Chick tracks...are these things for real?

John_DiFool · May 25, 2007, 3:42pm

Found a parody site:

gytalf2000 · May 25, 2007, 4:08pm

It has been a long time since I have seen a Chick Tract, but it is always fun to hear about them on the SDMB! I remember having this vague feeling that the person writing the tracts was doing them as a subtle parody of Fundamentalist beliefs! I guess I was wrong!

Sunrazor · May 25, 2007, 4:09pm

Okay, see, this is what is just so confusing about the fundies. Are these the guys who take the Bible literally? 'Cuz if so, why would they turn around and protray the Virgin Mary as a cult leader working for Satan? I mean, is it only the Old Testament that’s literal to them, but the New Testament is whatever they want it to be? I’m so !

BrainGlutton · May 25, 2007, 4:31pm

In Chick’s view, Mary herself was never a cult leader; it’s the RCC that made a Satanic cult of her veneration – Satanic because it practically elevates her above Jesus.

Trunk · May 25, 2007, 4:32pm

I like the “African” version.

Also, I beat my meat to that drawing he made in the adultery panel. Thanks, Chick.

Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor · May 25, 2007, 5:26pm

TheLoadedDog:

I almost feel sorry for a guy who used to give these things out at my workplace…

I work for the post office, and this bloke was a truck driver. A fundamentalist Christian (we used to joke he’d measure truck journeys not in miles but in Hail Marys [or maybe something a bit less RC]), but also a nice, friendly guy. He’d give us Chick tracts. This was about fifteen years ago, and I was a bit younger, a bit more of a stoner, and a bit less serious at the time. Most people would awkwardly refuse the tracts when this guy offered them, but my friend and I always took them, and not only that, but we’d come up and ask for the things.

The truck driver stopped giving them to us when he began to suspect we were only reading them for their comedic value. He also seemed rather hurt. So on one hand I feel a bit bad about it, but on the other hand, I reckon being one of the few people who couldn’t get a Chick tract even by asking for one is pretty cool.

~~Bolding by Bosda.
You were using them for rolling papers, weren’t you?

Skywatcher · May 25, 2007, 5:37pm

Who will be eaten first?

Sunrazor · May 25, 2007, 6:11pm

Yeah, well, see how damn ineffective their “witnessing” is? I’m a college grad-ee-ate, and even I got confused about what they were trying to say. I can’t believe I’m too damn dumb to figure out a comic!

BTW, I loved the cop’s quip in **Der Trihs’ ** post – I don’t know where you find these gems, but I love them!

Chimera · May 25, 2007, 7:05pm

You bastard. I had oral surgery yesterday afternoon and you made me laugh out loud. More vicodin and ibuprofin please.

Sean_Factotum · May 25, 2007, 7:08pm

That is my favorite. I’ve got it hanging up in my cubicle.

Der_Trihs · May 25, 2007, 7:48pm

What other side ? I used the term “true believer” to be as unspecific as possible.

Mr.Moto · May 25, 2007, 8:15pm

That is so, Der Trihs.

As William F. Buckley once said, you have your own gods, and they are fiercely worshiped.

Lanzy · May 25, 2007, 8:21pm

WOW! :eek: Link? Please?

GIGObuster · May 25, 2007, 8:23pm

I don’t support **Der Trihs ** when he goes extreme, but I need you to explain what gods are you talking about here.

Der_Trihs · May 25, 2007, 8:29pm

Sorry, it was a news story I heard quite a few years ago.

FriarTed · May 25, 2007, 11:47pm

It probably confuses the issue that the Catholic term for the system of Marian or Saint veneration is “the cult of the Virgin” or “the cult of the Saints”. “Cult” should pretty much be retired as a word. It technically means any system of worship but now is taken to mean any religion one considers false or excessive.