Sorry if you guys have seen this, but I thought it was hilarious.
snortle, guffaw
Once again a “Jonny come lately” religion butts in to another religions holy day.
I especially liked the quote from the Chickoid in California, who claimed that the kids were yelling “Hey, they’re giving out the good stuff!” and assumed that they were talking about the Chick Tracts. They were probably giving out Snickers as the candy to go with it. THAT’S the good stuff, you morons!
There should be a law stating that if you observe the residents of a house giving out religious pamphlets instead of candy, you can legally TP, egg, and use shaving cream on their property.
These people are just blatantly lying now. Can anyone here tell me what happens to houses that just leave their stuff out on the porch with a sign reading “TAKE ONE”? That’s right. Their pumpkins “disappear”, all of their candy “disappears”, and those tracts would have been strewn across their lawn. Not to mention the flaming bags of poo that would appear the next night.
As a child I was raised Roman Catholic *and * dressed as the devil (full red body suit, horns and tail) one halloween so I take a broader perspective of the whole thing. I’m Lutheran now but think it would be a hoot if one of Jack’s R.C. neighbors passed out death cookies along with candy. Oh mercy! I am one twisted mofo.
Question: How do you mean this? “Halloween” as a holiday was first codified as official in the eighth century by Pope Gregory III when he moved All Saints Day from May 13 to November 1, making October 31 Allhallows Eve or “Hallowe’en”. Yes, there were pre-Christian Celtic and Roman Pagan celebrations, the Roman festival for the Goddess of orchards and the harvest, Pomona, was on November 1 as well as end of year celebrations of Samhain, including bonfires, sacrifices, and turnips carved with faces to frighten off the spirits of the dead, but Halloween as “Halloween” is a Christian holiday. The older Pagan practices were adapted into the new holiday, the same way Easter co-opted many of the fertility symbols of pre-Christian spring celibrations( hares, eggs ).
Not taking anything away from the OP, just trying to set the facts straight. I, too, think Jack Chick is a loon, and have considered typing up a fact sheet with the above and some other facts about where Halloween truly comes from, for distribution to the self-same smug assholes who do things like give out Chick Tracts to trick-or-treaters.
Like dropping a Jack Chick tract into an innocent child’s candy bag isn’t a form of poisoning.
Thanks for the responses.
I found Chick’s piece funny on several levels. The insanity, for one. The (what appears to me) disgruntled little witch and devil at the top, possibly right after they’ve realised just what the kind old neighbour has put in their sacks. The wording “drop Jack Chick tracts into Trick-or-Treat bags …”.
I know Chick’s been done to death (especially in the Pit), but I came across this last night while trawling through some bookmarked sites, and couldn’t stop laughing.
Okay, so I’m a non-Christian with a sense of humour. If this had been anywhere else, including The Onion, it would be a parody.
It still cracks me up. And Weirddave? Go for it. Ignorance is to be corrected.
I especially liked these:
Wouldn’t this get you fired?
Since when is a “walk through hell” a “real-life situation?”
I actually had this done to me!
My friend and I got religious comic strip tracts in our trick-or-treat bags the last time we went. They weren’t as nutty as Chick’s stuff, just generally lame.
The fact that we were both dressed as Norse gods may or may not have had something to do with it. 
Oh I hope no one does that. Those things scared me badly when I was a little kid. They really did, I had bad dreams and everything. 
I liked the one quote where the kid said he wanted some more, because his dad wanted to read them.
My guess is that dad wanted to read them to make darn sure that the neighbors were indeed nuts before he actually spoke ill of them in front of his children. 