“The ones we thought would help us didn’t! The U.N. abandoned us. The “cowardly” superpowers didn’t care. While the terrorists butchered all our church members, my husband tried to stop them. They chopped him to pieces before my eyes! After murdering Bob, they turned on me like wild dogs…I was next! The monsters attacked and did unspeakable things to my body. Hours later, they left me for dead. But Jesus was with me through it all…not the United Nations!”
“So the United Nations did nothing to stop the Tutsis being slaughtered?”
“Exactly”
“And they stood by while your husband was murdered?”
“Yes.”
“And did nothing while you were being raped for hours?”
“Nothing.”
“And the United Nations is worthless because of this?”
“That’s right.”
“And Jesus was with you the whole time”
“Yes he was. Praise Jesus.”
“And what exactly did he do?”
“Excuse me?”
“What was Jesus doing while all of this was going on?”
“Uhhh…I told you…he was there with me…”
“So was the U.N. but you said they did nothing to stop the crimes that were going on so they’re worthless.”
“Yes…”
“Did Jesus do anything to stop them? Did he stop the killings or the rape?”
“No…”
“So Jesus was just like the United Nations. Saw it all happening and did nothing to stop it.”
“That’s not the point I was trying to make…”
“No, I think it’s clear. I can’t rely on Jesus to be there when I need him. Thanks for telling me that.”
Well, they did, but they prayed to that fake, nonexistent Jesus that the evil entity known as organized religion tells you about to control you, not the real Jesus people like Jack Chick believe in.
Why, I thought his caraciture looked better than he does.
For what is essentially a christian message for children, I can’t help but take notice of the gratuitous right wing political dig at the ineffective UN.
I believe that our dear friend Jack isn’t just aiming his tracts at children, but at adults who are either reluctant to read, or who can’t read well. That’s supposed to be one of the selling points, that Chick tracts are easy to read and understand. Easy to read, yes. Easy to understand, no, not unless you’re missing most of your logic circuits.
Why exactly was Judge Stone in the orphanage in the first place? Assuming he needed a better excuse for the staff than, “Hey, that six-year-old’s hot.”
Oh, I didn’t assume Dallaire was being specifically caricatured (or that Chick has even the faintest clue who Dallaire is), just that the generic U.N. Forces officer is depicted as being bureaucratically indifferent, whereas Dallaire would have gladly mowed down the murderers if he’d had the firepower he was desperately requesting. The decision to do nothing in Rwanda was well out of military hands. I wouldn’t have minded as much if the “peacekeepers” line had been delivered by a civilian with the U.N. Assembly in the background, i.e. in New York.
Ah, but Jesus kept her alive. He let her friends get slaughtered and her husband hacked to pieces and herself raped and beaten within an inch of her life, but he kept her alive so that she could pray for her enemies, thereby ensuring that they would drop dead of heart attacks or malaria or whatever and stand naked before Jesus and burn in hell.
As much as it pains me to defend Jack Chick, that is exactly what happened. No offense is meant to Romeo Dallaire, who did the best he could under terrible circumstances. While the mandate was written by the UNSC, peacekeepers really did stand around saying “it’s not our job to intervene”. (I’m sure they would have if they could have, though, it’s not like they were malicious.)
Gotta say, I love that last panel. “Jesus doesn’t play games. He died for you… and then he rose from the dead”. I can not not hear this sentence in George Carlin’s voice.
“Jesus don’t fuck around, son. He gets shit done. One prayer, that’s all it takes. He shows up with a baseball bat made from the True Cross and goes to town”.