Look at this. Man in Black. It’s another Catholic-bashing tract from the pious doodler.
It compares the Virgin Mary with various pagan goddesses, calls various items associated with Mass forms of “idolatry”, ‘exposes’ the Vatican as a blasphemous plot by Satan to destroy true Christianity, subtly connects the Church with the Klan and other evil organisations, calls the Inquisition the most brutal act of hate in history, and lays several slams at the Popes, “intermarriage, pedophilia, incest, and occultic murders”, which were all “swept under the rug.” The convertee claims, “A priest that I knew said he actually saw those files in the Vatican. It’s all true!” Too bad, he shoulda consulted Cecil on that one, twenty years ago.
And in the end, Bob saves another blasphemous Catholic from hell.
Geez, the scariest part is the “What to Pray” section at the end, where it instructs you on what to say to god if you’re a Catholic heathen and want to “repent and be saved!” And that insistence on the KJV of the bible after that elequent quotation about never changing the Bible. :rolleyes:
Chick’s mini-tracts are hilarious/bewildering enough, but if you want a really full-on dose of ignorance, check out his full-length color comic books. A born-again co-worker has the entire series of them and lent them to me to persue.
The storylines concern two huge muscular fellows, one white and one black, who call themselves “The Crusaders” and travel around the world fighting evil, i.e., Catholics, Jews, Liberals, and Satanists, though not necessarily in that order.
My personal fave was “Spellbound”, where the pagan/Satanic roots of rock music were revealed, along with the “fact” that 90 percent of the media and governmental elites are in on the conspiracy.
Rough quote from memory: “The Beatles introduced America to Satanic Eastern religous thought in the 1960’s…it was a well-planned assault on Jesus Christ…America will never recover”.
As I posted in that thread, Chick’s distortion of history can appeal only to grade school dropouts.
Some of Chick’s biggest whoppers:
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[li]Emperor Constantine was not a pope[/li]
[li]The primacy of the bishop of Rome as the head of Christendom was not generally accepted until the reign of Leo I (440-461) and even then the Orthodox Patriarchate in Constantinople did not always accept papal authority. [/li]
[li]Medieval Europe was not the desolate place depicted by Chick. The breakup of the Western Roman Empire into new states was a replacement, not the destruction of, civil order. Moreover, Chick ignores the cultural and political vibrancy of the Byzantine Empire, whose authority extended as far west as Italy, and the rise of the Cordovan emirate in Spain. [/li]
[li]Kings did not kowtow to the popes. In fact, several medieval popes fell afoul of the Byzantine Emperor and were deposed or killed. Moreover, Popes have never claimed to BE Christ, but to lead His people.[/li]
Moreover, Chick elides right over the Arian controversy, the Nestorians, the Monophysites, the Iconclasm controversy, the Filioque question, and several other issues that show that the medieval church was not some Vatican-orchestrated single entity.
I still want to know who Jack Chick refers to in frame 22 when he says “the real Christians . . . fled to the mountains, taking the Word of God with them.”
Jack must have seen The Name Of The Rose, the monastery pictured looks just like the one from the movie. In fact that movie must be Jack’s wet dream, its al about evil Catholics.
There’s a theory by those people who believe that the Constantine adoption of the Christianity corrupted it…Since Christianity is supposed to have existed in an unbroken line from Jesus’s time to today, and since the Catholic and Orthodox churches, having been coopted by Rome weren’t “real” Christianity, there were secret communities of Christians in Europe from Constantine to the Reformation. The Bogomils, the Waldensians, the Cathars…all of these groups were the “true Christian” groups, and when the Catholic church discovered them, it gave them each different names and claimed they were heretics, inventing beliefs for them.