Jack's Back in Black (GASP!)

Sometimes, I use this as a put-down. “You don’t know Jack Chick.” :smiley:

Hey, cut Chick a break. He’s just trying to help God avoid the inevitable products liability lawsuits brought on a failure-to-warn theory. You know, guy omits the anti-homosexual stuff, decides to be not only gay but incredibly promiscuous and stupid (like all gay people), gets AIDS (like all gay people), sues God for not warning him about editing the bible. Imagine the damages, and the drain on God’s finances! God would have to start carrying malpractice insurance.

I can see Jack just being sooooo concerned about that, up all night in worry that someone might change god’s words around out of ignorance and ruin his own life, and end up getting told by some faceless dude on a big chair to “depart ye into everlasting fire, blah, blah, blah”. After all, he’s such a kind and caring man :wink:

Jack’s not exactly a font of compassion. I suppse he means well which maybe counts for something but his message is so incredibly corrupted it defeats any possible good intention. Jack is evil but I suppose the best thing I can say is he’ll be in a different circle of hell than Fred Phelps.

I like the idea of the priests as “little Jesuses.” They’re so cute! Look, he thinks he’s Jesus! Is that even the correct pluralization of Jesus?

This is my favorite quote: “The true Church of Christ showed only love to all. Never did they harm any who opposed them.”
My irony meter exploded.

Dark Dungeons ensures Chick’s place in hilarity.

Without getting into the theology of Jack’s atest opus, I can tell you that his version of the history of the early Church is seriously flawed (I know, I was shocked, too!).

In panel 21, Bob says, “The last great emperor of Rome, Constantine, stopped the persecutions and claimed to be a Christian but he also worshipped the sun god. This shrewd politician ordered his ruthless, bloodthirsty troops to become ‘Christians’. . . so these pagans could destroy the Lord’s true church.”

In 312 AD, Constantine was fighting his brother-in-law Maxentius for control of Italy. The night before battle, supposedly, Constantine had a vision of a cross of light floating above the sun bearing the inscription, “By this sign you shall conquer.” After Constantine crushed his rival at the battle of the Milvian Bridge, he set himself up as protector of his Christian subjects. He allowed ecclesiastical courts to act as courts of appeal for civil cases, forbade the murder of slaves, and in 321 procliamed Sunday as an official day of rest. In 325, Constantine convened the council of Nicaea in order to quell the Arian heresy that taught that Christ was created by God and was not co-eternal or of one substance with Him. I’m puzzled why Chick thinks Constantine was a threat to the Church.

In frame 22, Bob says that the “real” Christians fled to the mountains, taking the word of God with them" What mountains? Where? And how could they take the Word of God (by which I assume he means the Bible) in 312 when the final canon of the Bible was set by the third Council of Carthage in 397 AD?

When the priest says, "So only the phonies stayed in Rome, " he ignores the fact that the primacy of the bishop of Rome as the head of Christendom was not generally accepted until the reign of Leo I (440-461) and that before Leo religious authority had followed the imperial power to Constantinople.

I have no idea what bob means when he says, “In Alexandria, Egypt phony Christians were rewriting the word of God.” If Bob is talking about the Greek translation of the Old Testament called the Septuagint, then he’s off by about 500 years. The Septuagint was compiled in Ptolemaic Egypt about two centuries before Christ.

In addition, Constantine was not the Pope, and the first pope with that name does not appear until the 8th century.

In frame 24, Bob paints an inaccurately bleak picture of early medieval Europe when he says, “Civilization collapsed. Life became a nightmare. Vandals plundered, raped, and destroyed Europe.” For one thing, it’s a biased Eurocentric view that ignores the rise of Islam and the flowering of Tang China. Moreover, it glosses over the fact though the Western Roman Empire ceased to exist, new nation-states arose in Europe, like the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in England and the Frankish empire in what are now France and Germany. Moreover, the Vandals were Arian Christians who had settled in Spain and then North Africa under Gaiseric. The Christian barbarian tribes from the East, like the Alani, the Goths, and the Lombards, managed to settle in and acculturate where they settled. The Huns, OTOH, were a handful, but after Attila’s death, they, too, settled down and then faded away.

I copuld go on at length, but this should at least illustrate in a crude way how Chick manages to twist history to suit his ends.

Hell, Chick has lost it. His tracts, especially Green Angels, used to be good for a hoot, but their quality has gone to Hell since he introduced Bob.

Hire Sherlock Holmes to get a clue, Jack, and dump Bob for his just reward and go back to writing tracts about rock’n’roll, inept demons, and evilution.

Oops, pardon me. Try http://members.aol.com/monsterwax/chick.html, and click on the tract entitled Angels.

I’m thinking Jesi.

Um, gobear, it was not the cross, but the Rho Chi. (It looks like a P with an X at the bottom.)

Besides, Constantine was NEVER EVER a freaking POPE. Nor did he convert to Christianity-not until he was on his death bed.

Chick is so freaking DUMB. Of course, he also doesn’t realize that most priests are well-educated. Much more so than Chick.

I continue to be in awe of Uncle Bob’s hypnotic powers. The thought “What if all this was just pure bullshit?” doesn’t even once enter the priest’s head - Bob just talks a bit and the priest’s instantly kneeling in front of him.

Hmm. One wonders whether Bob ever has the temptation to use his powers for evil.

Ahem, if you bother to read your copy of Eusebius, you will find that

Moreover the mark you refer to is called the Chi-Rho, NOT the “Rho-Chi,” after the first two letters of Christ’s name in Greek.

“Warning! Never add to, or take away from, God’s words!”

Did those words burn your lips when you spoke them, Mr Chick?

D’oh, Chi-Rho. Dammit, sorry. I’m just vaguely remembering from Western Civ I, so don’t hit me.

Huh, and Bob’s not even an altarboy.