# Anyone see this Chick Tract? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 2, 2006, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-this-chick-tract/355052 "2006-05-02T03:37:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-this-chick-tract/355052/21 "2006-05-02T15:04:28Z")
I’m not sure why young Henry had a shiner; seems like a plot point was dropped on the cutting room floor. I was expecting Mom or Dad to be abusive. Or maybe Henry just likes people beating on him, he hangs out at a run-down mission so the people there will give him the beatings he craves. With “such a one no not to eat” is awfully awkward phrasing. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-this-chick-tract/355052/22 "2006-05-02T15:10:21Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Is it me or is the guy trying to knife Johnny either a Chinese charicature or a Charles Addams cartoon? And the pimp looks a lot like Tony Clifton. And the megachurch preacher is played by Elsa Lanchester. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-this-chick-tract/355052/23 "2006-05-02T15:26:04Z")
It’s the mothers fault. She dragged the kids out late on a sunday night when they all knew they should be home in bed so they’d be rested for school, they even said so! No wonder three of them are going to hell. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-this-chick-tract/355052/24 "2006-05-02T15:31:50Z")
> [@Guin](#): > > With “such a one no not to eat” is awfully awkward phrasing. It does sound odd, but apparently it is in the [King James Version](http://bibledev.azaz.com/bibleresources/passagesearchresults2.php?passage1=1+Corinthians+5&book_id=53&version1=9&tp=16&c=5). (Strictly speaking, it should be “such an one”.) Translation weirdness somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-this-chick-tract/355052/25 "2006-05-02T15:42:18Z")
Jack really has mellowed in his old age. There’s very little to really mock here. Okay, there’s still something, but it’s nothing compared to “Dark Dungeons” or “Death Cookie”. Only vaguely paranoid (I suspect panel 12 is some bizarro-world version of “stop protelytizing at work”). Not insultingly ignorant of other religions. Not chock full of conapiracy theory. The Christian, if judgemental, helps the poor and the downtrodden. One of the villains is the kind of hypocrit we all love to hate. Needs more Jesuit conspiracies. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-this-chick-tract/355052/26 "2006-05-02T16:03:59Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > It’s the mothers fault. Naw, it’s the three angels’ fault. Notice how Henry’s angel doesn’t give up; he’s in there snatching snakes away from the unregenerate brat’s ankles and rooting for him all the way. The other three angels are quitters, abandoning their charges at the first discouraging sign, mumbling excuses about how “the word of God didn’t take root in him” and “I was told to leave” and “I’ve seen enough of this kid’s porn addiction”. The truth is, of course, they just wanted to get back to their poker game with St. Peter. How can you expect a guy to avoid the snares of sin when his guardian angel is such an unmotivated defeatist? I mean, really. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-this-chick-tract/355052/27 "2006-05-02T16:12:44Z")
> [@Gaudere](#): > > I’m not sure why young Henry had a shiner; seems like a plot point was dropped on the cutting room floor. No, it’s there: Tom, the guy he bails out of jail, says “I’m sorry I hit you again.” ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-this-chick-tract/355052/28 "2006-05-02T16:15:18Z")
No, **Biffy** , why did **young** Henry have a shiner, i.e., as a kid at the revival meeting? (cynical answer: so the artist could make him more recognizable among his brothers by giving him similar injuries in the later frames.) ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-this-chick-tract/355052/29 "2006-05-02T16:17:00Z")
The Guardian Angel sitting on the roof of that guy’s car reminded me of Rusty Jones. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-this-chick-tract/355052/30 "2006-05-02T16:18:50Z")
And on rereading, I notice I inadvertently called **Gaudere** **Guin**. Sorry about that, I guess my angel’s attention wandered. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-this-chick-tract/355052/31 "2006-05-02T16:18:57Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > No, **Biffy** , why did **young** Henry have a shiner, i.e., as a kid at the revival meeting? Oh, duh. I was so distracted by the Band-Aid (the kid cut himself shaving or what?), I didn’t even notice the black eye until we saw him as an adult. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-this-chick-tract/355052/32 "2006-05-02T16:25:00Z")
I think Henry was a clumsy SOB, hence the bumps and bruises. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-this-chick-tract/355052/33 "2006-05-02T16:37:21Z")
> [@Rune](#): > > [Bloodsucking carriers of disease](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=314800)…this one is a bit misleading. By the title you’d think it was about liberals, but it is in fact a Chick thread. SPLORT!!! I didn’t see that one coming. Thanks for a good laugh, **Rune**! ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-this-chick-tract/355052/34 "2006-05-02T16:37:44Z")
From Henry’s perpetually battered and bloody face we can infer that, while his guardian angel handles the big stuff (e.g. snakes and knife wielding non-whites), he’s on his own for the little bumps and bruises. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-this-chick-tract/355052/35 "2006-05-02T16:48:51Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Is it me or is the guy trying to knife Johnny either a Chinese charicature or a Charles Addams cartoon? I thought it was Cheech Marin (circa 1974). ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-this-chick-tract/355052/36 "2006-05-02T17:40:57Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > I thought it was Cheech Marin (circa 1974). Because we all know that pot smoking makes you want to stab childern. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-this-chick-tract/355052/37 "2006-05-02T18:38:08Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > It does sound odd, but apparently it is in the [King James Version](http://bibledev.azaz.com/bibleresources/passagesearchresults2.php?passage1=1+Corinthians+5&book_id=53&version1=9&tp=16&c=5). (Strictly speaking, it should be “such an one”.) Translation weirdness somewhere. Huh? I think you quoted someone else-unless you were picking up something I said in one of the Chick threads **Rune** linked to. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-this-chick-tract/355052/38 "2006-05-02T20:01:41Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Naw, it’s the three angels’ fault. Notice how Henry’s angel doesn’t give up; he’s in there snatching snakes away from the unregenerate brat’s ankles and rooting for him all the way. The other three angels are quitters, abandoning their charges at the first discouraging sign, mumbling excuses about how “the word of God didn’t take root in him” and “I was told to leave” and “I’ve seen enough of this kid’s porn addiction”. But they really spring into action if any of the charges try to use a credit card other than Capitol One’s. ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-this-chick-tract/355052/39 "2006-05-02T20:46:53Z")
She quoted me, Guin. I knew it was in the KJV because I looked it up, having a brief period of hope that Chick had made a typo (write-o?) and I’d be able to call him on it. Sadly, it was accurate. Still a weird phrase though. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-this-chick-tract/355052/40 "2006-05-03T00:41:58Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > The other three angels are quitters, abandoning their charges at the first discouraging sign, mumbling excuses about how “the word of God didn’t take root in him” and “I was told to leave” and “I’ve seen enough of this kid’s porn addiction”. > > The truth is, of course, they just wanted to get back to their poker game with St. Peter. Don’t be so harsh. Maybe it wasn’t poker. Maybe they had to go find the local video store. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-this-chick-tract/355052.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-this-chick-tract/355052.md?page=3)