No soon said than done! “Jack the Chick” has just released this one some time this morning.
I’m sitting out this one, as far as writing the OP. It turned out to be even more disgusting than I thought. It looked like just another “slam Satan (and non-believers)” tract but soon zeroed in on Catholicism.
But I will say this, for now:
“Adam got fired?! So why let it revert to Satan??? Why not give it to Michael the Archangel?”
Thanks for the praise. Maybe I’ll go down in history as the SDMB representative of chicklets.
And if it makes you feel any better, I had this complaint in mind ever since I first came across the thread. If I had been inclined to really to rage on anyone, it would have been the OP.
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“Adam got fired?! So why let it revert to Satan??? Why not give it to Michael the Archangel?”
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God-the-Father originally said “Give this to a Jew Congressman in another district”. Unfortunately the angels asked “What’s a Jew? Or a district?” to which He said “Oh, yeah, getting ahead of myself here…”.
I love the line from that tract that “God found a friend, Abraham”. I wonder how he found him: post something on a clay tablet, they met at the creek where their wives did laundry, run into each other at the goat market… how does this work?
The original whole story involves Satan being merely an instrument of Numero Uno, at least at first. The Book of Job makes it clear that while most angels bring good things, Satan brings bad things, but still Divinely ordained ones. Numero Uno didn’t seem surprised at his appearance before the throne, and making a bet about a saint’s steadfastness is not something you do with an incarnation of evil. (There are some Bible fans who claim that at some point he became a rebel, and the enemy of all things good. Only at that point did he become barred from entering heaven, but he still is in communication.)
I think Chick just wanted to show an Ugly-American-intellectual with a countenance to match.
Some more fought ignorance: In the “multiple deities” panel, I saw the hand holding the tablet marked “IHS” with the caption “water god” and thought, “ ?? Doesn’t ‘IHS’ just mean ‘Jesus’?”
So I googled it and found that yes, “IHS” (from the first three letters of “Jesus” in Greek) is a standard “Christogram” signifying the name of Jesus. But Chick-type fundie Protestants consider it some kind of satanic acronym for the pagan gods Isis, Horus and Seb. Huh, who knew.
Still not quite sure what “water god” has to do with it, though.
John Wilkes Booth, the Surratts, and other members of the conspiracy were Catholic. Others weren’t (Lewis Powell, for instance, had studied to be a Baptist minister), but “The Vatican/Jesuits/Catholics-in-general were behind the Lincoln killing” started pretty much the minute J.W.B. and the Surratts were identified, 1865 being a time of particular anti-Catholic sentiment due to the flood of Irish and German immigrants coming into the nation. Some, like Chick and numerous wild ass conspiracy sites, tout it as if Pope Pius IX had personally held open the door to Ford’s Theatre for Booth.
I’ve also read a Chick comic not only charging that but reproducing at face value the lurid charges of Father Chiniquy and suchlike things of the time, with orgies in convents and tunnels for priests’ and monks’ access, etc.
?? Doesn’t ‘IHS’ just mean ‘Jesus’?”