Chick Tracts
Jack Chick is a mysterious, reclusive artist who has dominated the “scare you silly” genre of gospel tracts. These tracts have been popular because, theoretically, people tend to read them for the illustrated stories and then end up saved as a result.
In reality, the main purpose of these tracts is to keep fundy children lying awake at night on the lookout for demons that might be sneaking into their room to make make them gay or (worse yet) tempt them to play Dungeons & Dragons games.
There are many life lessons to be learned from Chick Tracts. Hurricane Katrina was caused by America not supporting Israel. Stories about the Tooth Fairy and Santa Clause make kids not believe in Jesus. Halloween candy contains deadly razor blades and poison placed by witches to want to make kids into human sacrifices.
How could the scores of check-out clerks, gas station attendants, and waitresses who receive these little gems possibly avoid being saved after reading such tales?
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Oh, wow. I needed a good belly-laugh this morning.
Why don’t you go fight something that is actually WORTH fighting against instead of hurting the very cause of Christ. Yeah, so he is not perfect. That’s why men didn’t write the Bible. SO instead of criticizing, why not post tracts you DO approve of?
Oh yeah, cuz you’re a HATER.
“Men didn’t write the Bible.” Hilarious! And who do you think wrote all of it down? Why do you think the authors’ names are the names of many of the books?
also what couldn’t make a jack chick tract complete without a 1, conspiracy about the vatican 2, gay terrorism 3,prejudice against muslims 4, and what i thought was really messed up, the guy who was honest and nice still goes to hell and the bastard who gets “saved” at the last minute still goes to heaven
You mean like The Prodigal Son and his Older Brother?
When traveling I used to raid the tract-racks for chick tracks. Nothing like comics depicting various and sundry lurid and verbotten activities to titillate a kid! I recently received one of the more embarassing ones at work from a customer. I commend their willingness to hand out the tract, but I quickly threw it away lest an unbeliever see it. That’s not a good commentary on the genre.
Hey, I used to love these as a kid. At least it was something entertaining to read during the sermon. LOL!
Yes, Chick tracts. Sadly, even though I was never IFB, one of our churches certainly had fundy leanings and gave these out at their Halloween judgment houses. It traumatized me for quite some time in my childhood.
I think it’s quite ironic how fundies talk spout off everything regarding modesty and the whole “if a woman was sexually assaulted ’cause she wore too-tight pants, it’s all her fault” way of thinking, and yet they’re perfectly fine with 4-letter words being replaced with !@#*& and company and having people standing before God on Judgment Day in the nude. Something’s not quite right here.
I would like to thank Jack Chick for opening my eyes to just how ridiculous some of the fundy ideas were.
“Halloween candy contains deadly razor blades and poison placed by witches to want to make kids into human sacrifices.”
Hey, how did you know what I did Halloween night?
There are only about two cases on record of children being poisoned by Halloween candy, and in both cases the poisoners were members of the victims’ own families who used Halloween as a cover.
Halloween is actually one of the safest nights of the year.
Who can ever forget the Chick tract, THE GAY BLADE? In all my life, I have yet to see any gay person who looked/acted like the one with the limp wrist, sappy facial expression, etc. Or, wait, okay, I HAVE seen people on occasion who look pretty drippy, but it never occurred to me that a slouch posture, sad expression, or limp hand denoted homosexuality. Why can’t *I* be as discerning as a Chick tract???
OK for one thing, Christians that give the tracts along with candy on Halloween night are not “judging”. They are using the occassion to witness and introduce the gospel possibly for the first time to those children and their families. Instead of hiding in their houses and pretending they are not at home because they are “against” Halloween, like some Christians do, or go to “Autumn celebration” or something like that at their church, where they fellowship with other Christians and the unsaved children and families are ignored. Would Jesus do any of those things? No he wouldn’t, that’s why he was accussed of being a winebibber and a glutton by the Pharisees, because he socialized with those people and didn’t ignore them like the Pharisees. The Pharisees felt like he should’ve been hanging with them, instead of with “publicans and sinners”. As far as the tracts themselves, yea they can get a little wild and graphic, but with what children are allowed to watch today on Nick and Disney which is posed as being “safe” they are no worse. Besides that, “and by fear of the Lord men depart from evil” Prov. 16:6b, sometimes that’s what it takes, but if the person gets saved then praise the Lord for it! I first read a Chick tract when I was in grade school long ago, and the picture of hell on the last page did scare me, and for the first time I knew how God felt about and how he judged it. The church I was attending never mentioned it. That picture stuck with me to my adult years, and I encountered Chick tracts and the comic books again as an adult, and got saved as a result, so hey if it gets the job done, then praise the Lord for Jack Chick! I do, if you don’t!
That explains alot. Thank you Mr. Chick and dad. So you two are the reason I feared standing next to my bed. I was always scared something would grab me from under my bed, that’s why I would take a flying leap, couldn’t get close you know. The more I realize, the more I hate those religios bastards.