When you say “like”, you mean you think they’re good and would actually use them as a witnessing tool, right?
Let’s say that I think they are actually better than his other stuff, and that if the other stuff hadn’t ruined his credibility, I wouldn’t mind using them as witnessing tools. As it is, however, I wouldn’t use any Chick tract as a witnessing tool- not wanting a prospective convert to think I was into the whole Chick mindset.
I just remembered the first Chick tract I read, and one of my favorites:
Angels?
I first heard about Chick Tracts in a book called High Wierdness by Mail. Accompanying the explanation of what these little pieces of strangeness are was a tract I have since had identified as “The Last Generation” In this one the Rapture actually occurs as two of the faithful are being besieged by the bad guys! You should check it out.
Wow. I mean, just wow. I had no idea that Chick’s ouvre was so varied. Catholics, The Gays, truck stops, and rock bands? I remember seeing “This Was Your Life” once and throwing it as far from me as I could. This is before I developed the subtly warped sense of humor I now possess.
I think my favorite out of this batch is “Angels?” where the two band members get married and their manager gives them AIDS for a wedding present. Truly a thoughtful gift. :eek:
I’ll have to admit to a fondness for Why is Mary Crying? (My other favorite, Dark Dungeons was previously mentioned.)
Years ago (1988 or so) I was away from home at the corporate headquarters of the (now defunct) weight-loss company I worked for. Outside the training classroom was a rack of Chick Tracts. All sorts of them, some in Spanish, but a wide selection.
We weren’t really being given homework, and I didn’t much like going out by myself after class, so I used to take 3 or 4 tracts back to my hotel room with me, and go through them comparing the verses referenced to the real context in my handy Gideon Bible. It was most amusing, and enlightening in a bizarre way, since I’d not run into any sort of real fundamentalism before that. (I was raised mostly Lutheran/Methodist with occasional visits to Mass when my Catholic grandmother visited.)
Yes, I’m a research geek, why do you ask? 
The Last Generation has always been my favorite. During the 70s my mom was really into Hal Lindsey’s apocalyptic tomes such as The Late Great Planet Earth. I love Hitler-tyke Bobby’s dialogue, “I hate you and your Jesus!! You’re an insane criminal! I hope the healers kill you!” Jesus Billy, lighten up on grandpa.
Any Chick parody is hilarious. I am stunned anyone would use the real ones as a witnessing tool.
I’ve seen some (you can pick em up free in most fundie churches). Never seen an anti-gay one yet. Which is the best for that? How many does he have altogether?
Damn you! I didn’t see the word parody and I’m like What the hell???!!! Good one. very good.
Those were great! “I also pee champagne.”
Didn’t read any of the parodies, but if the stuff they’ve got on their about their exchanges with Chick’s lawyers are any indication, they sound like as big a bunch of jerks as Chick ever is.
Alas, the best one (meaning the least homophobic and at least attempting to be compassionate) is WOUNDED CHILDREN, which, of course, is out of print in favor of DOOM TOWN (ref to Sodom), which I think is their anti-gay one. The first was THE GAY BLADE.
http://members.aol.com/monsterwax/chick.html
This is probably the most exhaustive Chick resource on the Net that isn’t set up by Chick himself- and it seems to have a Rev. Richard Lee as its source. He seems both sympathetic to what Chick tries to do (share the Gospel of Salvation through JC) while critical of his extreme paranoid forays.
If that’s an attempt at compassion and not homophobic, then it’s a dismal failure. It’s hateful and lying, links homosexuality to pedeophillia, and suggests looking at straight porn turns people gay (go figure that out).
I said it was less homophobic than his other gay-themed tracts and at least attempted a sort of compassion. I didn’t say it was accurate or successfully compassionate.
Geeze, dude, haven’t you ever seen the movie Videodrome? It’s quite obvious that that film was a coded message to the rest of the world about what things the folks behind the gay agenda were doing! The fact that the film doesn’t mention anything about how after looking at porn, you “get the gays” is because they needed to slip it past the TPTB. Oh shit, I’ve said too much! They’re going to be after me! Avenge my death!
You are the Video Word made Flesh… all hail the New Flesh!
I assume he made one about Islam?
Does anyone remember which is the one where Bob visits a park and sees two kids who are swearing (#@!*%), and Bob lectures them not to use God’s name in vain?
I’ve been looking for that one, it was great. One of the kids had a ridiculous outfit.