truly I say unto you, this **** of a lady will be eaten last! :eek:
Well, he has “Sheriff John”. Look at him in the “3 months later” panel, with his creepy single bead of sweat. The guy could freeze the blood of John Wayne Gacy. If Mean Momma can stand up to Sheriff John, she’s a badass babe indeed.
Hmm, I hadn’t noticed that. So he thinks it’s worth dressing up to recruit Pastor John, but a sleeveless T is fine for the town meeting. This town is weird.
Obviously, and the point is rather backwards. Job was tortured in order to test his faith and turn him away from God. Petunia’s trials are meant to turn her to God. I do think that someone like Petunia would in fact rail against an unjust God for taking her three children instead of dedicating her life to Him.
And I do agree that most people I know who are like Petunia tend to be Evangelical Christians, at least ostensibly.
What kind of a place deals with an abusive parent with a preacher? Where is child protective services? Shouldn’t the children be taken away? How come they weren’t when daddy got arrested and the problems came out?
And why am I looking for logic in a Chick Tract?
True story: A devout Catholic hands out anti-abortion Chick tracts in front of my town’s Planned Parenthood. But she told me she doesn’t hand out the anti-Catholic ones.
Chick is the anti-Cecil. In order to keep the cosmic balance, the champion of the fight against ignorance must be balanced by the champion of the promotion of ignorance. Should the two ever meet they would vanish in a puff of existential angst.
I am thinking that Cecil would slay Chick, but then be killed by the deadly black acid spewing from the corpse, thus ushering in a new, gentler era.
God kills children to make a point all the time in the Bible. How are the “moderate Christians” going to condemn this while pretending they can maintain the religion as a whole?
Hey, the first time I saw a Chick Tract, many years ago, I though that it was a parody, as well.
I’m going to have to step in.
Panel 17 is the first panel showing the town meeting (has 8:30 PM in the top left corner.)
Panels 17, 18 and 19 are all during the town meeting. Tattooed wife-beater-T-shirt-wearing guy suggests to ask the pastor to intervene (panels 17 and 18). In panel 19, another guy criticizes either the prayer request or the pastor’s punctuation, saying “That’s stupid”. But snarky guy in panel 19 is not the same guy as the tattooed guy from panels 17 and 18. He might have similar facial features but it can’t be the same one. Tattooed wife-beater-T-shirt-wearing guy is a “good” guy because he suggests that the pastor help them. The guy saying that “Lot’s of prayer” is stupid is a “bad” guy because he opposes the power of prayer.
Someone on the side of Good in panels 17 and 18 would not be switching to Evil in panel 19 unless we had seen Satan tempting him. Ergo they are different people.
When I worked at a library, we were constantly finding these things on the bookshelves and stuffed between the pages of books–particularly the science books about evolution. 
Really, really weird. Somehow I misread “Yahweh” as “Cthulhu” in this post. Gotta be some kind of Freudian slip.
The demographic targeted for these tracts is the people who buy and distribute them, not the long suffering public.
Hey, they’re only 16 cents; that’s cheap. In 100 years as an antique they may be worth a quarter or so. 
I think you’re right, they’re meant to be different people. The guy in panel 19 actually looks a lot like the atheist professor in Big Daddy.
God is great. See how he killed those hooligan kids? Takin’ out the trash! He’s like Batman without the gadgets.
Po-tay-to, po-tah-to.
I wish I could say that I’m surprised at this. I’m not.
I thought nothing could be more terrifying than the number of look-alike ugly people in this tract, or the horrifying theological message. Then I read at the bottom:
I will now have nightmares of brainwashed urchins booby-trapping my library, condo lobby, and local restaurants. Why do I open these threads? WHY???
It’s not over yet.
Wait till you see your PM box.
BWAHAHAHA!
Don’t you mean HAW HAW HAW?