# Jack Chick has lost his mind. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 15, 2000, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-lost-his-mind/33280 "2000-09-15T04:42:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-lost-his-mind/33280/1 "2000-09-15T04:42:43Z")
[Death Cookie.](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0074/0074_01.asp). I knew he wasn’t too hip to Catholics (or Jews, Blacks, Gays, Bikers, People Who Like to have Fun, etc…) but this is much more venomous than usual. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-lost-his-mind/33280/2 "2000-09-15T05:23:17Z")
I don’t suppose the title of this thread is exactly a news flash, is it? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-lost-his-mind/33280/3 "2000-09-15T05:25:54Z")
Not exactly a light debate or a list, but with a little _presto chango!_… Okay everyone, which is your favorite Chick Tract? If you haven’t heard of Jack Chick and his infamous tracts, go to the link provided above, or the many others sure to follow. ---
**Author:** ![mazirian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@mazirian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mazirian)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-lost-his-mind/33280/4 "2000-09-15T05:31:01Z")
Again? ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-lost-his-mind/33280/5 "2000-09-15T08:57:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MEBuckner \* > \*\*I don’t suppose the title of this thread is exactly a news flash, is it? \*\* It does rather presuppose that Chick had a mind to begin with. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-lost-his-mind/33280/6 "2000-09-15T11:08:10Z")
Dang. Before I checked the link, I thought this was about those little tracking thingys they put on your computer to show where you’ve been on the 'Net… We now return you to your regularly scheduled posting. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-lost-his-mind/33280/7 "2000-09-15T12:22:21Z")
Is there any evidence whatsoever that Egyptian religion included a rite in which wafers on altars were supposedly turned into the flesh of Osiris? ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-lost-his-mind/33280/8 "2000-09-15T12:41:03Z")
Any Chickopiles or Chickophobes among the Teeming Milliions may be amused by the links at this site: [http://home.flash.net/~twinkle/psycho/DARK/chick/links.html](http://home.flash.net/~twinkle/psycho/DARK/chick/links.html) Again, I apologize for my ignorance of proper prettying-up of URLs. ---
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-lost-his-mind/33280/9 "2000-09-15T15:08:41Z")
I guess I’m a bit confused- I posted here because I thought that it was IMHO that he had lost his mind- guess it’s a fact. As for all-time favorites, [Bad Bob](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0021/0021_01.asp) is up there with [Big Daddy](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0055/0055_01.asp). ---
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-lost-his-mind/33280/10 "2000-09-15T15:12:26Z")
Hmmmm… It combined both my links into one as well as the text in-between. As far as I can tell the UBBcode I used looks OK. [Big Daddy](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0055/0055_01.asp) [Bad Bob](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0021/0021_01.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-lost-his-mind/33280/11 "2000-09-15T15:16:06Z")
Ack- I’m royally screwing up this thread. Can you not do back to back {url=link}{/url} tags (substitute the correct brackets)? [http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0021/0021\_01.asp](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0021/0021_01.asp) [http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0055/0055\_01.asp](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0055/0055_01.asp) ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-lost-his-mind/33280/12 "2000-09-15T15:32:26Z")
It has to be [ur\*\*\*\*l=“link”]link[/\*\*\*\*url] ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-lost-his-mind/33280/13 "2000-09-15T16:01:12Z")
What’s really scary is the fourth panel down on the left. It looks like the cat is having it’s way with him, if you know what I mean. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-lost-his-mind/33280/14 "2000-09-15T17:17:58Z")
Since when does **anathema** mean to be put to death? Chick says that twice in “Death Cookie”. My dictionary defines it as: > [@](#): > > 1 a : one that is cursed by ecclesiastical authority b : someone or something intensely disliked or loathed – usually used as a predicate nominative \ > 2 a : a ban or curse solemnly pronounced by ecclesiastical authority and accompanied by excommunication b : the denunciation of something as accursed c : a vigorous denunciation : CURSE © Merriam Webster all rights reserved etc. etc. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-lost-his-mind/33280/15 "2000-09-15T18:35:55Z")
As a former player of fantasy role-playing games, my favorite Chick Tract has got to be [Dark Dungeons](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp). Remember, kiddies, all D&D players secretly practice _real_ magic! (Though I’ve gotta admit, that “Big Daddy” tract sure had me in stitches when the protagonist said, “Gluons have never been seen, so therefore they don’t exist, so therefore Jesus holds the protons in a nucleus together.” ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-lost-his-mind/33280/16 "2000-09-15T21:38:51Z")
Bad Bob is my husband! Well, when he’s dressed in biker leather he resembles him, anyway. I love Chick Tracts, especially getting them in person. I never fail to get a good laugh out of them (just like the Weekly World News) My favorite is “That Crazy Guy!” [http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0090/0090\_01.asp](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0090/0090_01.asp) Zette ---
**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:** [September 15, 2000, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-lost-his-mind/33280/17 "2000-09-15T23:46:09Z")
I kept thinking Chick was a parody himself…like Landover. NO one could be that stupid… But apparently, someone is… _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2000, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-lost-his-mind/33280/18 "2000-09-16T01:47:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zette \* > I love Chick Tracts, especially getting them in person. I never fail to get a good laugh out of them (just like the Weekly World News) You know, when I read this the first time, I read it as “especially getting them in _prison_” and wondered what Zette hasn’t been telling us. But it also gave me an idea. Who’s seen the TN\*hippie threads? ::evil grin:: ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2000, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-lost-his-mind/33280/19 "2000-09-16T02:14:59Z")
I have a book(several years old) called High Weirdness by Mail. It came out just before the explosion of the net, and it has addresses and descriptions of all sorts of fringe groups. The author was a guy named Ivan Stang. He includes Chick Publications. The author probably won’t mind my quoting part of his description, quote “Learn to HATE for God. These are those tiny, rectangular “Christian” comic books that grinning zombies hand you on the street–the ones with atrpcious art and an almost prehuman level of sheer unbridled hate” There is more but you get the idea. But if you think this guy is bad you should check out Fred Phelps’ anti-gay site. Actually, anti-gay doesn’t even begin to describe it. And I am ashamed to admit it is based right here in my own home town, Topeka Kansas. If you want your weirdness threshold seriously ruptured look at [http://www.godhatesfags.com](http://www.godhatesfags.com) Sorry, guess I shouldn’t put in an ad for the creep, but I couldn’t help myself. Maybe the more folks see how awful his attitude, like Jack Chick, the more folks will turn him off. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2000, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-lost-his-mind/33280/20 "2000-09-16T02:35:12Z")
Kat…you are SO EVIL…I LOVE THAT!! Zette (stockpiling Chick tracts for Tn) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-lost-his-mind/33280.md?page=2)