Does anyone know what Jack Chick says about divorce? A scan of his site (shudder) didn’t reveal much to me. I’d check it out further myself, but I’m a sensitive guy. I deal with murderers and thieves much more readily than I deal with looking at Chick tracts.
I’m still trying to gather data in this thread, which is why I ask.
I don’t see anything offhand, either. Looks to me like it’s just a “trauma”, not a “sin”.
http://www.chick.com/seasonal/halloween/halloweenletter.asp
In some of the other tracts, like Bewitched, divorce is one of Satan’s weapons that he uses on the way to damning people through drugs or witchcraft, but it’s not specifically “divorce” that’s sending them to Hell in a handbasket. (“Ashley’s” parents divorced when she was 7, and it’s clear that this put her at risk for Eternal Damnation through drugs and Ouija boards.)
On his Search page, I see that in the pull-down menu he features such issues as Abortion, Homosexuality, Hinduism, rock music, and Foreign Language Literature, which besides the tracts in German and Spanish now includes the jaw-droppingly awesome tract for Native Americans (it’s the all-pictures children’s tract, “since many of them are only semiliterate”, reworked slightly to include Injuns wearing Tonto headbands and Mohawk hairdos)–anyway, both Marriage and “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” are conspicuous by their absence. And it’s not because he himself is divorced (my first thought–I’m such a cynic), as his wife of 50 years just died in 1998.
It’s entirely possible that Mr. Tunnel Vision has simply never realized that it might be an issue for some people, what with him having found his life partner at an early age, and apparently being perfectly satisfied with his choice. Like, “Well, I’m happy, isn’t everybody happy?”
If I can insert an opinionated, fairly cynical comment into GQ:
It’s not talked about by Chick and his ilk because it’s a “sin” (possibly) which they wish to reserve for themselves to indulge in, like wearing cotton-poly blends and women being allowed to speak in church and braid their hair, etc.
Divorce is just too common in fundie circles to be condemned as a bigtime sin. If they treated divorced people like they treat the homos, they’d have empty churches every Sunday. Simple as that.
Sorry, just my nasty opinion - I promise not to do this in GQ on a regular basis. (I was following that other thread as well.)
And…the reason why you couldn’t post this cynical, admittedly inappropriate comment over in the Great Debates thread was…?
I promise that you will do it exactly once more.
Capice?
I’m sorry.
Yes, I capice.
In explanation, and hoping I haven’t killed this thread …
I’ve wasted bitter hours reading thru Chick’s stuff. I’m very familiar with most of what he has to say. And it amazes me that he just doesn’t have much to say on divorce. Amazes me so much, that I remarked as I did above. Wrong forum for it, of course. I didn’t think the comment was appropriate for the other thread, either.
Wow, masonite, what led you to read all that Chick stuff?
I do appreciate the input from you and DDG who have actually taken on the task of reviewing his tracts.
Obviously, it will damn you to Hell for all eternity.
Because in Chick’s universe, everything (except going to Jack’s Church) will damn you to Hell for all eternity.
You know, if somebody pointed this out to him, he could save lots of time & paper by putting out just one version of all his views in a single tract…
Nah.
Saving paper will damn you to Hell for all eternity. 
Qadgop, I grew up on the stuff. We actually had it in the house. (I thought I was going to hell because I watched “Bewitched”.) Some parts of my family, while not being specifically into Chick anymore, would still agree with most of what he says, even some of the wacky conspiracy stuff. I had to research it.
By the way, I’d like to apologize personally to you for farting in your thread above. I realize now that the very purpose of posting in GQ rather than elsewhere is to avoid such comments. 'Twon’t happen again.
No worries, masonite