It has been decades since I encountered a Chick tract in the wild (I commuted to college by bus, and the zealots would leave them on the seats)
But this turd showed up (addressed to occupant) in my mailbox yesterday:
National Sunday Law I’m not sure what the bulk rate for sending out 94 page books would be, but it seems like somebody is investing a bit in this. But maybe they came to my door, saw this next to the doorbell and mailed me the book instead?
I couldn’t manage more than quick skim…it is a mixture of Seventh Day Adventest anti-Catholic & Dominionist ramblings stirred in with a large measure of anti-government conspiracy theories.
Since I didn’t actually read the thing, here is a TLDR take-away from amazon reviewer Labarum:
“Having read poor apologetical works by numerous groups, I had come across my share of illogical and at times illucid treatises. Yet National Sunday Law belongs in a class of its own - it may be to apologetics books what Plan 9 from Outer Space is to science fiction movies.”
I just may have to steel myself and dive in and see how crazy these folks are. Soooo hard to turn off the outrage meter since I quit drinking though.
It is a deep pool you are diving into, full of sharks and icebergs, to mix metaphors. There’s more crazy out there than you can imagine. To stay sober, I recommend you start drinking again.
I saw one in Denver International Airport at Christmas. It was resting on top of a urinal; maybe not the best place to put something you want strangers to pick up.
It’s a Seventh-day Adventist book. The local church or some zealous member may have sent it out.
The SDA teaching is that keeping Sunday as the Sabbath is the “mark of the beast” foretold in Revelation 13, and that it will be the question of which day (Saturday, the true Sabbath of God or Sunday, the devil’s vile substitute) is the proper Sabbath that will separate true Christians from all others in the end time just before Christ returns. According to the prophecies of Ellen G. White, the late prophetess of Seventh-day Adventism, many nations will enforce Sunday-keeping laws and will persecute keepers of the true Sabbath. Ultimately, Christ will return and destroy the Sunday-keepers.
Yes, that’s the official doctrine of a well-known church with several million followers.
That is why I call myself an “areligionist” instead of an atheist. I am willing to accept there may be some all-in guiding purpose to the universe (albeit I haven’t seen much of it), but the idea of any religion, past, present, or future having a hammer lock on the ‘truth’ is something I refuse to accept. Evidence such as this only bolsters my opinion.
How old is it? I wonder if it’s the same one I found at my doctor’s office over a decade ago.
I’d tell you what I remember was in that one, but I’m sure the teachings are the same. The Catholic Church is the Antichrist, proven by saying the number of years of something Catholic related was the same as the number of days in 3.5 years from the booknof Daniel, I think.
I was into reading about various eschatologies back then, and this was something new.
I’m a practicing Catholic and I have fellow Catholic friends who would like to get a copy of “What happens when your child marries a Catholic” that I remember in the pamphlet rack in a Baptist church from the 50’s.
Anybody ever see one of those? I think all the women are supposed to become nuns but I was about 8, so the idea that “they are spawn of the devil” comes from somewhere else.