Passing out religious tracts.

kurious_kathy said:
So I was right you were in with the LDS. They are not Christian at all, they are a cult. The Mormons do not have Jesus right so no wonder you left. It's the truth that saves us, not religion. Jesus Christ is the risen Messiah and the only way to the Father. Jesus is not Michael the angel or Lucifers brother. Are you hearing me? The book of Moromon is nothing but false teachings so everything you were taught you need to get rid of and start with just a good version of the Bible. I would make sure it's not a Bible published by the Mormon church. No wonder, now I understand why you are so upset, you should be as the Mormon church has lied to you about how to be saved.

I could send you some of my tracts if you would like along with a good version of the Bible? Let me know if you are interested. Take Care RF
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Lame, pathetic, and illustrative of what I've been saying all along. Good God, Kathy, do you EVER read ANYTHING anyone else says, or do you just run off at the mouth any time you see an opportunity to preach?
 
siddhigyrl said:
When I lived in South Dakota, I used to get these mailed anonymously to me or left on my doorstep all the time because I was living in sin with a *gasp* woman. Might also be that I also put up flyers to start up a feminist/Goddess celebrant (yes I went through THAT phase :rolleyes:) group.

My dad was a United Methodist minister when I was little, and we always received Chick tracts at summer bible school, etc, and definitely every Halloween). Of course, we also received Gideon New Testaments right in my elementary school library during school hours (Appalachian VA).

I ordered a whole set of Chicks and randomly mail them to my brother (he's an atheist as well). Plus *BONUS* the apartment above him is used by the LDS to house missionaries, so he gets loads of fresh proselytizing every few months!

Slightly OT: How do you all feel about defacing Gideon bibles in hotel rooms? I tend to either (1) place a Gideon Exposed (evolvefishdotcom) sticker inside or (2) chuck it in the hallway. My brother likes to cut out tranny sex ads from local rags and gluestick them at crucial verses (a step up from him using the bible pages as TP and chucking them in the trash). We both piss off my semi-catholic boyfriend, understandably.
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You've brought up a valid point. It seems as though many atheists I know grew up as PKs, and after watching their parents over time, they simply decided "enough." I'm not sure how or why, (only someone who's grown up in that can explain it), but I suspect the answers might be interesting.

There was a time when Chick Tracts were a good thing; their message was simply "God loves you," told in an interesting way, and that was that. Then old Jack got into debunking Catholicism, and telling tales of the evils of witchcraft, he discovered there was money in scare tactics, and the whole enterprise went to hell. By the time he was slamming homosexuality, he'd gone from a guy just wanting to evangelize, and wanting others to be able to, all the way to being a producer of hate media. The only other person equally whacko is Bob Larson, as we could see with his "exorcism" of spirits of rebellion from housewives.

As to Gideon's Bibles, I don't vandalize them. I don't see any point in destroying someone else's property, regardless of my opinions. If they hand it to me, then it's mine. In a motel room, it's not mine at all, so I just stick it back in the drawer and leave it.
 
I've seen Catholic tracts in a cathedral, but I've never seen Catholics passing them out.
 
fuelair said:
The biggest problem with passing out religious tracts is they have to go through your digestive system so you can pass them out. And they taste terrible. Lots of fiber though.:jaw-dropp:eek:
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I'm imagining a series of parody tracts (along the lines of the Landover Baptist Church), called The Lower Tract.
 
(Sings) "Let the Lower tract be burning, warming heathens with it's light,
And if Christ is not your Master, may you nevermore see light!!!!!"
 
fuelair said:
The biggest problem with passing out religious tracts is they have to go through your digestive system so you can pass them out. And they taste terrible. Lots of fiber though.:jaw-dropp:eek:
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Ewwwwww....:eek:
 
On my campus I've received a few Chick tracts, handed out by various groups, but I've also received a lot other random religion pamphlets, books, etc. So it might mean anything... but personally I never hear the word "tracts" outside of Chick tracts, but I'm not too familiar with the full range of available religious pamphlets :)
 
Cayvmann said:
I used to get Chick Tracts all the time in my Halloween basket, but I did grow up in small town North Carolina.......
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My weird Uncle Ritchie- a fanatic catholic- used to give us religious artifacts for christmas.

Usually it involved jesus covered in blood. Bloody crucifixes--framed photos of jesus being crucified & covered in blood.

Wonderful gifts for a 7 year old......

"Gee, thanks for the crucifix Uncle Ritchie....that's so much neater than that model B-17 I wanted......
 
kk said:
So I was right you were in with the LDS. They are not Christian at all, they are a cult.
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All religions are cults.
<snip blah blah jesus blah>Are you hearing me?
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I don't know how this is for fiber, but this morsel is very rich in irony.
The book of Moromon is nothing but false teachings so everything you were taught you need to get rid of and start with just a good version of the Bible. I would make sure it's not a Bible published by the Mormon church. No wonder, now I understand why you are so upset, you should be as the Mormon church has lied to you about how to be saved.
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But the bible is also full of false teachings. Why not just put aside all these works of fiction that try to tell you you're going to live forever and just focus on living in the real non-fiction world for a change?
 
RandFan said:
As a Mormon missionary the primary means to gain converts is through "tracting". In Mormon parlance that means going door to door. We didn't always hand out literature AKA tracts but we often did.
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Is that a photo of you? Are you Little Jimmy Osmond?
 
Roadtoad said:
Lame, pathetic, and illustrative of what I've been saying all along. Good God, Kathy, do you EVER read ANYTHING anyone else says, or do you just run off at the mouth any time you see an opportunity to preach?
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The latter.
 
I got excited when I saw the words "Chick-Tracts", until I realized it was about skydaddy and not hot chicks...
 
Ralph said:
What he planned on doing was to go out late at night (AFTER dark)...and put tracts in mailboxes with a card that had RR's web address on it.
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Annoying, but much preferred to knocking on my door.

Roadtoad said:
As to Gideon's Bibles, I don't vandalize them. I don't see any point in destroying someone else's property, regardless of my opinions. If they hand it to me, then it's mine. In a motel room, it's not mine at all, so I just stick it back in the drawer and leave it.
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I think vandalizing them is childish and behavior we should be above.
 
RoboTimbo said:
Too much leavening? Punch him down, cover with a damp cloth, let him rise again for two hours. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes. Voila: Wonder bread. Recommended spread is Miracle Whip.
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That's ridiculous, can't you tell the difference between up christ's dead body and a some unleavened bread.

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Ralph said:
In other words--are "Chick tracts" to born again christians what "The Watchtower" is to jehovah's witnesses?
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Wow! Y'learn something every year! I was (until now) less-than-overly familiar with the term, which I had often - befuzzledly - guessed was in reference to comic-book versions of Chick Lit...

kurious_kathy said:
I don't know why you think they are irritating?
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Consider the possible reasons:
  1. because you don't actually think very often
 
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siddhigyrl said:
Slightly OT: How do you all feel about defacing Gideon bibles in hotel rooms? I tend to either (1) place a Gideon Exposed (evolvefishdotcom) sticker inside or (2) chuck it in the hallway. My brother likes to cut out tranny sex ads from local rags and gluestick them at crucial verses (a step up from him using the bible pages as TP and chucking them in the trash). We both piss off my semi-catholic boyfriend, understandably.
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http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2006/images/utah_bill.gif

http://www.evolvefish.com/fish/media/S-GideonExposed.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f355/villarestall/BibleSticker.jpg

http://www.ffrf.org/shop/products/images/ed_stickers/biblewarning.jpg

I'm pretty sure I've seen some of those for sale somewhere...

Penn and Teller had a good idea for Gideon Bibles in one of their books, can't remember what the idea was but i'm pretty sure it was it was funny...

ETA: found it - its a magic trick:

http://madprofessor.net/2006/01/penn-tellers-how-to-play-in-tr.html

(If you ever spend any time in any hotel rooms with GBs you should get this book and learn how to prepare this trick...)
 
kurious_kathy said:
I don't know why you think they are irritating? I love the different ways people write tracts to share the truth. I get my tracts from several places like Christian Books.com and such. I try to get them out consistently hoping the Lord can use them to help some receive him. Chick tracts are not ones I have ever passed out though.
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shadron said:
It's amusing thinking about how you would react to having someone place an atheist tract in your hand and ask you to read it, perhaps a couple of times a day. I imagine your love and tolerance might start running a little thin after about a week.

Or perhaps not.
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http://www.normalbobsmith.com/free/flyers/

Kurious_Kathy: I'd be really interested to hear your opinions on these flyers too...

Seriously - check these out, they're hilarious... I carry these round in my car... (I haven't quite had the guts to hand these out to anyone yet though)

Funny story - I showed these to a collegue at work (she's a woo, but really anti-religion). Somehow her 5 year-old grandson ended up with one of them and apparently, completely without any prompting, he ran up and handed it out to someone when they were walking down the beach one day...
 
Bob Smith's flyers are hilarious! I love Heaven is Awesome and What is Faith.
Will definitely make some up for next time I get one of THOSE knocks on the door.
 
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