I dunno, it seems like you could almost write a Chick tract on Chick, one of the “X is actually Satan” type ones. For example, this tract seems to give just enough information to the heathens to disqualify them from the “Ignorant heathens who never heard of Jesus” free pass without giving any compelling reason to listen to the word. On the other hand, I suspect that Chick dosen’t believe in the Ignorant Heathens Pass, so maybe that isn’t a concern of his.
Most likely, he figues that he’s got the gift of tounges and it really doesn’t matter what is on that paper–the Holy Spirit will do the work whenever a Worthy Heathen happens to pick it up. 9Which, of course, begsthe question of why the Holy Spirit couldn’t do his work therough, say, a leaf.)
Does anyone else find it ironic that in these tracts conversion of someone to Christianity is imeadiately followed by horrible tragedy that kills everyone involved? Except the missionary guy who presumably goes on to destroy other “heathen” races.
The message I got from it is “we are all doing fine, this guy shows up and explains Christianity, someone converts and we all get killed in some horrible fashion.”
I don’t think he does. Certainly the Bible Answer Man doesn’t: he says that Christ, the Virgin Birth and the Sacrifice is “self evident” and that any moron can see the evidence written in the stars, the earth, the trees, the rocks, etc. Per the Bible Answer Man, it’s possible to be placed in Plato’s shadow cave from birth, have no contact with the outside world and still deduce the whole Christ story. Per the Bible Answer Man (who’s sort of a mild-mannered Jack Chick), if the “Ignorant Heathen” pass exists, the best thing to do would be to destroy every copy of the bible and kill anyone who passes on Christian teachings 'cause that way, within a couple of generations, we’d all be Ignorant Heathens and would all get to Heaven under their free pass.
I think Chick’s problem with it is that the whole “virtuous pagans” thing was in Dante, and Dante was a Catholic and, well…those people are almost as bad as Mormons.
I think the funniest thing is Christ jumping off the cloud with the little black line indicating that he, indeed, is jumping. It just looks so… plonk-sound-effect-needing!
White Guy tells his story, the three people bathe in the blood that flows from their thought bubbles. White Guy shakes hands and heads out.
Man with Knife tells White Guy to hurry up and flee the village, since there’s a storm a’brewin’ and he needs to get to work cutting wood to cover the windows.
The storm blows in, kills everybody in town (except White Guy, since Man with Knife kindly told him not to stick around), and the only person who goes to the sauna is the person who decides that it’s Miller time (not that all his hard work did any good, but hey, at least he tried something instead of standing around staring at the trees).
Also - why does the crowd listening to White Guy go from an entire village at the start to a mere three people at the end? My guess is that they saw the storm coming and left even earlier, leaving only a)White Guy, b)the crimson showerers, and c)Man with Knife, who stayed to save his home and warn the visitor.
Last point: did anyone else hear the “Six-Million Dollar Man” sound when seeing the picture of the baby morphing to DressMan?
I’m still puzzled by the efficiency of the “sit down” hand gesture. Nobody wants to listen to him, so he asks the shaman what to do, and the shaman says “try using the sit down hand gesture”, so he does, and it works to perfection!! Remind me to try that the next time I’m confronted by an angry mob of Godless savages.
I also like the angry-devil-shaking-his-fists trick in frame 26 of the Haiti one - totally reminded me of when Bart the Fly pretended to be stuck in the spider’s web and the spider shook his eight fists at him as he flew away…
No, the funniest thing about it (IMHO) is that on page “13” , if you follow where the eyes of the guy talking go, well, they seem to be looking right up the butt of the bowing to Satan guy in the talk balloon.
My word, that was hilarious. But what the hell kind of pose is SmokeGuy doing on page 11? He looks like a really bad gameshow hostess: cross turns slowly though 360° “And here we have a breathtaking example of a solid MDF cross with a painstakingly hand-finished pine veneer; it could be yours if you get the next question right!”
On page 7 where he’s surrounded by the manic spear-throwing, he is looking kind of cool. “Hey SmokeGuy, you’re looking good; have you been working out?”