# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/41 "2005-02-21T06:02:40Z")
> [@Antigen](#): > > People actually exist who think this way? > > ☹ Yes. I had a runin with one of them in a comics IRC channel a couple days ago. He came in, asked about Chick’s tracts, I commented about how ignorant they were, and…well, he certainly disagreed with me on that point. Then he was ignored until he left. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/42 "2005-02-21T12:15:02Z")
> [@Scarface Z](#): > > “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. The first tract isn’t a Chick tract. The second one is. Only through CHICK tracks can you spread the word of God and get a berth in heaven. ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/43 "2005-02-21T13:43:59Z")
> [@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. Good old Jack has some [tips](http://www.chick.com/tracttips/) on how to litter with his tracts. He calls it witnessing. Also in Fort Worth, I see them occasionally. We found two of them here in my store the other day, in spanish of all things (odd only because we have almost zero spanish speaking customers). I have a pretty open policy about what kind of flyers/literature people can leave around. People donate books and magazines all the time. Those I threw away. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/44 "2005-02-22T04:12:36Z")
> [@Freddy the Pig](#): > > Wow. I guess it’s more of a red-state thing. Not really. I used to find them left on bus seats in San Francisco. And around where I live (uber-liberal Marin County, California) there’s someone who goes around taping Jesus-sodden anti-abortion tracts to lamp posts. I saved one that features the doctor from the “Eye of the Beholder” episode of _Twilight Zone_ with “baby-killing abortion doctor” written repeatedly all the way around the border. Crazy knows no geographical boundaries. ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/45 "2005-02-22T20:07:53Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Not really. I used to find them left on bus seats in San Francisco. And around where I live (uber-liberal Marin County, California) there’s someone who goes around taping Jesus-sodden anti-abortion tracts to lamp posts. … Crazy knows no geographical boundaries. I talked my husband into picking them up for me when he’s on the road. All seven he’s brought home were in different truckstops in Southern California. I have both a “Bob” and a “Little Suzie”. ---
**Author:** ![audiobottle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/46 "2005-02-22T20:22:59Z")
> [@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”. Actually, this image kind of gives me some comfort. If, for some reason, I do end up in Hell, at least there’s a long line (billions upon billions!) before I get thrown in. And as other’s have pointed out, apparently I get to keep my stuff with me while I’m waiting! Seriously, you’d think Satan would splurge a little and hire a team of angels to move things along a little. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/47 "2005-02-22T21:12:48Z")
He has a pretty funny [Evolution poster](http://www.chick.com/catalog/posters/lrgposter.asp) that he hawks and claims exposes the “truth” about evolution. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/48 "2005-02-22T22:37:46Z")
All of you mockers are damned to Hel. Why you ask? Because you refuse to aknowledge the Sovereignty of Odin, the All Father, who so loved knowledge that he sacrificed himself to himself, in order that mankind, (and himself) might have eighteen magical runes. To read more, see: > **[Odin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin)** > > Odin (/ˈoʊdɪn/; from Old Norse: Óðinn, IPA: \[ˈoːðenː\]) is a widely revered god in Germanic mythology. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, generally portrays Odin as king of the gods\[citation needed\] and associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet, and depicts him as the husband of the goddess Frigg. In wider Germanic mythology and paganism, the god was known i 😃 hehehe ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/49 "2005-02-23T04:30:20Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > He has a pretty funny [Evolution poster](http://www.chick.com/catalog/posters/lrgposter.asp) that he hawks and claims exposes the “truth” about evolution. Is it just me or is this poster anti-semitic? I’m not going to say what I think is anti-semitic about it. I want to see if anybody else notices it, besides me. Maybe I am applying my own prejudice? …It sure reminds me of some Nazi propaganda I’ve seen before. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/50 "2005-02-23T13:32:49Z")
Well, I didn’t think that is looks anti-semetic, just stupid, they are clinging to a straw man. It claims that scientists cling to old theories, like letches, refusing to change, and furthermore, they put the same energy into worshiping their ancestors that these people put into making and promoting their strawmen. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/51 "2005-02-23T14:44:59Z")
Definitely. It shows the true difference between science and Creationist dogma. Piltdown man was a hoax. It has been admitted to be a hox and so is no longer discussed as part of hominid evolution. Science studies tests and jetisons those ideas and therories that are flat out wrong. If the data doesn’t support the theory the Theory is altered to explain the data. If the Data is wrong it too is retested and then thrown out if still in error. Dogmatics, like those Creationist idiots, find conflicting data and try to rejigger the data so it fits the original idea. In their world view the Bible is 100% correct or 100% wrong. If one part of the bible is wrong then they believe the whole thing must be. They think Science (or sane people) think the same way about their studies. They have a fool notion that if you attack one part of the theory the whole thing collapses like a house of cards. ---
**Author:** ![Sweetums](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Sweetums](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweetums)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/52 "2005-02-23T14:49:08Z")
> [@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. Volunteer to do some shelving at your local library. Chickites like to leave them in the stacks, or shove them into books that they return. Indeed, I just had one of our pages find one Monday. ``` I encountered my first chick tract when I was a lad at Catholic school. Someone had scattered them all over the playground for us to find when we went out to continue our ongoing soccer game. I have also had someone try to give me one in the men's room at Walmart (no, I dont shop there, I just piss there). I said something to the effect of "no thanks, I don't need to wipe." ``` ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/53 "2005-02-23T15:07:55Z")
> [@Sweetums](#): > > I said something to the effect of “no thanks, I don’t need to wipe.” heheheheeheehehehee Scott wanders off, still laughing. ---
**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 23, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/54 "2005-02-23T19:52:47Z")
Anti-semitic? Are you refering to the Heidelberg man? Unless you think one of them looks Jewish. For that matter, do you think the Peking man looks Chinese? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/55 "2005-02-26T09:08:28Z")
> [@Scarface Z](#): > > Anti-semitic? Are you refering to the Heidelberg man? Unless you think one of them looks Jewish. For that matter, do you think the Peking man looks Chinese? 😕 I think the Modern Man looks like Chick’s Jewish characters. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/56 "2006-06-27T22:55:08Z")
Both versions of Embrace Me (Love of Death) are going on my playlist! ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/57 "2006-06-27T23:02:09Z")
You’ve got to love “Dark Dungeons” [Chick.com: Dark Dungeons](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp) And my personal favorite “The Death Cookie” [Chick.com: Death Cookie, The](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0074/0074_01.asp) And who can resist “The Gay Blade” [Chick.com: Gay Blade, The](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0084/0084_01.asp) ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/58 "2006-06-27T23:10:45Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Seriously, can somebody point to any significant difference between Chick’s version of God and, say, Adolf Eichmann? [QUOTE=Derleth] Eichmann eventually died and stopped killing people. [/QUOTE] Ooh, me too! Um…Eichmann was forthright about his hatred for Jews? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/59 "2006-06-27T23:19:10Z")
Fools and Blasphemers! Where is your mockery now, as this thread returns to earth in a cloud of glory! ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810/60 "2006-06-27T23:20:08Z")
[QUOTE=devilsknew] Is it just me or is this poster anti-semitic? I’m not going to say what I think is anti-semitic about it. I want to see if anybody else notices it, besides me. Maybe I am applying my own prejudice? …It sure reminds me of some Nazi propaganda I’ve seen before. [/QUOTE] I don’t see anti-semitism, but I notice that Peking man seems to have epicanthic folds. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-now-in-666-technicolor/290810.md?page=4)