Found it. I’d totally forgotten about that.
Oh, come on, it’s allegory – and subtler and more, well, Christian than I’ve come to expect from Jack.
The grandfather is God. His son had to die to get this precious thing. It has tremendous value, but it has to remain hidden. (Cast not your pearls…) It’s kept in the family. (Church.) You can have it, although its value may not be apparent. You just have to make a token gesture to deserve it. Boy, you’ll be sorry if you don’t. Yadda yadda.
Yeah, it hasn’t got the punch of a regular Chick tract. Where’s the hate, Jack?
Ohhhhh, I think I see. So the fact that the diamond is uncut symbolizes the uncircumsized penises of the true believers, aka not the filthy Jews. Also, God is dead.
Makes sense.
A truly exceptionnal diamond would be very rare hence worth a lot, De Beers or not. Anyway, since when is Chick supposed to pay attention to the accuracy of such details?
What the fuck was that??
And wheres Lil Suzy? And why didn’t the man just yell for help if he was in his yard? he’d only broken his legs, not his voicebox! SHould’ve been carrying a cell phone, too.
It’s just the way the guy says, “When he died, he had no will . . . so the state took possession of his property.”, as if that were automatic. It bugs me because I don’t have a will and people have tried to tell me my property will escheat, which it won’t because I have relatives.
One other thing about this tract–notice how in the last panel, the woman looks younger and more attractive, with a distinctly better hairstyle. Who knew that converting to Christianity was an instant makeover???
If I’m lying in my backyard with two broken legs for two days before my neighbours came over, no way in hell would I hand them my precious diamond.
He was asked to assume the position.
By the way, your Location: Where exactly is “Somewhere non-eculdian”?
If ol’ Jack is past 80, we can expect that before long either he’ll be sorely disappointed. . . or we’re all in big, big trouble. Even though many Dopers are Christians, not many of us seem inclined toward the kind of groveling, unthinking, literal belief in Scripture that he seems to think is the only way into the 400-foot Jesus’ special club.
All I gotta say is if Chick’s right, I’d rather be wrong. A god as sick and twisted as Chick portrays isn’t worth worshipping, IMHO. With someone that psychotic in charge, no matter what you do, you’re eventually going to wind up on his bad side.
I was going to say that NO Chick Tract could be bad, but that was indeed horrible. The man is losing his touch.
How could anything with that “YAAAAAAH!” face possibly be bad?
Hahahaha yes! That was awesome!
I must remember that one.
It reminds me of a post in GQ I saw a long, long time ago, some teenager asked what sex smells like, and somebody came back with…
Classic
Anybody ever flip through a PBS show entitled “The Big Comfy Couch”?
Every once in a while, they will have a segment concerning a family (father, mother, son) who live in Lunette’s doll house doing something wacky.
The doll-house father: father in panel three of this tract. Just sayin’.
Not quite…'round my neck of the woods, if something comes that is too big to fit in the mailbox, the carrier will come up and knock. If there’s no answer, they’ll just leave it at the door, but they do check. Whether they check on a resident when the mail has obviously piled up for a while is another question to which I do not have an answer.
So how did the guy break his legs, anyway?
Tripped over some porn, no doubt.
Yes, I recall Big Comfy Couch
Somewhere the angles don’t make sense. And until now, neither did my spelling?
Heh. That’s what I thought. On reflection, I kinda like “non-eculdian” better. 
Posted by Tuckerfan:
Yeah – it must be like working for Stalin.
Chortle
It’s starting to amaze me how you never see a Chick Tract in which the Sinner™ is told all about Jesus, and he says something to the effect of, “Gee, that’s really interesting; I’ll give it some thought.”. He either eagerly accepts salvation, or rudely rejects it and promptly goes to hell. Apparently, in Jack Chick’s world, whether or not to accept the Lord’s everlasting love and forgiveness must be a snap decision based on information given to you by a stranger :rolleyes: .