# For Easter - A new Chick tract (Haw Haw Haw!)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-easter-a-new-chick-tract-haw-haw-haw/169753>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 20, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-easter-a-new-chick-tract-haw-haw-haw/169753 "2003-04-20T02:16:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-easter-a-new-chick-tract-haw-haw-haw/169753/61 "2003-06-07T03:07:27Z")

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:rolleyes:

**His** , just because Jack Chick says something doesn’t make it so.

Just like your hateful lies about Catholicism.

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**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-easter-a-new-chick-tract-haw-haw-haw/169753/62 "2003-06-07T13:55:10Z")

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“Satan and the Roman Catholic Whore ruled the world”.

Aha! That’s why I haven’t had my share of the world’s wealth! Haven’t whored around enough!

What a moron. I just can’t believe that anybody actually reads and believes this stuff in any way, shape, or form. Has anybody actually met someone who offered them a Chick tract, or am I just in the wrong part of the country? I saw them on the counter once in a Korean deli, put the stuff I was going to buy down, turned on my heel and walked out. But that’s the only time I’ve ever seen them in the wild.

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-easter-a-new-chick-tract-haw-haw-haw/169753/63 "2003-06-07T15:09:34Z")

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> \*Originally posted by His4ever \*  
> Uh, why should anybody consult Cecil on anything? Does he know it all? Is he God or all knowing? Just cos Cecil says it’s so don’t make it so.

Yes, but what is more informative and entertaining - The Bible, or a Straight Dope book?

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**Author:** ![Equal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Equal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equal)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-easter-a-new-chick-tract-haw-haw-haw/169753/64 "2003-06-07T15:15:09Z")

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His4ever, its a joke.  
Everyone Knows Cecil doesn’t know everything, thye’re just pretending cause its cute and funny.

(its really Poundstone who knows all sees all)

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**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-easter-a-new-chick-tract-haw-haw-haw/169753/65 "2003-06-07T15:20:50Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Equal \*  
> \*\*His4ever, its a joke.  
> Everyone Knows Cecil doesn’t know everything, thye’re just pretending cause its cute and funny.
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> (its really Poundstone who knows all sees all) \*\*

A heretic, burn him!

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**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-easter-a-new-chick-tract-haw-haw-haw/169753/66 "2003-06-07T15:38:26Z")

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“The Priests as little Jesuses…”

Something about the word “Jesuses” is so cute. Come here you little Jesuses! Come here! Turn my water into wine little, Jesuses! Good Jesuses!

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**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-easter-a-new-chick-tract-haw-haw-haw/169753/67 "2003-06-07T15:42:22Z")

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I have a question for folks who hammer on the “gay is sinful” button:

Why don’t you condemn anything else? These putative “pro-family” Christian groups like the Family Research Group and Focus on the Family harass gay people and anyone who is gay positive, (ignoring the fact that gay people have families). Yet Jesus said nothing about homosexuality.

However, Jesus did address greed, saying that it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to go to heaven. Yet these groups have stayed mute on the dishonesty of companies that defraud their employees and investors, like Worldcom and Enron. They have said nothing about Bush’s taxcut that gives greater benefits to the rich than it does to the middle class or poor, despite Jesus’s teachings about being just to the poor among us. They have said nothing about the morality of starting a war under false pretenses, despite Jesus’s teachings about honesty and peacemaking.

**His4Ever** and her pals ignore everything Jesus taught in favor of hammering on one topic he said nothing about. And given the lies **His** likes to spout about gay folks (and Mormons and Catholics. . . ), she obviously chooses to ignore Biblical injunctions against bearing false witness.

As it turns out, Jesus had a few choice words to say about people like **His** , who use the Bible as a weapon to exalt themselves and oppress the innocent.

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> ```
> Mat 23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in [yourselves], neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.  
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> Mat 23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.  
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> Mat 23:15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves 
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Take the log out of your own eye, sister, before you attempt to take the splinter out of anyone else’s

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-easter-a-new-chick-tract-haw-haw-haw/169753/68 "2003-06-07T17:42:20Z")

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I’d thought **His4ever** was long gone until this thread.

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-easter-a-new-chick-tract-haw-haw-haw/169753/69 "2003-06-07T21:08:57Z")

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**His4ever** does it-because she knows we’ll call her on it, and then she can throw a little hissyfit about how “abused” she is here. It’s her standard MO. I mean, d’uh, she knows the atmosphere around here, she knows that constantly beating us over the head with GOD SAYS SO AND YOU ARE GOING TO HELL!!! is only going to get a :rolleyes: at best, but she still does it. And then goes sobbing to the Pit, saying, YOU GUYS ARE MEAN! I’M TAKING MY TOYS AND GOING HOME!!!

Leaves for three weeks, pops back up, does the SAME DAMN THING.

And it’s always about gays, fundies, Catholics, etc. It’s never about helping the poor, prayer requests, Christian love and decency.

Oh, and **His**? If you plan on responding to my post by saying something like, “Well, I guess I should expect it, after all, you guys just never listen to anything I say,” then don’t bother. It’s manipulative and it’s immature. Grow the fuck up.

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**Author:** ![lynn73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@lynn73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lynn73)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-easter-a-new-chick-tract-haw-haw-haw/169753/70 "2003-06-08T01:49:25Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Blackeyes \*  
> \*\* Too bad, he shoulda consulted [Cecil](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_074.html) on that one, _ **twenty years ago** _.  
> \*\*

Um, is there some special reason anyone should consult **Cecil** about anything? Who’s he? Is he the all wise, all knowing one of the world or something? No disrespect intended towards **Cecil** but he doesn’t know it all. I think there are plenty of people who can decide what to believe without any help from him.

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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-easter-a-new-chick-tract-haw-haw-haw/169753/71 "2003-06-08T01:52:17Z")

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Or facts, or reputable references, or current dictionaries…you know, all those nifty things Cecil and others like to use to support their assertions.

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**Author:** ![lynn73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@lynn73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lynn73)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-easter-a-new-chick-tract-haw-haw-haw/169753/72 "2003-06-08T01:53:36Z")

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Uh Oh, sorry!!!

Last time I was here I tried to post and didn’t think it went through. So I tried again. My apologies for the double post.  
I can’t delete it so just pretend the second one isn’t there.

To **Guinastasia** :

:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![lynn73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@lynn73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lynn73)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-easter-a-new-chick-tract-haw-haw-haw/169753/73 "2003-06-08T01:56:02Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Monty \*  
> \*\*Or facts, or reputable references, or current dictionaries…you know, all those nifty things Cecil and others like to use to support their assertions. \*\*

Oh yes, let us bow down before the irrefutable **Cecil** and the wonderful SDMB members. Your opinion and other people’s opinion on what is a reputable reference may differ greatly. Of course, your’e always right though and so is **Cecil**.

Give me a break! :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-easter-a-new-chick-tract-haw-haw-haw/169753/74 "2003-06-08T01:58:17Z")

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**His** , this is a board that is DEDICATED to Cecil Adams and the Straight Dope column. That’s the whole freaking POINT of the damn board!

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**Author:** ![lynn73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@lynn73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lynn73)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-easter-a-new-chick-tract-haw-haw-haw/169753/75 "2003-06-08T01:58:51Z")

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You guys are so cute and funny! 😉  
Love ya…see ya later.

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-easter-a-new-chick-tract-haw-haw-haw/169753/76 "2003-06-08T02:02:11Z")

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Is she _gone_ now? Want to bet she’s watching this thread still though, just dying to have the last word?

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-easter-a-new-chick-tract-haw-haw-haw/169753/77 "2003-06-08T02:04:09Z")

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_sigh_ Whatever. You know, I don’t think she’s a BAD person, but just a stubborn one. Seriously. I don’t hate her, either. But I feel sorry for her.

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**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-easter-a-new-chick-tract-haw-haw-haw/169753/78 "2003-06-08T02:10:16Z")

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> Is she gone now?

One of the defining characteristics of samsara is that it’s not something that up and leaves.

The overuse of the rolleyes is actually fairly apropos–eyes moving dramatically away, only to return. Cycles upon cycles, driven by suffering.

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> Love ya.

I suggest that, if one places any agreement with the formulation that the Word _is_ Love–even if only in part, even if it is also vengeance and judgment and casting-forth and all those other apparently titillating things–that one should take pains not to utter it in vain.

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**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-easter-a-new-chick-tract-haw-haw-haw/169753/79 "2003-06-08T02:20:43Z")

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Jesus Farking Christ, people. I say this as a not-particularly-devout-Episcopalian.

Do you really have to rise to the bait for every sock-puppet that comes along?

Are you so concerned with **His-4-Ever** that you have to pop up and attack her in a resurrected thread that (justly) died months ago.

Honestly, whatever sock dragged this up was just trying to start something.

Yes, **His** has built her entire life around what she has been told about the contents of a certain book. She hasn’t read it, but she knows what’s in there. Because her Preacher told her, or her friends told her, or whatever.

Fine. We’ve DONE THIS. It’s over with her. We can’t make a scrape in her ignorance, let alone a dent.

And we’ve chased her away. Many times.

That’s not Christian action. Not my way, anyway. I prefer to engage people in rational discussion instead of flinging insults about.

But you “highly rational” people, so full of wrath and “justice” decide to resurrect a pogrom because a sock-puppet made one post.

I thought better of the lot of you.

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**Author:** ![lynn73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@lynn73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lynn73)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-easter-a-new-chick-tract-haw-haw-haw/169753/80 "2003-06-08T02:27:58Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Exgineer \*  
> \*\* She hasn’t read it, but she knows what’s in there. Because her Preacher told her, or her friends told her, or whatever.  
> \*\*

Before I leave the board for the evening, I must refute this falsehood. I **have** read the Book for myself. I know what’s there because I’ve seen it, **not** just what someone else has told me, thank you very much. You don’t know me enough to make a false statement like this.

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