# New Chick Tract: Mean Momma **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 14, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-mean-momma/599672 "2011-10-14T20:55:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-mean-momma/599672/21 "2011-10-15T13:19:25Z")
> [@Meyer6](#): > > I like how the newspaper mentions that nobody went to Mr.Parker’s funeral. That’s considerably harsher than any obituary section I’ve ever read. I also enjoyed how none of Mr. Parker’s good neighbors deigned to go as well, but it’s only scandalous how his estranged daughter didn’t show. But then, perhaps if this particular paper ran the obituary before the service, people would, like, be able to attend. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-mean-momma/599672/22 "2011-10-15T13:22:21Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > [Submitted for your approval](http://chick.com/reading/tracts/1068/1068_01.asp): Yahweh kills (or arranges for the death of) three children to spite a sociopathic mother–who, it is implied, is rewarded for ruining their lives with eternal salvation. You aren’t kidding! I though for sure that was just your interpretation, but that entirely seems to be the point. God kills the kids to make a woman feel bad, so she’ll then get saved. It wasn’t even the kids’ fault at all. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-mean-momma/599672/23 "2011-10-15T16:06:39Z")
I noticed at the top of the page there is a link reading ‘Place order’. So I clicked on it and typed in ‘I order you to stop with this silly shit, already.’ There, that’s taken care of. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-mean-momma/599672/24 "2011-10-15T16:14:49Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > I don’t know which is weirder–that the badass guy in the wife-beater T-shirt, covered with tattoos, recommends a pastor “because he’s a man of God”, or that the when the pastor asks for prayer the guy who recommended him thinks, “That’s stupid.” It sure looks like the same guy, but if it is, he combed his hair and put on a jacket, shirt, and tie between the two panels. Maybe what he thinks is stupid is the punctuation in “Lot’s of prayer!” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-mean-momma/599672/25 "2011-10-15T21:38:28Z")
> [@Meyer6](#): > > I like how the newspaper mentions that nobody went to Mr.Parker’s funeral. That’s considerably harsher than any obituary section I’ve ever read. Think how Momma’s boys obits must have read. “Hated local delinquent killed by God in car crash”, “Bastard 2 hangs himself, school calls holiday” and “God 3, Momma Aught”. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-mean-momma/599672/26 "2011-10-15T21:48:17Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > [Submitted for your approval](http://chick.com/reading/tracts/1068/1068_01.asp): Yahweh kills (or arranges for the death of) three children to spite a sociopathic mother–who, it is implied, is rewarded for ruining their lives with eternal salvation. I’m thinking this was inspired by the Book of Job although obviously Petunia is rather less righteous… ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-mean-momma/599672/27 "2011-10-15T22:12:11Z")
“I’ll be praying God **will** make you fear him, Petunia - no matter what it takes!” Damn. You don’t screw with Pastor Sammy. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-mean-momma/599672/28 "2011-10-15T22:36:13Z")
“Wait, Petunia, I bring \*\*good \*\*news ! Turns out God is as much of an asshole as you ! You two should get along splendidly !” ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-mean-momma/599672/29 "2011-10-15T22:50:35Z")
What, exactly, were they expecting the _Mayor_ to do about her? It is not like he can round up a posse and run her out on a rail. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-mean-momma/599672/30 "2011-10-16T02:08:31Z")
Geez, is Chick even still alive? Looking him up in [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_T._Chick), I see he’s 87. He was the font of much mirth and ridicule among my circle of friends back in Texas … all except for one who was genuinely mentally disturbed. I mean under a doctor’s care and medication, the whole nine yards. He took Jack Chick as gospel truth and for the longest time thought we all did too. He was especially worshipful of any of the tracts that portrayed the Catholic Church in general and the Jesuits in particular as the direct source of all evil in the world today. We finally had to tell him point blank what we thought of Chick, and I think he probably had to have his meds upped after that, he seemed so shocked. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-mean-momma/599672/31 "2011-10-16T03:01:12Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Geez, is Chick even still alive? Looking him up in [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_T._Chick), I see he’s 87. Per your link, > [@](#): > > He has never released a photo of himself for publication, although photos purportedly of Chick have been published by others. Strangely, the same can be said of Cecil Adams. Could Jack T. Chick be an alter ego of the Perfect Master? Some questions should be left unanswered…😉 ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-mean-momma/599672/32 "2011-10-16T14:32:06Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > What, exactly, were they expecting the _Mayor_ to do about her? It is not like he can round up a posse and run her out on a rail. > **[Ken McElroy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy)** > > Kenneth Rex McElroy (June 16, 1934 – July 10, 1981) was an American criminal and convicted attempted murderer who resided in Skidmore, Missouri, United States. He was known as "the town bully", and his unsolved killing became the focus of international attention. Over the course of his life, McElroy was accused of dozens of felonies, including assault, child molestation, statutory rape, arson, animal cruelty, hog and cattle rustling, and burglary. > In all, he was indicted 21 times but escaped con... Honestly it reminded me of the lynching of Ken McElroy (people might not think of it as a lynching but that’s what it was). He was town as the town bully, there were town meetings with citizens complaining that the authorities should do something about it and they finally solved their problem by shooting him in broad daylight in front of dozens of witnesses. Nobody was ever convicted. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-mean-momma/599672/33 "2011-10-16T23:03:08Z")
Chick is a mental case. This strip really confirms it. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-mean-momma/599672/34 "2011-10-17T00:00:47Z")
> [@CitizenPained](#): > > I’ve seen tracts - I meant print as in produce. I really thought the whole thing was a joke/spoof! > > D’oh! They are a joke, but unfortunately not the humorous kind. Far too many people really believe they are receiving the wisdom of God from Chick tracts. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-mean-momma/599672/35 "2011-10-17T02:21:39Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > [Ken McElroy - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy) > > Honestly it reminded me of the lynching of Ken McElroy (people might not think of it as a lynching but that’s what it was). He was town as the town bully, there were town meetings with citizens complaining that the authorities should do something about it and they finally solved their problem by shooting him in broad daylight in front of dozens of witnesses. Nobody was ever convicted. Sounds like a fascinating case. Did you read the book? ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-mean-momma/599672/36 "2011-10-17T02:27:58Z")
Best part: panel 19, when the Pastor says, “Lot’s of prayer!” Lot’s? “Lot is of prayer”? Or is it “of prayer belonging to Lot”? 😕 > [@Kobal2](#): > > “Wait, Petunia, I bring \*\*good \*\*news ! Turns out God is as much of an asshole as you ! You two should get along splendidly !” It’s a good thing I’m an atheist. If a bitch like that can get into heaven, I don’t want to be anywhere NEAR the place! ---
**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:** [October 17, 2011, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-mean-momma/599672/37 "2011-10-17T04:27:44Z")
Wait a sec, the father of her kids got _hanged_? So they lived in Washington state? Bonus: the cop’s laptop had a banana logo on it. I don’t get why the middle kid committed suicide. Is learning that he’s not Momma’s favourite (or at least that he _wasn’t_ - with the death of his brother, he’s due for a promotion) enough to push him over the edge? ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-mean-momma/599672/38 "2011-10-17T05:47:02Z")
> [@user\_hostile](#): > > Strangely, the same can be said of Cecil Adams. > > Could Jack T. Chick be an alter ego of the Perfect Master? Well, nobody’s ever seen both of them in the same room. Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-mean-momma/599672/39 "2011-10-17T06:21:50Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I don’t get why the middle kid committed suicide. Is learning that he’s not Momma’s favourite (or at least that he _wasn’t_ - with the death of his brother, he’s due for a promotion) enough to push him over the edge? Chick 11:17 For God so loved Petunia that he sent her second begotten son to burn forever in the lake of fire for the sin of suicide to save her eternal soul. I think we can all learn from this. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-mean-momma/599672/40 "2011-10-17T08:23:59Z")
The youngest kid, Billy Bob, seems to suffer some sort of TIA. Note the problem with his tongue. Mean Mama needs to lay off the pork sausage. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-mean-momma/599672.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-mean-momma/599672.md?page=3)