Well, mine did. We got back from a rousing evening of trick-or-treating and performed the ceremonial dumping of the candy in preparation for separating/trading, when Whatsit Jr. noticed, “Hey, cool, a comic book!”
Highlights include a little boy who sins, is killed, and goes to eternal torment in Hell with no chance of redemption. You know, your classic Chick.
I had no idea that people actually still put these in Halloween bags. Whatsit Jr. is extremely disappointed that I will not let him read his new comic, but I told him I’d get him an X-Men or something instead.
It’s really odd how Chick makes Halloween ugly in this one, but in another it’s in good enough favor that the Christian neighbors hand out candy along with a tract. Called “The Little Princess” I think
I was in charge of handing out the candy this year, and saw Chick tracts sticking out of several trick-or-treaters’ loot bags. I told one little boy, “Don’t even bother reading that comic book, it’s not very funny.” I’m not sure he noticed.
“I’ll never forget this halloween! It’s the one where my best friend died and I now ensured my place in heaven! Thanks Timmy for being my own personal Jesus!”
There was a woman near my childhood home who used to do this. One cold winter day, bothered by a draft coming through a crack in the window molding, I noticed the Chick Tracts. An idea occured.
Seconds later, I was no longer bothered by the draft. Now I had learnt an important message, which was something along the lines of “God helps those who help themselves.”
Hmmm… Nothing in there about spending eternity in Hell for being a sanctimonious cow who’d happily drive a grieving mother to suicide the day her son was killed.
Jack Chick is a religious [del]nutcase[/del] person who has a company that prints little books called “tracts.” They are wrong on so many levels and so poorly done that one of our favorite activities is tearing them apart, usually done in the Pit.
Some moderate evangelical who can draw should come out with a similar product. They’d make a fortune. A lot of Evangelicals & even Fund’ists avoid handing out Chick tracts, even the mild ones, because of the extremely crazy ones.
Actually, the kids had a different tract, non-Jack Chick, that was still what I would consider evangelical, but without the crazy. It had a little yellow smiley face on the front and said, “God Loves You!” The inside was full of a lot of Bible verses and “Accept the Lord so that you may be saved!” but it didn’t involve, you know, small children getting killed and then tormented in eternal Hell. I let the kids keep that one.
Had a look at some of them. And although I support a persons right to preach their beliefs and freedom of speech, I do NOT think that extends to a child, not without a parents consent anyway. I am surprised that it was not caught by the parents, not that I am critising, I hasten to add, until later. I am not familiar with trick-o-treat logistics so to speak so apologies.