To elaborate, because I am tired and I feel like it.
^H = CTRL H which deletes characters. Same as hitting backspace.
Go ahead, go to a program that doesn’t remap it, like Character Map or a Dosprmpt. You can delete using CTRL H.
On to Chick related business. Sitting in the jacket pocket of one of my winter coats, I still have the tracts that were handed out to me on the streets of Georgetown by a construction hat wearing mob one Halloween night. I grabbed as many as I could. Funny lines. Geez, I showed those tracts to so many people. I am sure from afar I looked like an evangelist. Of course they couldn’t hear my satanic laughter. Or sense my death cookie upbringing.
Chick tracts are even funny when they are translated to Spanish, thats the ones I was able to find in LA.
Funny, but scary. Kids reading them might not get the joke.
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I find it very interesting that nothing is being brought to this discussion other then a basic Chick bashing. Would someone like to begin a genuine discussion and maybe actually point out something they believe is untrue in a Chick tract?
I’ve seen them all my life and have read most of them including the catholic comic books (which by the way are very factual about catholocism and what catholics believe. the opinion of chick that these beliefs will send them to hell is perhaps up for debate, but that doesn’t change the fact that they do believe the things chick proclaims.) I happen to believe catholicism is idol worship. They pray to dead people and statues, the eucharist and the transformation of the bread into christ (as it melts on your tongue I suppose?) That doesn’t mean I hate catholics. Hell I was born a catholic.
But just because you might find Chicks methods fanatical doesn’t mean their message is untrue. If you are a Christian you would have to agree idol worship is a horrible sin. You would also have to concede that the message of hell is a serious one and there is just no way to sugar coat it when you tell someone that their actions could send them to hell if they don’t repent.
Chick may have an unothodox approach to evangelism but that doesn’t mean they are preaching falsehoods. I really am interested in seeing what fallacies people have found in Chick tracts. Thanks.
Or the “do exactly as I say or be doomed to eternal hellfire tract?” Oh wait … that’s all of them.
So from these tracts, I’ve figured out that Christianity cures drug dealers (even ones who sell black beauties, whatever the hell they are). Jesus also cures such afflictions as alcoholism, abuse, Buddhism, Judaism, suicidal thoughts, homosexuality, and about 50 other subjects I didn’t read about.
Sounds great! Where do I sign up? I’ve got this nagging case of Buddhism that I just can’t seem to get rid of.
I remember those tracts. The got passed out to people leaving rock concerts. The Pope and the Freemasons are in alliance with the Illuminati and stuff. I don’t have the link, but check out the Jack Chick Parody Archive. Before Mr. Chick threatened legal action, they took the comics and changed the words. It is still around, but now they have to do their own drawings. The Church of Subgenius (still trying to figure them out, but bizarre stuff) has a parody site called “Slack Archives”
Oh man. Talk about memories. I had a “friend” in high school who used to pass those fucking things around to all of us. I remember the Death Cookie, and how the Catholics not only backed the Nazis, but also Communism.
They were this guys main amunnition to “disprove” evolution.
I haven’t actually seen a Chick tract in about 10 years. There IS a God!
PitBullDawg, despite your claim to having been born Catholic, this statement (like the Chick Tracts) has a number of errors and misunderstandings:
We went over the basic lies that Chick tells the last time we had a thread on this subject and I’m not up to dragging them up again. Basically, the stuff the gets said is a distortion of what Catholics believe. You are free to believe that the RCC is wrong. It helps,however, if you (and Chick) take issue with what the RCC actually believes, not what you want them to believe.
We can go back and forth over “praying” to saints (with the issue that the word has more than one meaning and we never agree on which meaning is used). We can disagree over the reality of the Eucharist. Catholics do not, however, “pray to statues.” On other issues, Chick has deliberately lied. That’s a fact. He also links his site to others who deliberately lie. That’s a fact.
Anyone remember Roberto? From the Crusaders comics. The catholic priest who exposed all the evil stuff about the Catholic church. How they were tied to the illuminati. What ever happened to him?
FWIW,
The lady I used to take piano lessons from had those religious comic books in her house all the time for the kids, and they were mainly just recreations of bible stories I’d heard before. (Parting of the Red Sea, Noahs Ark, etc).
I was at the Chick parody site, and I almost choked to death laughing (which would have no doubt resulted in those black robed grim reapers showing up at my house). “The Good, The Bad, and the Fundy” is about the funniest thing I’ve read in a while.
Love is like popsicles…you get too much you get too high.
The way the tract Baby Talk begins, it almost seems to advocate abortion! There are a few people there who could stand to have not been brought into the world. And get the bumper sticker on the trashy couples’ car; doesn’t that just scream, “Environmentalists are evil heathens who care more about the planet than Human beings!!”??
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy
I thought I wrote a pretty cogent analysis of these things the last time the Chick tracts topic came up. Nobody else seemed to agree, but in case you’re interested, it’s at http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/000543.html
OK, Pitbulldawg. You say that Catholics pray to dead people and statues. WRONG!!! We absoulutely do not pray to statues (or icons, in the Greek church). If, as your post would lead one to believe, you are a Christian, then you should know that to be dead in the flesh is to be alive in Christ. The saints are not “dead people”. They are alive in the presence of God. And we do not pray to them. We ask them to intercede with us before God, much the same way as you would ask a Christian friend or family member to pray for you. And as for the Eucharist, the Bible explicitly states that it is in fact the body and blood of Christ. I refer you to John 6:53,54, 1 Corinthians 10:16 and Luke 22:19,20.
OK, I’m ranting. Jack Chick comic distributing fundamentalist Protestant types who have as much regard for the truth as they would for a cockroach really get under my skin.
I never could get the hang of Thursdays. - Arthur Dent
My roommate was once handed one of these (This one) on the street here in Santa Cruz. This sort of amuses me, because SC probably has a larger population of Wiccans than Born Again Christians.
That one (in Big Daddy?) cracked me up. Now, I’m no scientist, and I myself know nothing about this topic, although something tells me that it probably isn’t Jesus holding the atoms together.
Hey, those things scared me! I got one after I ran into an old classmate at a conference. That dude was scary–he had definite mental problems and the chick tract was just as scary! I don’t EVER want to be around those people!
They didn’t. According to some fundamentalist thought (including Chick) Christ existed from before the Creation. Before Christ, there were no atoms, 'cause he and his papa and Casper hadn’t created anything yet. It was, however, before Christ had a mortal human body.