

It never occurs to the writer to question why would God need to have a "vessel" to have a son or even have the son altogether.

It never occurs to him to apply to himself the exact same statement that he wrote in the later panel
I can't believe it Janet. My church lied to me all mall my life.​

With all the Evangelicals' polemic against the Catholic Church they never considered that the only way they could have known anything about Christianity is through the centuries of the Catholic Church’s fabrication, dissemination, indoctrination, inculcation and enforcement of it throughout the 1500 years before Luther or Calvin were born and as such they are only a branch of the tree and as Jesus himself supposedly said:


Luke 6:43-44
For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.​

Matthew 7:15-20
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.​

Matthew 3:10
And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.​


Also they have never apparently read this passage which basically renders God needing a vessel to incubate a son and the son himself altogether pointless and meaningless never mind the insanity of the whole idea in the first place.

Luke 16:27-31
1 And he [Jesus] said also unto his disciples........
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Whereupon he said, Then, father, I pray thee send him to my own father’s house; for I have five brethren; let him give these a warning, so that they may not come, in their turn, into this place of suffering. Abraham said to him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them listen to these. They will not do that, father Abraham, said he; but if a messenger comes to them from the dead, they will repent. But he answered him, If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will be unbelieving still, though one should rise from the dead.​
 
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I've always suspected the peculiar hatred certain branches of evangelical Christianity have for Mary is due to straight-up bone-deep misogyny.

Which is pretty damn crazy because it makes the Catholic Church look feminist by comparison.

Whoever the ghost artist is, they can't do faces. Grandma's supposed to look ugly because she's evil, of course, but what is up with little Megan? That third panel...she looks like Grimace from McDonaldland. Lil' Suzy was nearly humanoid. Megan looks like she's mutated from something, or been partially melted.
 
SezMe said:
My favorite part:


Ha, ha. Some daughters. Nobody gives a **** about them.
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Chick is probably referring to Matthew 13, where Jesus' brothers are counted and named, but not his sisters.
54 And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works? 55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? 56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things? 57 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. 58 And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
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TragicMonkey said:
I've always suspected the peculiar hatred certain branches of evangelical Christianity have for Mary is due to straight-up bone-deep misogyny.
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I think this is probably more true than we give credit to, however, even the catholic church has issues in that women either have to be depicted as pure like Mary or as fallen women like Mary Magdalene. There is no room for ordinary women. Actually I find the whole cartoon pretty offensive
 
Every time I see one of these depictions of Catholicism, I find myself thinking I must have been raised in the most boring Catholic Church in the world....
 
I don't remember anybody in the catholic church I was raised in say that god had to obey Mary, or Satan had to obey Mary either.

It's as if this guy is counting on the ignorance and gullibility of the people reading his comics to make sure nobody trusts them dirty catholics.

</Ex-catholic opinion>
 
Look, man, the other kids obviously must have phased out like that one Star Trek episode with Riker and the Pegasus, just like Jesus did, leaving Mary physically (and presumably mentally, if ya know what I mean) virginal.

Wait. That means Joseph must have phased, wait, wut?
 
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