Part of the imagery is what I call the Mark Trail rule:
Sideburns = evil.
Fuck if I know.
Do you mean “Hi There!” from the '70’s, spoken about two or four months back on SDMB?
- “Jack”
Nothing really to add to the discussion; just wanted to make sure that my post #6,666 went in this thread.
Oh, and the tiny flying Jesus was awesome.
On thing that puzzles me is that I seldom see a knock-down, drag-out debate between equally hard-core members of different denominations. Instead, they talk past each other and target their rhetoric at the fence-sitters etc. out there in media-land.
Ooh, that’d be cool! Put Jack Chick into the cage with Bill Donohue and pop some corn! More fun than a bum-fight! 
Don’t you just love how Farmer John is just waiting for his chance to pontificate? Pounce! Pounce! You Ceasar faker!! :rolleyes:
Gah, I think I’ve mentioned it on the boards before, but I used to give these things out as a fundamentalist Christian teenager. Perhaps I should start a “Ask the…” thread.
Now days, I can’t even imagine what I was thinking.
Was that before you got corrupted by Alice Cooper? 
Not that hard to understand. Teenagers are often given to enthusiasm for causes and, in most cases, have yet to develop critical thinking skills. You might have been a Moonie if they had got to you first.
Oh yeah baby. Now if only the Master had gotten to me first… < growl >
Thanks. But there’s still times that I’m amazed I developed any critical thinking skills at all. For in our household (long before the conversion even), doing anything but blithely following along was ripe for severe whoop-ass punishment.
I’m surprised that I didn’t think the Easter Bunny was real 'cause my mother felt I should retain the “innocence of childhood” as long as possible. :rolleyes:
Well, everybody’s hiding something.
Hey wait a second… if faithfool used to hand out Chick comics, why doesn’t EVERYBODY give out comics?!
I don’t know. I was reading along, kind of enjoying this one as a good, second-tier Chick-ism - stupid without being dull, bigoted without being too hateful, and with the occasional outright whopper to keep us all on our toes -
And got all the way to the end. And sighed, in disappointment.
A Chick tract without a “HAW! HAW! HAW!”? What a let-down.
Regards,
Shodan
I’ve got a few old Blackhawks and maybe an an Aquaman or two you can have.
HALLELUJAH!
Our Father who art in Atlantis, shallow be Thy name. Bless me and keep me in the watchful eyes of your holy winged messengers, who are Andre and Olaf and Chop-Chop forever, except for the ‘New Blackhawks’ fiasco and that one Chaykin series. In the name of Mera and Tula and Lady Blackhawk, Amen.
Heh. I see that several folks have given a version of such a bizarre question.
This is one of the reasons why I don’t try to put out every comment that comes to mind when I start a thread like this one. I feel that sometimes there would be a “pre-emptive” effect* in doing so, and its much more fun to let others pick up on it, while committing to memory my own words. (The other reason, of course, is laziness.:o)
Here goes: If Jack T. Chick is the wisest man on earth, why isn’t everyone a lunatic-fringe fundie?
Something’s missing here…
[Voice of George Costanza’s girlfriend’s father]
Something’s missing, all right…
[/Voice] 
- Based on the feeling that perhaps only one person will be inclined to follow up on that angle, and they might not if something similar to what they were going to say was already said. Once many people have responded, though, it seems an unnecessary concern.
- “Jack”
Indeed the “popcorn” metaphor was on the tip of my tongue. But like you said, we’re talking pay-per-view.
I remember back when Muslims were going apeshit over The Satanic Verses, which was shortly after Christians went monkeypoop over The Last Temptation of Christ, I said, “Can’t we get 2 groups of angry Christians and Muslims together in an arena somewhere and let 'em battle each other with books?”
But I think the reason we don’t see more interfaith debates is that the various fundamentalists are afraid of each other. Much easier to look down with righteous superiority on the evil Secularists and play the victim or the tolerance hypocrisy card when the going gets rough.
For a while, JTC actualy tried to portray Constantine as the first pope! :rolleyes: Needless to say, there are tons of historical reasons to reject that as some pretty silly trash. He hasn’t repeated that claim recently, although he has had plenty of occasions to do so. And so perhaps some things are too crazy for even Chickie to keep repeating.
- “Jack”
Based, IIRC, on the facts that
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Constantine, as emperor, held the title of Pontifex Maximus, which the popes later assumed;
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It was Constantine who called the First Council of Nicaea of 325 A.D. that put Christian doctrine in substantially the form still followed by Orthodox, Catholic, and (most) Protestant Christians.
Of course, the Bishop of Rome at that time was a different person, Silvester I (who did not attend the Council but sent two legates).
Nah. Just wait three days. It’ll rise again.