Chick publications

[nancyknits]

My grandson is Baptist and has been sending me the anticatholic Chick booklets. I have known for years that these are bad but I don’t know what to tell this young man. Is there any information about them that I could give him?

 

[reteeks21]

My grandson is Baptist and has been sending me the anticatholic Chick booklets. I have known for years that these are bad but I don’t know what to tell this young man. Is there any information about them that I could give him?

I would ask him to research some of the theories he has regarding the rcc and see if there is any foundational proof that Chick is right. Chick makes some outlandish claims, and maybe your grandson should know where he gets his info, and that might enlighten him a little bit.

Besides that, maybe ask him to stop sending them to you?

Sorry this is happening to you

 

[Roman_Catholic_1]

I would ask him politely to stop sending you the articles. Tell him that you are well aware of them and have read them already (if you in fact have).

God bless

 

[twopekinguys]

Here is some great information from right here at CAF, about responding to these tracts.

catholic.com/library/sr_chick_tracts_p3.asp

IMO, these tracts don’t really serve a purpose other than to make the receiver mad, and the giver the opportunity to feel superior (which they aren’t)

Communication is key. Personally, I would thank him for being worried about my soul, and where I’m going to spend eternity, but I feel I am on the right path with the RCC which Christ himself founded.

Sometimes, we need to agree to disagree.

I know you’re in a difficult place with this, and you are in my prayers.

 

[JonNC]

My grandson is Baptist and has been sending me the anticatholic Chick booklets. I have known for years that these are bad but I don’t know what to tell this young man. Is there any information about them that I could give him?

May I ask how old he is? Is he acting on his own, or possibly as a surregate for an older relative or friend? That might be important for how to handle it.

Jon

 

[nancyknits]

My grandson is 21, married with a child, and thinks he wants to be a preacher. May I say that all of the suggestions I have read have been very helpful. Thanks.
Nancy

 

[Soutane]

My grandson is Baptist and has been sending me the anticatholic Chick booklets. I have known for years that these are bad but I don’t know what to tell this young man. Is there any information about them that I could give him?

I would advise him that you find these booklets to be offensive,hurtful and that they constitute hate literature.I would also advise him that should these missives reflect the true depth of his faith that perhaps he should consider another calling.

 

[Eucharisted]

My grandson is Baptist and has been sending me the anticatholic Chick booklets. I have known for years that these are bad but I don’t know what to tell this young man. Is there any information about them that I could give him?

There’s an article on Chick tracts at www.catholic.com

You can tell your grandson to stop sending you the tracts, too, if they bother you.

 

[Auriel]

My relatives were a huge eclectic mix of religions growing up. And I do mean eclectic.

One set of relatives were Independent Baptist who probably had everything Jack Chic published. They bought me a lot of them, I had all of the Alberto series. Even in elementary school I knew there was something not quite right about Jack. I also knew if my relatives would pass out the good candy at Halloween and not just Chic tracts, they might not get egged and papered every year. But that’s another story.

Anyway, what I am getting at is just try to understand his point as well, He would not pass them out if he did not share those beliefs. And he is giving them to you out of love, even though Chic is not very loving. He does not want his grandma to go to hell. Those people believe all Catholics are hell bound.

I would start off with something very positive. Tell him how much you love him, and that you are happy that he wants to dedicate his life to God. But let him how you view those tracts. And maybe even let him know hurtful they are too you.

I wonder how he feels about the early Saints. People forget we share them. They were the first missionaries. Try to find beliefs that you both have in common. That way the door is always open for you guys, never nailed shut.

 

[Roamin_Xian]

My grandson is 21, married with a child, and thinks he wants to be a preacher. May I say that all of the suggestions I have read have been very helpful. Thanks.
Nancy

I would advise that unless he can back up Jack Chick’s spurious claims with both Biblical quotes from Jesus and mainstream historical sources, then he should cease to forward these materials.

I’d also to advise him to focus on a career that would be good for sustaining a family. Unless he becomes pastor of a mega church, he’ll be in for some hard times.

 

[Jerry_Parker]

I have just finished reading yet another excellent, succint short book by Jimmy Akin (of Catholic Answers, yet!), The Nightmare World of Jack Chick (San Diego: Catholic Answers, 2008). It is, if anything, even better than another Jimmy (James) Akin favourite of mine, his booklet on Mormons (i.e. L.D.S. Mormons). For those disturbed by tracts and other publications from Jack Chick, it is very worth reading for yourself and also passing along Akin’s small (and inexpensive) book to those whom these publications and their ideas influence all too strongly or in whom they give rise to needless doubts about the Holy Catholic Fatih.

Jack Chick himself, apart from the nefarious impact on him of Alberto Rivera, is very much an acolyte of Dr. Peter S. Ruckman, with whose views he is in total agreement. If you know how to counter “Ruckmanism”, then you know how to confront “Jack Chickery”. I always was sceptical, to some degree, about Jack Chick, though I reserved some admiration for his more truly evangelical tracts, e.g. the famous “This Is Your Life”, one which, indeed, can have a positive impact on unbelievers without so many lies and exaggerations. In person, I heard Alberto Rivera preach (in Montréal) twice (as also there I heard Ruckman, in person, on two or three occasions), which only deepened my suspicions, since Rivera (unlike the surely sincere Ruckman) seemed such a “con-man” in his pulpit style, and also had a disturbingly demonic air about him. Rivera was forceful and strikingly good-looking (an “handsome devil”), and he knew how to manipulate those who heard him. I have subscribed for years to “Battle Cry”, Jack Chick’s own periodical, which is useful for keeping up to date on this deluded crusader for all that Fundamentalistic, “fundamentally wrong” error.

Anyway, I can aver with full confidence just how balanced and truthful is Jimmy Akin’s portrayal of Jack Chick and Chick’s “faith comics” empire. (Akin even interviewed this reclusive huckster!) Get Akin’s book on Chick and, for sure, you will have a good head-start on dealing with “Jack Chickery” and its religious trickery!

 

[Bob_Crowley]

There’s an article on Chick tracts at www.catholic.com

You can tell your grandson to stop sending you the tracts, too, if they bother you.

I’d just print off a couple of the articles suggested by others here and give them to him to read. If he thinks it’s fair to shove the Chick tracts onto you, then it’s fair for you to give him rebutting arguments.

The main thing at this stage is to get him to see the Chick tracts for the garbage they are.

 

[dsears]

Just ask him to stop. he should respect you enough to do so. Even as a Protestant I find Chick tracks offensives (In fact I stopped going to a Christian book store because they sold them and pushed literature of that type.) You might also want to give him some of the rebuttal arguments on this website. Also pray for him. Pray with him. That might just change his mind.

 

[ashnicole]

the church that my mom made me go to when i was growing up used to pass those booklets out a lot. the church was UCC back then, and now they are non denominational but some people in the church still pass them out. I remember practically getting kicked out of youth group for refusing to pass them out (my views were always different than everyone else’s). and its funny that i saw this post tonite because 2 days ago i was in wawa and got hounded by some lady who ended up putting a chick booklet in my purse . and this was after i told the lady that i wasnt interested in what it was that she was passing out, and that i was on a very important phone call. the lady kept talking to me talking to me and trying to get me to pray the sinners prayer and that it wasnt too late for my soul to be saved from eternity in hell, etc. i think that if i wasnt on the phone i would have flipped, especially after she shoved the thing in my purse.

but anyways, its always harder to deal when its a relative. i would just ask him to stop sending them to you, and he should respect you enough to do so because they are hurtful. but i also would say i’ll listen to you only if you in turn listen to my views on the subject. most of the time the latter will get them to stop. but hopefully one day he’ll see them for what they really are.

 

[ufamtobie]

My grandson is Baptist and has been sending me the anticatholic Chick booklets. I have known for years that these are bad but I don’t know what to tell this young man. Is there any information about them that I could give him?

Hi Nancyknits,

Simple, send him some Catholic books, Book of the Saints, and Most Importantly Have the Church do a Mass for him ASAP

Ufam Tobie