# A Jack Chick question **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 24, 2003, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-jack-chick-question/170775 "2003-04-24T04:06:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-jack-chick-question/170775/21 "2003-04-25T14:27:32Z")
Tom: Don’t be puzzled. My reply wasn’t useles. Joel wants it to be useless so he could post a jerkish comment in the wrong forum. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-jack-chick-question/170775/22 "2003-04-25T14:54:19Z")
Actually, Chick does answer e-mails to him. (or, one of his employees does, it’s more correct to say. I’ve e-mailed him in the past and gotten an answer.) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-jack-chick-question/170775/23 "2003-04-25T17:02:54Z")
Hey, I just found [this](http://24.236.177.70:8080/dissections/chick/chick.html) site this morning, while playing Caption This. Cool! ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-jack-chick-question/170775/24 "2003-04-25T17:21:33Z")
[Cameron Frye] Jack Chick, you’re my hero! [/Cameron Frye] ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-jack-chick-question/170775/25 "2003-04-25T21:58:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*Hey, I just found [this](http://24.236.177.70:8080/dissections/chick/chick.html) site this morning, while playing Caption This. > > Cool! \*\* From the Web site: “He’s an excellent artist for the most part.” Talk about being fractally wrong; the man can’t draw to save his soul. ---
**Author:** ![BrightNShiny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@BrightNShiny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightNShiny)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-jack-chick-question/170775/26 "2003-04-25T22:24:11Z")
I’m totally hijacking this thread, but since it was brought up: > [@](#): > > Can we get an “ask the Hindu” thread one of these days, for the majority of us who will never open a page of the Bhagavad Vita? Boy, that’d be a long thread, since you’d get a million distinct viewpoints for each question. > [@](#): > > And since when is Kali more powerful than Shiva and Ganesh. Well, the mythology is complex and conflicting. I have seen stories where Vishnu appears to be more powerfful than Shiva and vice-versa. As to Kali, I have seen her referred to as a “shakti” which is the manifestation of the power of a god. If she is invoked to carry a certain aspect of a god’s power, than she could be quite powerful indeed. People who traditionally worshipped a particular god usually have mythologies in which their god is the most powerful, so it is presumable that Kali worshippers would view Kali as being more powerful than Shiva. However, this would be out of the view of most of the Hindu mythological stories. > [@](#): > > I started to read the Bhagavad Vita but stopped dead when halfway through chapter one was the statement that students should not question the teacher. Sanskrit is a complex language, and sometimes the translations miss things, although from my readings of the Mahabharata (which includes the Baghavad Gita), this may not be a completely off interpretation. I can make the argument, though, that traditionally in Hindu learning culture, one is not supposed to question a teacher in the sense of being disrespectful or argumentative, but not in the sense of some sort of blind obedience. However, given several stories in the Mahabharta, I’m hard pressed to make that argument in this case. However, the Baghavad Gita is not the only Hindu text, nor does it hold the only viewpoint in Hinduism. If you are limiting your study of Hinduism to part of the Baghavad Gita, then that would be like limiting your study of Christanity to one section of the Old Testament. End of the hijack. As for the OP, Jack Chick seems to be a literalist, so why would he put anything in there that he didn’t believe? ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-jack-chick-question/170775/27 "2003-04-26T01:46:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BrightNShiny \* > \*\*As for the OP, Jack Chick seems to be a literalist, so why would he put anything in there that he didn’t believe? \*\* Ooh – does that mean that in [Party Girl](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0099/0099_01.asp), Jack Chick really believes that Satan puts poison in peoples’ drinks _in person?_ ---
**Author:** ![BrightNShiny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@BrightNShiny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightNShiny)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-jack-chick-question/170775/28 "2003-04-26T03:38:03Z")
Yes. Or at least it makes my world just a little more amusing to believe he does. ---
**Author:** ![ricksummon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ricksummon/32/3333_2.png) [@ricksummon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricksummon)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-jack-chick-question/170775/29 "2003-04-26T04:29:15Z")
In Jack Chick’s **Big Daddy** tract, he claims that atomic nuclei are not held together by the strong nuclear force; instead, they’re held together by God’s will. If that is true, it means that God is the power source behind **nuclear weapons.** I wonder if Jack would let us store barrels of the most holy nuclear waste at his church. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-jack-chick-question/170775/30 "2003-04-26T06:58:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ricksummon \* > \*\*In Jack Chick’s **Big Daddy** tract, he claims that atomic nuclei are not held together by the strong nuclear force; instead, they’re held together by God’s will. If that is true, it means that God is the power source behind **nuclear weapons.** I wonder if Jack would let us store barrels of the most holy nuclear waste at his church. \*\* Well, hell, the Feds are forcing it on Nevada, shouldn’t be too much trouble to get Chick’s church turned into a nuclear waste storage facility. ---
**Author:** ![Phoenix\_Dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Phoenix\_Dragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phoenix_Dragon)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-jack-chick-question/170775/31 "2003-04-26T07:06:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ricksummon \* > **In Jack Chick’s Big Daddy tract, he claims that atomic nuclei are not held together by the strong nuclear force; instead, they’re held together by God’s will.** Hah! So every time we’ve detonated a nuke, we were showing that our power is greater than god’s will! Take _that_, god! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df788c/32.png) [@Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ben)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-jack-chick-question/170775/32 "2003-04-26T16:20:00Z")
Shhhh… God still has an inferiority complex over the fact that he’s powerless against iron chariots. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-jack-chick-question/170775/33 "2003-04-26T23:12:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ricksummon \* > In Jack Chick’s **Big Daddy** tract, he claims that atomic nuclei are not held together by the strong nuclear force; And his argument as to **why** nuclei aren’t held together by the strong nuclear force is a hoot in itself. “No one has seen gluons, therefore gluons don’t exist, therefore your entire model of the nucleus is wrong, therefore God did it.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-jack-chick-question/170775.md?page=1)