# Jack Chick... now in 666 Technicolor! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 18, 2005, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810 "2005-02-18T22:40:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/21 "2005-02-19T17:05:32Z")
> [@](#): > > Is the above an attempt to make a phalanx emoticon or something? No, it says (transliterated) “proshchanie, tovarishch” – “Farewell, comrade!”. ---
**Author:** ![beergeek279](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@beergeek279](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beergeek279)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/22 "2005-02-19T18:33:13Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > And even for him his new pamphlets are particularly psycho. > > [Little girl saved from Muslim white slavery ring by O.J. Simpson’s Police Squad character](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1020/1020_01.asp) Now Jack Chick’s ripping off Stan Lee, cause Jesus looks like The Thing in that cartoon!!! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/23 "2005-02-19T23:13:55Z")
I think [this](http://www.chick.com/catalog/videos/images/fire.gif) image needs a caption; the angel should be saying “Man, this is some fucked-up shit! - we should _ **not** _ have to do this”. Seriously, can somebody point to any significant difference between Chick’s version of God and, say, Adolf Eichmann? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/24 "2005-02-20T00:50:48Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I think [this](http://www.chick.com/catalog/videos/images/fire.gif) image needs a caption; the angel should be saying “Man, this is some fucked-up shit! - we should _ **not** _ have to do this”. Or you can put a positive spin on it: “Come here, little one… come to Daddy!” ---
**Author:** ![Scarface\_Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Scarface\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarface_Z)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/25 "2005-02-20T02:50:07Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I think [this](http://www.chick.com/catalog/videos/images/fire.gif) image needs a caption; the angel should be saying “Man, this is some fucked-up shit! - we should _ **not** _ have to do this”. I would prefer the caption “self-portrait”. Couldn’t resist! ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/26 "2005-02-20T18:32:11Z")
> [@LilyoftheValley](#): > > Don’t forget nuns, Mormons (white shirted guys on bicycles, anyway), ballerinas, hula dancers, surfers, gay men, construction workers in hard hats, and Mexicans who wear serapes! Don’t forget Shaquille O’Neal. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/27 "2005-02-20T21:11:02Z")
OK, how about (as a caption): **Condemned Sinner:** Aiieeeee! \*\*Angel: \*\*Don’t blame me, I’m just following orders. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/28 "2005-02-20T23:06:32Z")
I notice there was a surfer dude with his board waiting in line in the bowels of hell. I wonder if he got to keep it. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/29 "2005-02-20T23:17:49Z")
I see Jack has discovered the “Ken Burns Effects” checkbox in iMovie. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/30 "2005-02-21T00:06:24Z")
> [@Scarface Z](#): > > I would prefer the caption “self-portrait”. > > Couldn’t resist! So who´s Jack? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/31 "2005-02-21T00:18:10Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Seriously, can somebody point to any significant difference between Chick’s version of God and, say, Adolf Eichmann? Eichmann eventually died and stopped killing people. ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/32 "2005-02-21T02:45:44Z")
For God so loved the world that he sent (himself as) his only begotten son to die (impossible because he is immortal) as a warning to all the billions that Jack Chick sees being committed to eternal fire. The basis of Chick’s religion, apart from his relish of the idea of billions of people becoming giant pork rinds, is a fraud. ---
**Author:** ![Scarface\_Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Scarface\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarface_Z)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/33 "2005-02-21T03:32:07Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > So who´s Jack? In my mind, the guy about to burn. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/34 "2005-02-21T03:36:54Z")
Can someone please explain to me, what is the distribution system for these Jack Chick tracts? The only time I ever see them is when people on this Board post links to the online versions. I assume that they must exist in hard copy _somewhere_. But where? I work on the streets of downtown Chicago, where people are handing stuff out all the time, and I’ve never once in my life been handed a Jack Chick tract. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/35 "2005-02-21T04:20:00Z")
> [@Freddy the Pig](#): > > Can someone please explain to me, what is the distribution system for these Jack Chick tracts? The only time I ever see them is when people on this Board post links to the online versions. I assume that they must exist in hard copy _somewhere_. But where? I work on the streets of downtown Chicago, where people are handing stuff out all the time, and I’ve never once in my life been handed a Jack Chick tract. I live in Fort Worth, Texas, and I’ve lived in (among other places) Biloxi, Mississippi. I’ve seen these tracts handed out for Trick or Treaters on Halloween (Chick has a few that he recommends for this purpose), I’ve seen a stack of them left in ladies’ rooms on the counter, I’ve heard food servers bitch about getting a tract instead of a tip (can’t blame them for bitching, tracts won’t pay the rent), and I’ve seen them generally scattered in public areas. Good old Jack has some [tips](http://www.chick.com/tracttips/) on how to litter with his tracts. He calls it witnessing. ---
**Author:** ![Scarface\_Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Scarface\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarface_Z)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/36 "2005-02-21T04:21:35Z")
> [@Freddy the Pig](#): > > Can someone please explain to me, what is the distribution system for these Jack Chick tracts? Have you read this? [Who, Me?](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0900/0900_01.asp) It pretty much explains the whole premise behind the tracts, and manages to scare the hell out me. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/37 "2005-02-21T04:39:49Z")
> [@Lynn Bodoni](#): > > I live in Fort Worth, Texas, and I’ve lived in (among other places) Biloxi, Mississippi. I’ve seen these tracts handed out for Trick or Treaters on Halloween (Chick has a few that he recommends for this purpose), I’ve seen a stack of them left in ladies’ rooms on the counter, I’ve heard food servers bitch about getting a tract instead of a tip (can’t blame them for bitching, tracts won’t pay the rent), and I’ve seen them generally scattered in public areas. Wow. I guess it’s more of a red-state thing. > [@Scarface Z](#): > > Have you read this? It pretty much explains the whole premise behind the tracts, and manages to scare the hell out me. The scariest thing about it was that it implies that 11% of Christians _have_ passed out a Gospel tract! ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/38 "2005-02-21T04:40:34Z")
> [@](#): > > It pretty much explains the whole premise behind the tracts, and manages to scare the hell out me. They’re… oddly exuberant (and, for that matter, forthcoming) that they (supposedly) took their “witnessing” method from “communist China.” ---
**Author:** ![Scarface\_Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Scarface\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarface_Z)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/39 "2005-02-21T05:10:33Z")
Yes, the fact that they brag about stealing their propaganda techniques from communist China is very scary. However, what i find the most disturbing is that the tract contradicts itself. Read, what is it, panel 7 or so and then read panel 17 & 18. ---
**Author:** ![Scarface\_Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Scarface\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarface_Z)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/40 "2005-02-21T05:18:14Z")
“What if they find a tract and start to read it?” They will not read/care. Therefore, leave a tract in the phone booth, restroom, etc. to convert people. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810.md?page=3)