Wow. Isn’t Jack concerned about the effect of all the stereotypical drawings of the Jews?
I wonder whether he even noticed the discepancy between all the cattle (and other large animals) being destroyed among the Egyptians in an earlier plague, and all the first-born of cattle receiving the same fate in the final plague?
Maybe the Egyptians imported a lot of cattle in a very short time. I’d hate to think that it was the cattle first-born among the Israelites that got it. Mr. Number Uno is like OOOOPS! (The elder cattle forgot to get some of the lamb’s blood on their barn doors?)
IIRC the Pharoahs army chased the Israelites on horses. This fits in with the idea of rapid importing. After all, the horses were among the other animals killed off in the earlier plague.
(Is there any historical/archeological evidence that all of this happened to the Egyptians? Having them losing most kinds of animals and all of the fields to plague would be hard for history to pass over.)
In panel 17A *, Jack tells us that Christ’s statement was the death sentence for all religions. That’s right, Christianity is not a religion.
There’s probably a lot more wrong with the tract, but I’m leaving off here. At least this time Chicky is somewhat entertaining. Good suspense development.
(The “other Jack”)
Standard panel/page numbering system includes the cover as page 1.
Looks more like “Jesus, whose eyes are like Little Orphan Annie’s”.
Anyway, these tracts are most refreshing. We just don’t get enough hell and damnation from our religions anymore, except when Romney and Huckabee are squabbling.
New Year’s Resolution #1 – Don’t forget, when starting a thread on Chick Tracts,
to show everybody where to go – OOOPS! I didn’t mean to sound like that.
Sorry guys!
To Biffy:
I think the whole idea here is that the live frogs would very soon be dead.
And other people besides JTC have read in the idea that plagues
were formulated to prove the helplessness of Egyptian deities.
Either because they didn’t really exist, or else they were real but plainly inferior
to the Hebrew one. BTW, he was originally only a local, tribal deity.
Along the same lines, some people have seen a parallel theme in the opening
verses of Genesis. The idea is that, even if there is a deity for sky, the waters,
the sun, and so forth, Numero Uno had to create them and their auspices, and
they would be as nothing in comparison to the creator of all.
Hey, Mrs. Unbeliever? Yeah, you. Moses called and wanted to remind you that he said to sacrifice a lamb—that is, a real infant sheep actually born of a ewe, not the near-microscopic fetus you appear to be holding.
For a Chick tract, this is pretty weak- none of the usual silliness or bizarre conspiracy theories. The message is good, though- God passed over those who sacrificed a lamb in accordance with His wishes, but if you don’t realize that the Lamb of God was sacrificed, you’ll be passed over. The tract could be read as a message to Jews saying “Jesus is the Messiah, accept Him. You’re already halfway there*” as he has in some of his tracts.
*“Since the Bible is the 100% true Word of God, and the Jews believe in the Old Testament (which the Jews call Matzo), that means Judiaism is 50% right.”- Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, DFA, I Am America (And So Can You!), page 56. Of course, although Dr. Colbert is a fictional pundit, I can’t help but also think of Ann Coulter’s comments about Christianity being the religious equivalent of FedEx- if you know Jesus is Lord, you’re saved.
Moses sure did grow some kickass hair after the first few plagues. Although he looks like some evil Rasputin-type character when he tells Pharaoh about the last plague, he has a well oiled man-mane. I wonder, did he use product?
Nahhh – Moses looks like Charlton Heston, as he should.
Pharaoh doesn’t look like Yul Brynner, though. With that chin, he looks more like Jay Leno. (“Hey, Kevin – How many plagues does it take to stop a Hittite?”)
