# Really offensive Chick Tract **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 8, 2004, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-offensive-chick-tract/254062 "2004-07-08T02:31:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-offensive-chick-tract/254062/1 "2004-07-08T02:31:31Z")
[Really offensive Chick Tract](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1710/1710_01.asp) Bloody heck - he thinks all american indians can’t read? they have to go to school just like everybody else in the US… /thwaps him upside the head. Pity he can’t get a clue how pathetic he is. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-offensive-chick-tract/254062/2 "2004-07-08T02:53:47Z")
Did you really believe that there was a debate on this topic? Or were you aiming for the **Pit** and missed your Forum? (If the latter, you might want to e-mail the Mods and ask them to move it to the Forum where most Jack Chick commentaries dwell.) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-offensive-chick-tract/254062/3 "2004-07-08T04:26:25Z")
Moving this from Great Debates to The BBQ Pit. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-offensive-chick-tract/254062/4 "2004-07-08T04:36:19Z")
The stink lines and implied drunkard were a lovely touch. Does he actually get new converts with this stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-offensive-chick-tract/254062/5 "2004-07-08T04:36:39Z")
That’s just bizarre. (I love the way he changes facts constantly but is a literalist at the same time; the tree wasn’t _Sin_ but _Knowledge of Good & Evil_, which is completely different.) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-offensive-chick-tract/254062/6 "2004-07-08T05:28:56Z")
I don’t get it-what the hell is with the drunk guy? He isn’t even burning in hell! And not a single, “HAW HAW HAW!” The stink lines-loved the stink lines, though. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-offensive-chick-tract/254062/7 "2004-07-08T05:54:45Z")
Has there ever been a Chick tract that wasn’t “really offensive”? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-offensive-chick-tract/254062/8 "2004-07-08T06:07:17Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > [Really offensive Chick Tract](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1710/1710_01.asp) Apparently you’ve only read the one;) ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-offensive-chick-tract/254062/9 "2004-07-08T06:26:35Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Bloody heck - he thinks all american indians can’t read? they have to go to school just like everybody else in the US… Er…at the risk of defending Jack Chick :eek: , I’m familar with this one as _One Way_ . The exact same thing but not specifically directed at American Indians. So I don’t think the wordlessness was meant to imply they can’t read…it’s just one of his “classics”. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-offensive-chick-tract/254062/10 "2004-07-08T09:44:52Z")
The words ‘really offensive’ are pretty much redundant in this context. ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-offensive-chick-tract/254062/11 "2004-07-08T10:02:17Z")
How come God ain’t gots no face? ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-offensive-chick-tract/254062/12 "2004-07-08T10:50:34Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > [Really offensive Chick Tract](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1710/1710_01.asp) > > Bloody heck - he thinks all american indians can’t read? they have to go to school just like everybody else in the US… > > . I’m not sure why you state so. He necessarily thinks they can read, or else they couldn’t read the tract, and I assume that it’s targetted at them… ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-offensive-chick-tract/254062/13 "2004-07-08T11:18:02Z")
Who is this guy? Does a real ‘Jack Chick’ exist? Where is he from? Who pays him? ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-offensive-chick-tract/254062/14 "2004-07-08T12:53:06Z")
> [@Paul in Saudi](#): > > Who is this guy? Does a real ‘Jack Chick’ exist? Where is he from? Who pays him? [Jack Chick’s Biography From His Website](http://www.chick.com/information/authors/chick.asp) [A Parody of That Biography](http://www.weirdcrap.com/chick/chickbio.html) ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-offensive-chick-tract/254062/15 "2004-07-08T12:54:47Z")
Yeesh. Evidently, Chick seems to be able to waver between _offensive_ and _ **REALLY** offensive_. I noticed that it’s not only American Indians in the crowd. I notice in panel 9 what appears to be an Asian man with glasses, a blonde woman with glasses and a Mexican replete with sombrero. And, in panel 8, a cavalry officer (soldier?) and, on the far left of that same panel (immediately to the left of the guy in sunglasses) is a priest! Zow-eee. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-offensive-chick-tract/254062/16 "2004-07-08T13:04:56Z")
So if I’m reading it right… If you convert to Christianity, then you’ll die immediately? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-offensive-chick-tract/254062/17 "2004-07-08T13:33:06Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > So if I’m reading it right… > > If you convert to Christianity, then you’ll die immediately? 😕 That’s pretty much my thinking, exactly. “God’s Free Love Gift” is [sub]hold for really offensive comparison… wait for it…[/sub] basically a 1940s German shower. Yikes. Doesn’t he have access to a proofreader who can point out the potential for misreading in these things? ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-offensive-chick-tract/254062/18 "2004-07-08T13:33:14Z")
Umm… Now, I hate/pity Jack Chick as much as anyone, but why is this cartoon so offensive? It seems to be saying “God created the world, forbade the tree, mankind fell, God walled off the garden, but saved anyone who came to him, via his son, but most people rejected this offer and wallowed in sin.” I don’t agree, but isn’t that a reasonable if oversimplified interpretation of the standard christian message? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-offensive-chick-tract/254062/19 "2004-07-08T13:35:06Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Bloody heck - he thinks all american indians can’t read? If he did, I don’t think he would put the text about “God’s free love gift”, the Bible verses, and the big block of text at the end. Stretching it just a trace, are we? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-offensive-chick-tract/254062/20 "2004-07-08T13:40:49Z")
> [@paulberserker](#): > > How come God ain’t gots no face? He was shaving when they called… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-offensive-chick-tract/254062.md?page=2)