SON and a WITCH! 2 new tracts from Chick expand on old themes.

The BBQ Pit
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Old Sickie Chickie is back to releasing tracts on time, at the beginning of every odd-numbered month. (This is a long-standing pattern, for most of the online history.) This time he has two to share with us. One of them expands very much on a theme only briefly touched upon in one of his old full-sized color-comics. You see, sometime back in the ‘70’s (the other) Jack informed us that the actual victims of the executions in Salem were non-witches set up by a least one real practitioner. Now we get to see a full story that presents a two-year scheme during a vacation from Europe by Old Nick. JtC carefully includes the Inquisition, which he (and practically no one else) claims took 67 millions of victims over the centuries. In fact, we get to see Jack-the-Sick put words into the mouth of a pope. This is the ultimate “I see what you did there” moment, and it’s on panel 19 B. (The official tract panel-counting convention is to count the front cover as page 1.)

One difference in the expansion of the supposed expose is that Tituba, the slave who was the instigator of the young girls scheme, does get to physically suffer, although not die, in the resulting hysteria.

There is much to comment upon here, but I’ll keep notes while seeing what others spot that I may have missed, and avoid interfering with fresh perspectives that way.

“Satan Comes to Salem”

Born Wild is not quite as broadly innovative by comparison. Chick has repeatedly shown young, unsaved kids as uber-horrible brats, going out of their way to be walking incarnations of evil. There are a few innovations here, though, and I’ll get back to the thread for them.

It’s predictable that young Dexter gets “saved” and even more predictable that he instantly turns into a near-perfect angel immediately. The most entertaining panel is Connie’s horrified reaction to the good news. (Hmmm… “Good news” – Unintentional wordplay there!) She would rather have her son keep getting worse than get religion! You could already tell from panel 2B, the first panel of the story that Connie starts out as being unsaved herself. The beverage glass is a dead giveaway. It’s clearly meant to hold an alcoholic drink, and that’s a running theme in Chick’s portrayal of unsaved folks.

BTW, a special Darwin Award should go to Dexter’s uncle, for stealing from the mob.

The timing of the release of a new tract or two may be back on track, but the issuing of Battle Cry is still chronically late. It was only last night or this morning that the new bimonthly newsletter appeared, and I find that a shame, since he almost always explores his motivation for a new tract. You can read his emerging angst over modern kids here under “A special message from Jack Chick.”

- The Other White Jack

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As a youth minister, I just have to say (for the first time ever) OMFG*!* Did you see that “special message from Jack Chick”?

For those of you who don’t want their retinas gunked up:

He says “Africa is going muslim” (is there a winner-take-all referendum coming up?), and:

Yeah, they might as well spend WWIII laughing…

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Thank you for the direct link, digs.

Yeah, Chick is convinced that once the SCOTA rulings on Compulsory prayer in public schools and forced Bible reading went into effect, NO public school kids without a Bible-oriented family have even HEARD OF Jesus, except as a little kid in an ancient creche or maybe the name used to cuss.

In panel 15B Dexter claims not to know anything about Jesus.

In Panel 18B Dexter has never before heard that Jesus “died for [us]” whether as a man-only or as part of God incarnated as a man.

Lack of belief is one thing. Never having heard of the concepts is another.

I’d really like to see these grand assumptions JtC repeatedly makes challenged.

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Weird. I can’t wait to see what tripe Chick publishes if Romney wins the election this year. America’s going communist, Africa’s going Muslim? What lie will he tout?

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I hate to break this to you, Monty, but…

"“America’s been taken over by a modern-day form of Baal worship!”

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I’m an atheist and a mother, and I was an atheist before I was a mother.

As I raised my daughter, she occasionally asked me questions about religion and spirituality. I likened God to Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. I allowed her to go to church with her friends, if she wanted to. I also made sure that she knew of the stories/parables in the Bible, and its recounting of various historical events, because I think that such knowledge is necessary in our time and culture, and also nice to know when reading or watching a movie or otherwise enjoying pop culture.

I think that it’s just about impossible to raise a child in the US and NOT have that child exposed to the basic concepts of Christianity. I think that what old JC is all lathered up about is the fact that some children are not INDOCTRINATED in his very own brand of Christianity.

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Man, I don’t get that from their insurance commercials at all. :confused:

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I recognize that this board is a big (virtual) place, and that different people find different things interesting, but do we really need a new thread every time this moron publishes another piece of hateful drivel?

Couldn’t we maybe have an omnibus Jack Chick thread, something along the lines of the “Stupid Republican idea of the day” thread? Then everyone who feels the need for a fresh expression of outrage at each new tract would have somewhere to go. Hell, these Pit threads have become so lame that there’s no real justification for them even being in the Pit anymore; they should be in MPSIMS.

Hamlet made a similar point a decade ago, and yet someone still feels the need to trot out a new thread every fucking time. Do you people have Jack Chick on your Google alerts or something? Get a life.

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I’ve seen that lame tract before. What I was getting at is what kind of tripe Chick would be posting alluding to what evil would be “ruling the world” if Romney does win.

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At the very least he’s consistent. The 68m figure for the inquisition victims has remained unchanged since at least 1988.

The Death Cookie

He is also tacitely admitting that there haven’t been any additional victims from the New and Improved Secret Catholic Inquisition in these past 24 years!

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I’m with you on that, Lynn. He stews about graduates not being able to thank Jesus in the assembly. I gather that those who do never even bother to consider those who don’t share their beliefs. They don’t make sure everybody understands that it’s a personal statement. They announce everybody present that the original “J.C.” is responsible for everybody’s success. For some strange reason Jews, Muslims, etc., are not properly appreciative of being shoved onto the bandwagon.

It’s an idea. While we’re at it, we could have an omnibus thread for everybody complaining about “unnecessary” threads.

BTW, thank you for contributing here. :smiley:

First, that thread shows a lot of dissenting views to consider.

And second, it is true that there has been a new thread every fucking time a new tract or pair of tracts comes out.

Except, of course, for those times there has not been one. :stuck_out_tongue:

No, I don’t have anything on Google alerts. I may start using it for local community (3D) matters. Thank you for cluing me in.

Sometimes I recall that the beginning of a month is the beginning of a bi-month, and it occurs to me to check his site that very day. That’s after really strong priorities: certain places I go every day. Sometimes, though, I forget or am simply not in much of a hurry. Sorry if my actual situation does not match your deep concern about what you think it is.