Y’know, just when it seems that ol’ Jack T. [del] Sick[/del] Chick is starting to run out of ideas, he comes up with a tract with the entire action taking place in heck. Anything else is a flashback, or description of past events.
The main thrust of this tract’s “logic” is to make a point using the Satanic POV. This, I’m sure, is unique for a Chick tract, but C. S. Lewis did something very parallel in * The Screwtape Letters *. And good old Clive Stapes actually did it rather well.
And I wonder: Did whatsisJack perchance actually read Lewis? I can sort of see one of his friends persuading him that Lewis satire, if not allegorical fiction, would be safe to read.
Levels in hell is not something Chick-Little has used before, except in “A Demon’s Nightmare” – and we never saw any humans in heck in that one, only demons getting their come-uppance – downward! Maybe Jerk had always feared that it would be too liberal an approach, and not scare people enough. You know, they perhaps would figure that they will have earned only the mildest form of hell. Perhaps the idea is that everyone in Basic Training-Hell ends up in the same Lake of Fire anyway, so the temporary difference would not really matter. (It’s clear enough from the tract that Judgment Day has not yet transpired.) While we are on the subject, it never made much sense for Satan to be ruling from heck-fire. Sure, maybe he and his demons are immune to that fire (although that’s contradicted, at least for demons, in “a Demon’s Nightmare”) but the Lake of Fire would burn everyone, including him.
You would think that even JTC would have more sense than to have Old Nick think that heaven was his with “God’s Son” destroyed. Seems to me that there would still be two out of three left to contend with.
Was that Fang that the demon urged not to pet? For a demon he seems almost polite here, BTW.
Could anyone be stupid enough to try, though?!
In general, many of the tracts portray heck and Satan and his demons in such a silly way that I wonder what really goes on in the author’s mind. I would never risk muting an important point with silliness.
What say you?