# New Chick Tract: "It's Not Your Fault" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 1, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-its-not-your-fault/515988 "2009-11-01T22:48:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-its-not-your-fault/515988/1 "2009-11-01T22:48:03Z")
Again, I’m only putting this in the Pit because of tradition. Chick Publications presents one of their most insane tracts yet with [It’s Not Your Fault](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1060/1060_01.asp)- and when you’re talking about Chick Publications, something being the “most insane” is saying something. This tract appears to depict Jesus as a sort of benevolent mafioso- if someone’s causing you trouble, just believe in Him and he’ll do the rest. If you pray for your enemies, He knows what you’re really saying. Mean old judge won’t shut down a foster home run by pedophiles? Pray for that mean old judge and Jesus will shut _him_ down- permanently! Also, Jesus would have apparently stopped the Rwandan genocide in the same way. ---
**Author:** ![Cort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/77aa72/32.png) [@Cort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cort)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-its-not-your-fault/515988/2 "2009-11-01T23:18:55Z")
A new Chick tract? Ah, I fucking love that crazy old bastard! ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-its-not-your-fault/515988/3 "2009-11-01T23:21:04Z")
Is it me, or is this just totally incoherent? It’s like suicide -\> group home closing -\> pedophilia -\> Rwandan genocide? I can’t even finish it, the whole thing makes no fucking sense. OTOH, I’ve been doing a lot of research into UN peacekeeping interventions for my international human rights class, and I’d say that’s actually a pretty accurate representation of what the UN did in Rwanda. ---
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-its-not-your-fault/515988/4 "2009-11-01T23:22:30Z")
Life is horrible, children get molested, and people get butchered routinely in many parts of Africa. This message brought to you by God. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-its-not-your-fault/515988/5 "2009-11-01T23:23:37Z")
Just when you thought Chick tracts couldn’t get any screwier…that’s a whole new brand of crazy they’ve brought us. They must have found a new Crazy Lode. ---
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-its-not-your-fault/515988/6 "2009-11-01T23:24:03Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Is it me, or is this just totally incoherent? It’s like suicide -\> group home closing -\> pedophilia -\> Rwandan genocide? I can’t even finish it, the whole thing makes no fucking sense. > > OTOH, I’ve been doing a lot of research into UN peacekeeping interventions for my international human rights class, and I’d say that’s actually a pretty accurate representation of what the UN did in Rwanda. I think he thought he was writing an episode of Law & Order or something. When I got about halfway through something snapped in my brain, like I’m sure would happen if gravity reversed. I had to double back and make sure I was still reading the same strip and that I hadn’t just lost time, X-Files style. ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-its-not-your-fault/515988/7 "2009-11-01T23:27:23Z")
I don’t know about most insane ever … BUT, it’s a great demonstration of a certain mindset, and a certain way of understanding the concept of ‘forgiveness’ - attain heaven yourself by forgiving those who’ve done you wrong, on the understanding that the ones you’re ‘forgiving’ will be tortured for eternity by the loving god you’ve taken into your heart. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-its-not-your-fault/515988/8 "2009-11-01T23:32:39Z")
Man, if I was Romeo Dallaire, I’d be pissed. Anyway, how high is the ceiling in that place? A seven year-old (maybe 4 feet tall) is hanging, with his feet at the shoulder-level of an adult man (at least five feet)…a ten-foot ceiling? Must be an old building. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-its-not-your-fault/515988/9 "2009-11-01T23:36:31Z")
Did Chick fire all the good artists or something? Some of the older Chick tracts used to be really well-drawn, with very detailed anatomy and shading and everything; clearly they had a talented artist working for them, or several, since there were a few different styles. Now all of the recent Chick tracts seem to be in the signature shitty Chick style (I think it’s Chick himself.) What gives? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-its-not-your-fault/515988/10 "2009-11-01T23:37:12Z")
> [@Junior\_Spaceman](#): > > I don’t know about most insane ever … > > BUT, it’s a great demonstration of a certain mindset, and a certain way of understanding the concept of ‘forgiveness’ - attain heaven yourself by forgiving those who’ve done you wrong, on the understanding that the ones you’re ‘forgiving’ will be tortured for eternity by the loving god you’ve taken into your heart. Do you have a book, or magazine, or pamphlet or sumptin..cause this is something I could get behind… ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-its-not-your-fault/515988/11 "2009-11-02T00:14:26Z")
I couldn’t really get behind laughing at this one - it was just so _sad_, all these downtrodden and abused people and never a HAW HAW HAW among 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-its-not-your-fault/515988/12 "2009-11-02T00:19:42Z")
> [@Junior\_Spaceman](#): > > BUT, it’s a great demonstration of a certain mindset, and a certain way of understanding the concept of ‘forgiveness’ - attain heaven yourself by forgiving those who’ve done you wrong, on the understanding that the ones you’re ‘forgiving’ will be tortured for eternity by the loving god you’ve taken into your heart. Poor kids body fucked in one foster home and mind fucked in the next. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-its-not-your-fault/515988/13 "2009-11-02T00:24:26Z")
Damn, this one almost came close to having a message I could get behind (well, ignoring religious parts) and then it got all botched. Feh. ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-its-not-your-fault/515988/14 "2009-11-02T00:53:31Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Do you have a book, or magazine, or pamphlet or sumptin..cause this is something I could get behind… It’s funny you should ask :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-its-not-your-fault/515988/15 "2009-11-02T00:54:09Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > I couldn’t really get behind laughing at this one - it was just so _sad_, all these downtrodden and abused people and never a HAW HAW HAW among 'em. But there was a Ha Ha in the bit about Rwanda. That’s something at least. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-its-not-your-fault/515988/16 "2009-11-02T00:57:27Z")
Lesson I learned - if I forgive someone, the next day they’ll drop dead of a heart attack. Cool beans. ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-its-not-your-fault/515988/17 "2009-11-02T01:57:39Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > But there was a Ha Ha in the bit about Rwanda. That’s something at least. Doesn’t Chick normally put a little dog in all his strips? That’s not there either. The U.N. thrown in is a bit weird. I think most editors would have left them on the cutting room floor as being superfluous to the story. It reminds me a bit of the [Left Behind](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind_%28series%29) book/tv series, where they’re the bad guys too. Anyone know where that’s coming from? ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-its-not-your-fault/515988/18 "2009-11-02T02:01:34Z")
> [@Nanoda](#): > > The U.N. thrown in is a bit weird. I think most editors would have left them on the cutting room floor as being superfluous to the story. It reminds me a bit of the [Left Behind](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind_%28series%29) book/tv series, where they’re the bad guys too. Anyone know where that’s coming from? New World Order. You know. George Bush Sr. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_from\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Man\_from\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_from_Mars)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-its-not-your-fault/515988/19 "2009-11-02T02:33:25Z")
It’s a good thing Jesus was “with her through it all” after the marauders butchered the entire town, including cutting her husband to pieces before her very eyes, raping her and beating her to a pulp before leaving her for dead or who knows what terrible things might have happened. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-its-not-your-fault/515988/20 "2009-11-02T03:24:57Z")
> [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](#): > > New World Order. You know. George Bush Sr. Or maybe just the “put not your trust in princes” idea, i.e., you can only rely on God, not secular authorities, to solve your problems. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-its-not-your-fault/515988.md?page=2)