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Jack Chick is Dead

If there is an afterlife, Chick experienced one of two scenarios:

1) He goes up, looks around, recoils and says "What are they doing here?"

2) He goes down, looks up, and says "Why are they all up there, while I'm down here?"

Either way, he realizes now that he is dead, he needs to re-think his life.
 
I just hope someone will take up the mantle of drawing Fang. I cannot face a Fangless life.
 
Here is a take from someone who REALLY did not like Jack Chick:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2016/10/24/haw-haw-haw/

Chick’s cartoons were infused with the abominable fancy — the idea that the supreme delight awaiting true believers in Heaven would be that they got to watch the eternal torment of wicked sinners in Hell. That was pretty much the essence of Chick’s faith. Nowhere in his ubiquitous cartoon pamphlets would you find any hint of love for God, love for Jesus, or love for neighbor. That wasn’t what animated him. He was driven, instead, by the eschatological hope that one day God would settle all the arguments he was never able to win here on earth — settle them with remorseless, bloodthirsty finality.

It was an ugly religion often portrayed in an aggressively ugly, misanthropic style of art — like a curdled version of second-tier R. Crumb.
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The Big Dog said:
Infinite. He was one of those fanatical anti-Catholics you rarely see outside of the KKK, westboro baptist and international skeptics sites.
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"The Death Cookie" is one of his very best tracts! Made Catholicism seem so much more exciting than it actually is. His version of Catholicism is like if vampires ran the story-arc conspiracy from the X-Files, with some Doctor Who thrown in. If he'd known it was just regular Christianity except with better decor and worse music he'd have been sadly disappointed. (Also it's the denomination most likely to lead to hip and knee replacements in old age, thanks to all that sit-stand-kneeling. The Catholic version of God punishes those who skip leg day.)
 
TragicMonkey said:
"The Death Cookie" is one of his very best tracts! Made Catholicism seem so much more exciting than it actually is. His version of Catholicism is like if vampires ran the story-arc conspiracy from the X-Files, with some Doctor Who thrown in. If he'd known it was just regular Christianity except with better decor and worse music he'd have been sadly disappointed. (Also it's the denomination most likely to lead to hip and knee replacements in old age, thanks to all that sit-stand-kneeling. The Catholic version of God punishes those who skip leg day.)
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I dispute the "worse music" part. The Catholics got Poulenc.
 
Jack Chick now gets to spend eternity with the 25-30 other people who have followed his precise brand of quasi-Lutheran evangelical fire-and-brimstone Christianity.
 
TubbaBlubba said:
Jack Chick now gets to spend eternity with the 25-30 other people who have followed his precise brand of quasi-Lutheran evangelical fire-and-brimstone Christianity.
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SInce Lutherans believe in the Real Presence in Communion (although in a different way then Catholics do) and Chick Considered ANY form of real presence to be the work of Satan, I doubt the Lutherans would have much fondness for Chick.
 
dudalb said:
SInce Lutherans believe in the Real Presence in Communion (although in a different way then Catholics do) and Chick Considered ANY form of real presence to be the work of Satan, I doubt the Lutherans would have much fondness for Chick.
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I think the arguments of Luther would be way too complex for Chick, but the obsession with the total depravity of humanity reversible only through sheer the sheer grace of God accessible through faith only has a hardcore Lutheran tint to it.

Luther might also object to the KJV-onlyism of Chick, but as a matter of fact modern-day (German-speaking) Lutherans revere Luther's translation of the Bible much the same way.

I wonder if there is any hardcore Swedish sect somewere obsessed with the translation of Luther's Bible into Swedish commissioned by Gustav Wasa during the reformation of Sweden. Written Swedish has changed very, very much since then however, so it is cumbersome to read.
 
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'God': You have a choice...reincarnate back to Earth or join the team of guides dedicated to getting people out of the hell you all helped create in their belief systems. How do you choose?

Chick: How is it my responsibility that they are in hell? I didn't create it, you did!

'God': Reincarnation back to Earth it is then...
 
For me the weirdest part of Chick tracts was the negation of God in favor of Jesus. He would write things like "Jesus created the universe" and such to the point where Jesus wasn't God's son, there was no actual personage God it was only Jesus himself.

I realize not all Christian denominations accept the Trinity but it surprised me that there were any who preferred Jesus to God to the point where they dropped God from the religion entirely.
 
TragicMonkey said:
For me the weirdest part of Chick tracts was the negation of God in favor of Jesus. He would write things like "Jesus created the universe" and such to the point where Jesus wasn't God's son, there was no actual personage God it was only Jesus himself.

I realize not all Christian denominations accept the Trinity but it surprised me that there were any who preferred Jesus to God to the point where they dropped God from the religion entirely.
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Solus Christus - another antique Lutheran/Calvinist teaching that pops up among US Evangelical Fundies.
 
TragicMonkey said:
For me the weirdest part of Chick tracts was the negation of God in favor of Jesus. He would write things like "Jesus created the universe" and such to the point where Jesus wasn't God's son, there was no actual personage God it was only Jesus himself.

I realize not all Christian denominations accept the Trinity but it surprised me that there were any who preferred Jesus to God to the point where they dropped God from the religion entirely.
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Personage - up until the 'God in the flesh' doctrine, the being was fairly unspecific...reportedly a male and also reportedly hard to look at without the observer keeling over and dying.

The Jesus image (graven as it is) replaced that.

All the same, interactions with 'God' are generally one-sided prayers or internal conversations...
 
Navigator said:
Personage - up until the 'God in the flesh' doctrine, the being was fairly unspecific...reportedly a male and also reportedly hard to look at without the observer keeling over and dying.

The Jesus image (graven as it is) replaced that.

All the same, interactions with 'God' are generally one-sided prayers or internal conversations...
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There is also the doctrine/teaching of the Pre-Christ, which holds that some beings in the OT generally thought to be The Father (e.g. the angel/God Jacob wrestles to earn the name "Israel") are actually the Word/Son.
 
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