Did you stuff them into the theology books? I got one real Chick tract at the Protestant Church Day in Cologne (I think it was the anti-Catholic one, which was doubly dumb) and I gave to one of our senior theology students when I got back, to dissect all the factually, historically and theologically wrong statements there. You can do a whole seminar for a semester if you got several.
It’s like the excreable Da Vincis code of Dan Brown: we have the original book as source and about two dozen books written by experts in various fields refuting his points. Each of these refutations give students real (historical, theological etc.) knowledge along with a demonstration in skeptical evaluation of outrageous claims.
So used the right way, even Chick tracts are useful.
What this tract reminded me off was the revengeful God of Left Behind and the discussion over at Fred Clarks slacktiverse (now on new server). The same horrible gleeful sociopathic enjoyment of other people’s suffering.
Grats to those of you who have correctly predicted the trademark “Haw Haw Haw” in the 21st panel…I salute you!
Heh. I think that I’ll suggest this to the local Baptist seminary…might be fun to watch their pointy little heads asplode.
Ability to detect apostrophe abuse in spoken dialogue: One of the lesser superpowers
What do you expect when law enforcement is provided by Sheriff John?
There is a clear moral here: If horrible grief comes into your life, it’s just God’s way of telling you you need to get saved. (If you’re saved already, whaddaya bitchin’ about, every Christian bears his cross.)
Mine too.
But those people (At least most of them.) actually believe. I have known some that ranked Chick tracts right after the Bible in terms of Truth Straight From God. And the number that do the distributing is not small.
But it is difficult to clean the ink off your skin since you can’t see it. Plus the paper is really rough.
I’ve often wondered, upon seeing a moved thread, whence it came. May we please have mods state this? I guess I’ll post to ATMB.
I’m beginning to miss the YAHHHH! -s, though.
Not necessarily. Chick has definitely bought into the “age of accountability” jazz. There are some dubious (IIRC) Bible passages that seem to say such; some theologians don’t buy it. It’s not too surprising that the Bible leaves such a “serious” matter vague, though. There actually isn’t a single reference to eternal hell-fire, a Judgment Day, or even eternal bliss for the godly in the Torah, aka Pentateuch. In the later Bible books there emerge some indications of an afterlife, with rewards and punishments, but there are plenty of contradictions on the subject.
Back to the tract: I’d say it’s "curtains’ for the oldest lad who drove a vehicle. The middle son who committed suicide is a bit hard to call. I doubt very much that Chick would have the youngest son aware enough for his sins to count against him.
So, if I had to guess, I’d say only two out of three would be pushing up flames in regular, holding-cell hell, while awaiting the Lake of Fire.
And this is a good time to mention that, per Chick, Hitler would be in heaven now if he repented at the last instant. Not that JTC has actually said that, but anything otherwise is impossible in his fundie world. (Talk about suffering for the “unsaved” Jews.)
Ahh, to be new at this. Rather than mock you, I feel envious.
Well, first, I really wish people would stop taking my name in vain! And in a Chick-tract thread, no less!
I actually once did print a copy or two of one. It was the one with the impossible boss that the newly converted Christian lady was about to stop praying for. I found it hysterical that the tyrant-boss didn’t see any similarity to himself. I was seriously contemplating sending this to an acquaintance who resembled the character, although I never worked for him.
- “Oggie”
If JTC refers to Chick, then yes, he has said this: he’s even made a whole tract. It’s about a sheriff who catches a killer and murderer: the killer is visited in prison by the pastor, and repents on the gallows (literally in the last minute); the sheriff is also approached by some fundie, but rejects this because he’s a good guy keeping the commandments. Later the same day, the sheriff gets bitten by a snake out in the wilderness and also dies, both come before judgement and the sheriff gets thrown into hell because his name isn’t in the book.
Landoverbaptist church had a nice essay mocking this, about how the congregation rejoiced at the thought that a serial child killer would be re-united with his victims after his death because he’d converted just in time.
(Do I need to search for links, or does everybody remember what I’m talking about?)
This assumes that ‘soul’ is in direct ratio to biomass. We know that midichlorians don’t work this way; Anakin is a scrap of a kid, and is chock-ful. Do we have any other scripture that suggests this model? (“and lo, G*d loveth not the scrawny”)
Is he a second guy in a jacket, or is he a decapitated head in the lower corner of the panel?
Well, Genesis 41:19 clearly says “After them, seven other cows came up–scrawny and very ugly and lean. I had never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt.”.
You could reasonably imply that the cows’ scrawniness was a deciding factor in God giving Egypt the short end of the stick with the plagues and all, when he was shedding graces left and right.
I mean, why waste a perfectly good grace on ugly and scrawny cows?
To address your other point, Anakin became Darth Vader, not exactly a paragon of good or virtue. That’s what being scrawny does to you. You go to the dark side. Let me also add, that in Return of the Jedi, it is a distinctly plump Anakin that makes an appearance as a ghost / spirit during the Ewok feast of celebration. So there you go.
Another new one…at least the website says it’s new, and I haven’t seen it before. And best of all it’s about Zombies!!
JTC is amazingly current for such an old fart.
Another new one??? That is the latest one!
It’s “Mean Momma” that was overdue for a “review” here. Early on, I was surprised that no one had done a number on it. When I belately spotted this thread after it had been moved to the Pit, I checked the OP date, and it was after the “Zombie” tract thread.
If you are wondering
just who the dimbulb is that
started the Halloween-oriented tract thread,
He also has been known here as–
True Blue Jack
Oh, and this particular clown even forgot to put the tract title’s question mark in the thread title!
One more thing-- If “that other Jack” has developed a new trend, and is actually putting out tracts on time (bimonthly, at the beginning of odd-numbered months) this post is just in time to avoid the confusion that tomorrow, November 1st, may bring to those new to the tracts.
C’mon, folks! Let’s keep up!
I’m genuinely surprised that he didn’t get his comeuppance. Maybe we’ll see a sequel where he’s pulled into the flames by Lucifer himself after rejecting the teachings of a devout football coach from his old high school.
Wow, God is a dick.
This was on my hometown newspaper’s website this morning. Let’s see if I can get the linky thing to work…
Pastor apologizes for Halloween pamphlets
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20111031/NEWS11/111039956/1177/NEWS11
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Another new one??? That is the latest one!
It’s “Mean Momma” that was overdue for a “review” here. Early on, I was surprised that no one had done a number on it. When I belately spotted this thread after it had been moved to the Pit, I checked the OP date, and it was after the “Zombie” tract thread.
If you are wondering
just who the dimbulb is that
started the Halloween-oriented tract thread,
He also has been known here as–
True Blue Jack 
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Sheeesh! how did I miss that :smack:
Sorry Jack, keep up the good work:cool: