I want to use the devils Jesus casts out as models for Spore creatures.
That right there is the greatest sentence I have ever seen in a Chick tract. That beats out HAW HAW HAW by a long shot.
May I borrow that for a signature?
He seems to be still around and still nominally in charge of his outfit, though I think he has staff doing most of the actual day-to-day by now.
“The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one… but still… they come!”
Sorry. Now I have the music stuck in my head.
Spiritually, aren’t we all cousins, Coz? Your neighbor is your cousin; that guy who flipped you off in traffic is your cousin; your sworn enemy is your cousin.
Why, even that girl I spent that night in a pup tent with is my cousin.
I’ll be in my bunk.
I’ve always wondered about that. Why the fixation on that translation?
And does that mean that any non-english speaker is automatically doomed? And/or that England was, for some reason, the new chosen country?
I LOLed
No, there’s a big FAQ on his site about why the King James Translation is the Word of God™ in English…
granted the FAQ often handwaves away odd and mis-translations, but whatever. Either way, the fact is, he recognizes the other language versions. Pretty much so long as you’re worshiping the right holy trinity in the correct manner you’re good.
Anyway… I find this one mostly lacking, even his detractors are doing better (though how could you beat Lovecraft?)
http://www.fredvanlente.com/cthulhutract/pages/index.html
Cthulhu and Christ – Armed and Dangerous (I found a better page with the same one a few days ago but am unable to find the page again, just ignore the weird coding errors).
When it comes to religion, the usual answer is: “because it’s what he grew up with, and no better reason”. You can apply it to almost any aspect.
Dammit! Now I’ve got that vocordered OOOOOO-LAAAAA! stuck in my head as well! Thanks, Sunspace!
I’ll be over soon to borrow money.
I woke up in a Dead Sea doorway
The Messiah knew my name.
He said “I can walk on water,
But can you get up and do the same?”
He spent his weekend on a phone pole,
Lord, there’s got to be a better way.
Now, tell me who is he?
OOO-OO-OOO!
Tell me who is he?
OOO-OO-OOO!
I really want to know!
Yeah -p- I was wondering why they have Bill Gaines saying “Jesus was intoleant … I HATE that!” You’d think Bill would be more likely to say something about him changing water into wine. He’d LIKE that.
I think the “Jesus was intolerant … I HATE that!” thing is a rehash of the fallacious argument that if you’re generally of the opinion that people should be tolerant, then you should tolerate the intolerant.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who immediately saw Bill Gaines in that second panel.
Bill Gaines of Mad? Does sort of look like him. How’d he get on Chick’s Naughty List?
I know it’s obvious, but I never get tired of the basic Jack Chick premise that we live in a country full of people only vaguely aware that there’s something called Christianity. I guess in his mind, that’s the way it really is.
I think Chickian logic works like this…
Jesus is the greatest thing ever. Christianity… true Christianity is the only way to salvation and even a child can see it is the best way to be. It was created by God thus is perfect.
There are people out there who are not Christians… Why?
A) They don’t want to be.
B) They have been decieved about the message by others (THE DEVIL HAW HAW HAW) .
C) they haven’t heard the message yet
Well as God is Perfect so A can’t be right.
B) is the good excuse to how people can be turned away by either the Devil or his instrument (the Catholic church in Chick’s world) except that would mean the Devil is really really powerful as he has decieved a hell of a lot of people!
C) Is the safest most comfortable answer.
In short Chick thinks the reason there aren’t more Christians is that most of it just hasn’t heard the word yet.
God’s Perfection has nothing to do with people not wanting to be Christians, and Jack has no problems portraying people who have had every opportunity to accept Christ choosing to reject Him & thus condemning themselves to Hell.
Now, C to the extent Jack portrays it is ridiculous, but it’s amazing how much ignorance about the Bible & Christian doctrine there is, including among professing Christians.
Ah… that makes sense. I honestly thought it was Ray Charles and was wondering “Did Ray say that?”
I wonder if Chick ever worked with or was turned down for a job by or parodied by Bill Gaines. (And how the hell old is Chick by now? I wonder if there’s anybody who’ll carry on when he’s gone to stand before the faceless glowing giant on the concrete thrown in the clouds.)
I like the little doggie the biker guy has on the back of his vest.