He’s a shyster; he deliberately uses information which is demonstrably factually unsound to (try to )coerce people to agree with his worldview.
Wait, wasn’t it Ra that was the sun god, not Osiris?
Besides, as we all know, the US military killed Ra with a nuclear weapon. ::d&r::
Geraldo’s brother?
Hey! Leave Lillian Gish out of this!
Geez, where’ve you been? Dunno what particular mine shaft you’ve been inhabiting the bottom of for the last few years, but Chick Tracts aren’t only bought by redneck trailer park trash–I know lots of upscale, upmarket, middle and upper-middle-class folks who buy them.
'Specially the Halloween one–that’s real popular among the whitebread suburbanites to hand out instead of Halloween candy.
Buy them? I’ve only ever seen the actual tracts, in the wild that is, littering the ground around a very small area. Who buys them?
A church I used to go to had them out in the lobby, for anyone to take.
Rivera claimed to be a former Jesuit, etc. However, he never even finished high school (for a scholarly order like the Jesuits, there’s no way he’d be accepted!), that the Catholic church was the Illuminati, etc.
Jesus 2000 - the first self-worshipping Jesus for the busy believer.
(KITH reference)
In addition to what’s already been said, he references his own publications as cites in his tracts. That’s just not right.
Anyone seen the newest Catholic rantMan In Black ?
This is after a few lackluster attempts but boy oh boy he’s getting back in gear alright
You forgot those guys that drive the little cars around at parades.
Thanks!
I had no idea the Pope was doing the work of the Egyptian sun-god Osirus. You learn something new every day.
H’uh?
The Man in Black is so inaccurate it’s ridiculous. I mean, Father DAMIEN??? D’uh!
Not to mention, a REAL priest would be extremely well-educated, and would be able to stomp this garbage Chick spews. Let’s start, shall we?
-Constantine-was NOT the “Last great Emperor”, and he was NEVER a POPE for crying out loud! He didn’t even convert until his deathbed!
-No KING was ever a Pope. And Popes never EVER claimed to be Christ on Earth.
-The KKK is notoriously anti-Catholic. For the Church to have behind them makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
That six-headed whore thing is cool, though.
(Also, the Rosary doesn’t worship anyone but God. The first stanza is straight from the Bible-what was said to Mary by the Angel Gabriel and what her cousin Elizabeth told her. Then the last part, says, ‘PRAY FOR US’-in other words, we aren’t praying to Mary, but asking HER to pray for us, which means that she worships God as do we. Chick is a dumbass).
Yup.
Let’s just say that his grasp on Kemetic religion is about as good as his grasp on Catholicism and D&D.
Do you mean Duane Gish the intelligent design proponent? Other than questionable debating tactics that possibly constitute lying, which commandment has he broken, I’m slightly confused.
Man, you should get one of those “I finally found Jesus, he was behind my couch the whole time” T-shirts. Maybe then he’d get the hint and start earning his keep.
The idea of slacker-Jesus is making me recall that Mr. Show musical sketch, “Jeepers Creepers.”
This is precisely me grievance about him. If he gaves cites to things that were publicly available and tried to explain his reasoning, we could better point out his errors in detail. As it is, when a Chick-proponent comes around (not that this happens too often) we have to settle for broad condemnations. Those work fine for those of us who can reject his reasoning easily, but it would be nice to know the specific reasons behind his rantings so we could discredit them with the fundie evangelicals who support him as well.
On a first date a couple years ago, I went to the girl’s house, and saw a bunch of Chick tracts lying on the floor.
Talk about a bad sign.
Oh, and you cannot have a Chick tract thread without mentioning
this classic.
Has anyone ever bothered to e-mail Jack Chick and correct his simple mistakes?
I would. (Like pointing out the correct name of the Sun God.)
You know, I always get a kick out of how easily persuaded the people in these tracts are. I seem to remember one where a Christian walks up to an Islamic fundamentalist and tells him, “Hey, Islam is wrong, you should be Christian.” The Muslim says, basically, “Well holy shit, I guess I was wrong. Now I’ll be a Christian.”
You get the feeling that you could walk up to Joe Fickle in a week or so, tell him, “Hey, Christianity is bogus. You should be worshipping the Holy Pickle God, Vlassic, unless you want to burn in a fiery abyss for all time”, and he’d believe you. I wonder if Senor Chick believes the world actually works the way he portrays it, or if it’s just a -ahem- “literary” device?
Jeff