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scombrid · 02-18-2002, 09:06 AM

from <a href="http://home.post-dispatch.com/channel/pdweb.nsf/TodaySunday/86256A0E0068FE5086256B63004233CD?OpenDocument&PubW rapper=Metro" target="_blank">this</a> :

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Particularly disturbing to Musaji and other parents were hostile questions and palm-size booklets distributed at the end of the meeting. The booklets show comic-strip drawings of a Muslim threatening to kill a Christian. In the end, the Christian converts the Muslim to Christianity.

Might this chick tract be the comic-strip in question:

<a href="http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0042/0042_01.asp" target="_blank">tract</a>

While we generally find Chick's, and other similar bullshit, laughable, it is disturbing that there are nutters out there that by into it.

Edited to add why I put this in MRD:

The Christians in the tract discredit Islam based on the fact that it was nothing more than a modified pagan religion. Isn't Mythraism, err ahh, Christianity the same thing?

[ February 18, 2002: Message edited by: scombrid ]</p>

Egoinos · 02-18-2002, 03:57 PM

You know the A4 comic books that Jack Chick writes? Has anyone else ever noticed that in every one of those, there is always a picture of a half-naked, rather muscular man? Is there something Chick is repressing? Hmmmm

GunnerJ · 02-18-2002, 04:51 PM

I know I'm gonna get crucified (ahem

) for saying this, but some of those comics are cool, in a sinister way. I read Alberto online, and there was a hint of a plot you could sort of get into. I mean, it's all BS, but if you think of Alberto being like Billy from Xenogears, escaping an evil religious conspiracy, it can be fun; but like all fantasies, make sure you know it's fake.

Euromutt · 02-20-2002, 05:17 AM

What I found intriguing was that Chick based his anti-Freemason tract, "<a href="http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0093/0093_01.asp" target="_blank">The Curse of Baphomet</a>", on the same load of bollocks presented by Philippe IV of France to justify wiping out the Knights Templar in the 14th century. (The fact that Philippe, and many other crowned heads of Europe, owed the Templars serious amounts of money had nothing to do with it, good grief, no.)

Net Rover · 02-20-2002, 05:38 AM

Ya know, having read many Chick tracks for the entertainment of it, I came perilously close to concluding that they are parody and that Jack Chick himself is the biggest, most elaborate troll imaginable. After all, what intelligent person could possibly take them seriously? Well, then it dawned on me...

As a former fundie, I used to actually believe that stuff myself. I remember reading <a href="http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0055/0055_01.asp" target="_blank">Big Daddy?</a> back in 1977 or so and believing that it was an accurate depiction of secular scholars. Whew, the vapid vacuum the human mind is capable of!

GunnerJ · 02-20-2002, 11:26 AM

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...Jack Chick himself is the biggest, most elaborate troll imaginable.

LOL! Great choice of words.

butswana · 02-20-2002, 11:43 AM

My brother ordered a free sample box a tracts so he could make his own. Of coarse his were not christian friendly. I'd give a link to his website, but he hasn't updated it in so long that I'm embarassed.

Oxidizing Material · 02-20-2002, 12:22 PM

But they're anti-tracts! Tell us anyway! Pleeeease?

SecularClown · 02-21-2002, 12:39 AM

There is a great rebuttal to Chick's "Big Daddy" tract available at:

<a href="http://www.geocities.com/phineasbg2/wyd.html" target="_blank">http://www.geocities.com/phineasbg2/wyd.html</a>

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"Do unto others before they do unto you"

notto · 02-21-2002, 03:26 AM

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Originally posted by SecularClown:
<strong>There is a great rebuttal to Chick's "Big Daddy" tract available at:

<a href="http://www.geocities.com/phineasbg2/wyd.html" target="_blank">http://www.geocities.com/phineasbg2/wyd.html</a>

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"Do unto others before they do unto you"</strong>

This is nicely done.

Christian Student - "He's crushing me with logic! That's of the Devil!"

LOL

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02-18-2002, 03:57 PM	#2
Egoinos Regular Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 423	You know the A4 comic books that Jack Chick writes? Has anyone else ever noticed that in every one of those, there is always a picture of a half-naked, rather muscular man? Is there something Chick is repressing? Hmmmm

02-18-2002, 04:51 PM	#3
GunnerJ Banned Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: a place where i can list whatever location i want Posts: 4,871	I know I'm gonna get crucified (ahem ) for saying this, but some of those comics are cool, in a sinister way. I read Alberto online, and there was a hint of a plot you could sort of get into. I mean, it's all BS, but if you think of Alberto being like Billy from Xenogears, escaping an evil religious conspiracy, it can be fun; but like all fantasies, make sure you know it's fake.

02-20-2002, 05:17 AM	#4
Euromutt Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: The Netherlands (the Kingdom of the Dammed) Posts: 687	What I found intriguing was that Chick based his anti-Freemason tract, "<a href="http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0093/0093_01.asp" target="_blank">The Curse of Baphomet</a>", on the same load of bollocks presented by Philippe IV of France to justify wiping out the Knights Templar in the 14th century. (The fact that Philippe, and many other crowned heads of Europe, owed the Templars serious amounts of money had nothing to do with it, good grief, no.)

02-20-2002, 05:38 AM	#5
Net Rover Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Austin, Texas Posts: 60	Ya know, having read many Chick tracks for the entertainment of it, I came perilously close to concluding that they are parody and that Jack Chick himself is the biggest, most elaborate troll imaginable. After all, what intelligent person could possibly take them seriously? Well, then it dawned on me... As a former fundie, I used to actually believe that stuff myself. I remember reading <a href="http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0055/0055_01.asp" target="_blank">Big Daddy?</a> back in 1977 or so and believing that it was an accurate depiction of secular scholars. Whew, the vapid vacuum the human mind is capable of!

02-20-2002, 11:43 AM	#7
butswana Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Indianapolis, IN Posts: 1,804	My brother ordered a free sample box a tracts so he could make his own. Of coarse his were not christian friendly. I'd give a link to his website, but he hasn't updated it in so long that I'm embarassed.

02-20-2002, 12:22 PM	#8
Oxidizing Material Banned Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Somewhere where I don't know where I am Posts: 2,069	But they're anti-tracts! Tell us anyway! Pleeeease?

02-21-2002, 12:39 AM	#9
SecularClown New Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 1	There is a great rebuttal to Chick's "Big Daddy" tract available at: <a href="http://www.geocities.com/phineasbg2/wyd.html" target="_blank">http://www.geocities.com/phineasbg2/wyd.html</a> ----- "Do unto others before they do unto you"

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