# Let's Fly Away-- 1 Day Early! Jan. '13 Chick Tract! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 31, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fly-away-1-day-early-jan-13-chick-tract/645703 "2012-12-31T19:39:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fly-away-1-day-early-jan-13-chick-tract/645703/21 "2013-01-02T03:42:11Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > I’ve read a lot of JTC tracts, but somehow [The Last Generation](http://chick.com/reading/tracts/0094/0094_01.asp) escaped me. I wouldn’t even know how to begin to deride the thing since it does it so perfectly all by itself while increasing in lunacy with every panel. Just as I thought, “how can this get anymore laughably ludicrous?” I’d reach a panel with the Nazi kid holding out obnoxiously cute photos of a puppy or kitten with a ball of yarn to sacrifice on Halloween; the pointy, insanely ridiculous outfit of CAPTAIN HEALER!; or the suggestion to use the dad for food after they kill him. > > One world government, witches, New Age Naziesque forces, “free drugs”, microchips to increase the pain, the Healers (my personal favorite), child nazis, torture chambers powered by 1950s technology, Christian genocide, hammy characters and a convenient rapture at the end. This one really has it all, slathered all over with WTF. > > I’ve been witness a lot of crazy, but _this_… holy fucking shit. The only way I can even begin to describe that oddity–_writing_ is too charitable–is that Chick took a deck of cards with each card having one panel from any of his previous crud and simply shuffled the cards, then dealt out a new tract. That was some seriously bizarre insanity he published there. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fly-away-1-day-early-jan-13-chick-tract/645703/22 "2013-01-02T04:12:48Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > The only way I can even begin to describe that oddity–_writing_ is too charitable–is that Chick took a deck of cards with each card having one panel from any of his previous crud and simply shuffled the cards, then dealt out a new tract. That was some seriously bizarre insanity he published there. Yeah, yeah, right. We all know about **your** Satanic bias! Chick [tells the whole truth about the Mormons!](http://media.chick.com/digital-comics/0118/0118_6.html)😃 ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fly-away-1-day-early-jan-13-chick-tract/645703/23 "2013-01-02T08:26:04Z")
I also love how the dad in TLG is just tickled pink at the thought of him and his family being tortured and executed. To quote Panel 6: Dad: Persecution, new killer diseases, earthquakes and war all over… This could be The Last Generation! Son-in-law: Really? Dad: That’s why I’m so excited! … What an asshole. Also, the dig at the RCC by seating the OWG in Rome. This is truly primo Chick. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fly-away-1-day-early-jan-13-chick-tract/645703/24 "2013-01-02T08:36:15Z")
Soylent green is made of Christians! ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fly-away-1-day-early-jan-13-chick-tract/645703/25 "2013-01-02T10:01:55Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > No accident. [Chick](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Chick) was born in 1924; the '40s would have been his formative youth. > > BTW, check out [this documentary](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzVFO_0Xb0w) on YouTube – “God’s Cartoonist: The Comic Crusade of Jack Chick.” Okay. I watched some of it and am waiting of the video to finish loading so I can watch the entire thing. Now, we all know Chick’s a lying sack of whatever and that brings a couple of questions to my mind already from what little of the video I’ve seen already. First, what’s with the bit about somebody trying to assassinate the guy? I really don’t recall that. Second, he says he was in combat in Okinawa during World War II. Does anyone reputable recall seeing the guy there? > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Yeah, yeah, right. We all know about **your** Satanic bias! Chick [tells the whole truth about the Mormons!](http://media.chick.com/digital-comics/0118/0118_6.html)😃 Shhhhh! Don’t tell everyone! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fly-away-1-day-early-jan-13-chick-tract/645703/26 "2013-01-02T18:31:59Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Okay. I watched some of it and am waiting of the video to finish loading so I can watch the entire thing. Now, we all know Chick’s a lying sack of whatever and that brings a couple of questions to my mind already from what little of the video I’ve seen already. First, what’s with the bit about somebody trying to assassinate the guy? I really don’t recall that. Second, he says he was in combat in Okinawa during World War II. Does anyone reputable recall seeing the guy there? I dunno, but I doubt he’s lying. If you pay any attention to the documentary, you’ll find everybody agrees that this is a guy who cares **nothing** for his personal reputation. He shuns the spotlight, he won’t be interviewed or photographed, and he didn’t even want to call his company “Chick Publications,” that decision was made for him. No self-aggrandizer – it’s not about him, it’s about his message. As for assassination attempts, well, I didn’t say he’s free of paranoid delusions. In fact, I doubt he **ever** lies, even when he tells falsehoods – he’s more the type who is so gullible and so crazy that he can make shit up and sincerely believe it. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fly-away-1-day-early-jan-13-chick-tract/645703/27 "2013-01-02T19:14:02Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > I’ve read a lot of JTC tracts, but somehow [The Last Generation](http://chick.com/reading/tracts/0094/0094_01.asp) escaped me. I wouldn’t even know how to begin to deride the thing since it does it so perfectly all by itself while increasing in lunacy with every panel. Just as I thought, “how can this get anymore laughably ludicrous?” I’d reach a panel with the Nazi kid holding out obnoxiously cute photos of a puppy or kitten with a ball of yarn to sacrifice on Halloween; the pointy, insanely ridiculous outfit of CAPTAIN HEALER!; or the suggestion to use the dad for food after they kill him. > > One world government, witches, New Age Naziesque forces, “free drugs”, microchips to increase the pain, the Healers (my personal favorite), child nazis, torture chambers powered by 1950s technology, Christian genocide, hammy characters and a convenient rapture at the end. This one really has it all, slathered all over with WTF. > > I’ve been witness a lot of crazy, but _this_… holy fucking shit. Unfortunately for me, The Last Generation was the first Chick Tract I’d read. Nothing ever came close again. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fly-away-1-day-early-jan-13-chick-tract/645703/28 "2013-01-02T19:24:20Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Unfortunately for me, The Last Generation was the first Chick Tract I’d read. Nothing ever came close again. So, you’ve become habituated to the tracts? Built up a tolerance? You need to move on to the hard stuff, then. Try [_Crusaders Comics._](http://www.chick.com/catalog/comiclist.asp#crusaders) (The first hit’s _free_ . . .) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fly-away-1-day-early-jan-13-chick-tract/645703/29 "2013-01-02T19:34:01Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Yeah, yeah, right. We all know about **your** Satanic bias! Chick [tells the whole truth about the Mormons!](http://media.chick.com/digital-comics/0118/0118_6.html)😃 BTW, I must say this one disappointed me a bit, because, where’s the third act?! All it does is give Chick’s take on Mormon history. In the classic days of Crusaders Comix, the Crusaders would have done something to **help** the poor woman, beyond putting her on a bus. The murderers would have been brought to (man’s) justice. And, inevitably at some point in the story, some benighted but good-hearted Mormon would be shown his errors and get saved, by the **real** Jesus, not that cheap ZCMI store-brand knockoff Jeezis. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fly-away-1-day-early-jan-13-chick-tract/645703/30 "2013-01-02T21:11:28Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > So, you’ve become habituated to the tracts? Built up a tolerance? You need to move on to the hard stuff, then. Try [_Crusaders Comics._](http://www.chick.com/catalog/comiclist.asp#crusaders) (The first hit’s _free_ . . .) I haven’t cracked a virtual cover yet, but reading the deluded comments of some of the mags is almost just as fun. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fly-away-1-day-early-jan-13-chick-tract/645703/31 "2013-01-02T21:50:36Z")
“Supreme Justice Mahoney”? So the great perpetrator of evil persecution of christians is an Irish guy? Is that a subtle swipe at catholicism? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fly-away-1-day-early-jan-13-chick-tract/645703/32 "2013-01-02T22:05:27Z")
> [@For You](#): > > “Supreme Justice Mahoney”? So the great perpetrator of evil persecution of christians is an Irish guy? Is that a subtle swipe at catholicism? From _Rome_ of all places. I’d say yes. Although how this RCC OWG flipped from Cristianity to some idiotic mix of Wicca and assorted New Age woo, I’d love to know. I think a prequel is in order. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fly-away-1-day-early-jan-13-chick-tract/645703/33 "2013-01-02T22:10:27Z")
> [@For You](#): > > “Supreme Justice Mahoney”? So the great perpetrator of evil persecution of christians is an Irish guy? Is that a subtle swipe at catholicism? Certainly not. Jack Chick never makes a **subtle** swipe at Catholicism. Nor at anyone or anything else. The nearest thing he ever comes to subtlety is drawing a villain not specified as Jewish with unmistakably Jewish features – and, actually, Chick himself does not do that, his sometime-artist Fred Carter does. (You can tell the difference, Carter draws much less cartoonishly and more photorealistically; all the Crusaders Comics are Carter’s artwork.) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fly-away-1-day-early-jan-13-chick-tract/645703/34 "2013-01-02T22:16:13Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > From _Rome_ of all places. I’d say yes. > > Although how this RCC OWG flipped from Cristianity to some idiotic mix of Wicca and assorted New Age woo, I’d love to know. I think a prequel is in order. The answer is simple: 1. There was no “flipping,” the Roman Catholic **Institution** (not “Church,” thank you very much) never **was** Christian, it was always a false front authored by Satan. (The real Christians went underground when Emperor Constantine made a false conversion and created the RCI, and did not re-emerge until the time of Martin Luther – I read that in one of the Crusaders Comics.) 2. Catholicism, Wicca, Communism, Nazism, Islam, Freemasonry – it’s all the same. Whatever is spiritual or “religious” and not truly of God is of Satan and literally run by him. (True Christians are not “religious,” by the way, Chick emphasizes frequently that “Jesus hates religion,” defining religion as ritual, etc. Which is at least etymologically defensible, “religion” derives from a Latin word meaning “discipline,” IIRC.) What’s more, the Vatican was quite literally behind the creation of Communism, Nazism, **and** Islam. ---
**Author:** ![Reepicheep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@Reepicheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reepicheep)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fly-away-1-day-early-jan-13-chick-tract/645703/35 "2013-01-02T23:18:24Z")
No Fang, :(. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fly-away-1-day-early-jan-13-chick-tract/645703/36 "2013-01-02T23:57:51Z")
> [@Reepicheep](#): > > No Fang, :(. 😕 You mean, **Cardinal** Fang? I wasn’t expecting . . . ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fly-away-1-day-early-jan-13-chick-tract/645703/37 "2013-01-03T00:22:47Z")
I can’t say I hate all Chick tracts, because there was one, just one, that I thought wasn’t as bad as all the rest. That is to say, it wasn’t hateful, and didn’t put anyone down. It was “The Little Princess” [Chick.com: Little Princess, The](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0063/0063_01.asp) Yes, the parents are dimwits, typical people who have never heard of Christiainity,but they are loving parents to their two children, one of whom is dying of an unnamed disease. And the people who save them are nice too, they don’t even hate Halloween, giving out candy along with the religious tract the little girl gets. And they don’t push themselves on the parents, waiting to witness to them only after they are called. In a peculiar sort of way this tract was rather sweet. Surprised the heck out of me when I ran into it, because _every single other Chick tract I ever read_ seems to be hateful of anyone who doesn’t believe as Chick does. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fly-away-1-day-early-jan-13-chick-tract/645703/38 "2013-01-03T01:28:41Z")
> [@For You](#): > > “Supreme Justice Mahoney”? So the great perpetrator of evil persecution of christians is an Irish guy? Is that a subtle swipe at catholicism? I think its a reference to our local Cardinal (Mr. Chick lives and operates around SoCal): [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger\_Mahony](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Mahony) ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fly-away-1-day-early-jan-13-chick-tract/645703/39 "2013-01-03T01:38:41Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I can’t say I hate all Chick tracts, because there was one, just one, that I thought wasn’t as bad as all the rest. That is to say, it wasn’t hateful, and didn’t put anyone down. It was “The Little Princess” [Chick.com: Little Princess, The](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0063/0063_01.asp) > > Yes, the parents are dimwits, typical people who have never heard of Christiainity,but they are loving parents to their two children, one of whom is dying of an unnamed disease. > > And the people who save them are nice too, they don’t even hate Halloween, giving out candy along with the religious tract the little girl gets. And they don’t push themselves on the parents, waiting to witness to them only after they are called. > > In a peculiar sort of way this tract was rather sweet. Surprised the heck out of me when I ran into it, because _every single other Chick tract I ever read_ seems to be hateful of anyone who doesn’t believe as Chick does. Holy shit. I don’t think I’ve ever read that one, and you’re right, it’s actually very pleasant. Not even a little demon hanging around haw-haw’ing, no cold contemptuous doctors, no sneering at mention of Jesus, nothing. I didn’t even know he’d published any like that. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fly-away-1-day-early-jan-13-chick-tract/645703/40 "2013-01-03T02:19:42Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > So, you’ve become habituated to the tracts? Built up a tolerance? You need to move on to the hard stuff, then. Try [_Crusaders Comics._](http://www.chick.com/catalog/comiclist.asp#crusaders) (The first hit’s _free_ . . .) Ah… That’s the stuff. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fly-away-1-day-early-jan-13-chick-tract/645703.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-fly-away-1-day-early-jan-13-chick-tract/645703.md?page=3)