Chick Tracks

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GEddie said:
In fairness, though, they are as hard on the Freemasons as they are on us, something most Protestants seem to be OK with. And though they hold the Catholic Church to have created both, they are likewise hard on the Watchtower and (since 2001) Islam.

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Also pretty hard on witchcraft/Satanism and like practices, using the all too common stereotype of “human sacrifice in modern witchcraft” (now that’s just unreasonably offending innocent Wiccans and others).
 
Hatikvah said:
Also pretty hard on witchcraft/Satanism and like practices, using the all too common stereotype of “human sacrifice in modern witchcraft” (now that’s just unreasonably offending innocent Wiccans and others).
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I haven’t seen the human sacrifice element used by them, the closest being some juvenile witch-wannabes trying to sacrifice someone’s cat on Halloween. Yeah, JTC is rather hard on keepers of Halloween, but that’s something they share with a lot of the “Fundamentalist” corner.

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GEddie said:
Not only still alive, but a new tract comes out about every two months. Presumably he’s got someone new doing the drawing.
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Another artist is known to have done some of his tracts. The other artist has a much more detailed and sophisticated style.
Wannano said:
We had an ex-Catholic (elderly) man who came to our church periodically and he used to hand them out to whomever would take one. To me it was hate literature and I don’t think most people took a second one from him!
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I don’t believe Chick or his followers really “hate,” though.

I think they really believe that if you’re a Catholic or if you don’t believe this and that you’re going to hell, and they really think they’re trying to help you.
 
GEddie said:
In fairness, though, they are as hard on the Freemasons as they are on us, something most Protestants seem to be OK with. And though they hold the Catholic Church to have created both, they are likewise hard on the Watchtower and (since 2001) Islam.
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They’re hard on everyone, outside of their very particular sub-branch theology.
signit said:
I don’t believe Chick or his followers really “hate,” though.

I think they really believe that if you’re a Catholic or if you don’t believe this and that you’re going to hell, and they really think they’re trying to help you.
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A person can hate AND still really think they’re trying to help you.

Christ-like love in not motivated by hate or reliant on bearing false witness (like Chick Tracks). Yes, a Chick Track giver may honestly trying to be helping you, but he’s doing so in an un-Christ-like manner.
 
pianistclare said:
Some people from a local Baptist church came to my door yesterday.
They asked about my faith, and I explained that I was a Roman Catholic, and that, in fact, I work fro the Church, so no worries.
Then pressed me with “But do actually know Jesus Christ, and have you ever spoken to Him in your heart?”
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They also ask if you accept the Lord Jesus as your personal Savior.
 
I actually stopped going to a restaurant because I found a plastic case I don’t know what the word is for it, of Chick tracts. You know where they put like business cards and stuff at the front? Well this was hidden in a corner so no one knew about it unless you went through a door and most people wouldn’t look there it made the manager very angry because he’s Catholic and so are most of the people that work there. Sometimes I find them in public restrooms you know I would like to think and I do think that most Protestants don’t believe those I think most Protestants think that Catholics may or may not be Christian and some are willing to give us the benefit of the doubt but that we’re wrong. Actually feel kind of bad for Jack Chick to be honest with you I’m not sure if he’s still alive I think he is
 
During my agnostic days as a youth I found them hilarious. I still do. 😃
 
Google “jack chick” and “lisa” to see his most disgusting tract. It’s still available even if it isn’t on the Jack Chick site.
 
I discovered Jack Chick tracts in 1971, thought they were hilarious, sent away for the whole collection in the 70s, including comic books. I periodically have checked in since then.
  • You have to admire his artwork, and story telling ability. He got across his point in a very readable, accessible medium, at extremely low cost, easy to pass on. In 1971, I had not seen the word “Catholic” and “Evangelism” in the same sentence. It still is very limited.
  • Yes, I am distressed by his hostility to the Catholic Faith, and many other persons.
  • Well…he does make sharp distinctions, about many things, sharp to the point sometimes of hurting. Everything is Black or White, This or That, Yes or No, etc. There are no shades of grey. I am bothered less by that, than by the current pressure to the opposite vice. In 2016 everything is sort of true this, but relative to that, kinda true sometimes, right or wrong to some degree, depending on the situation, with nothing false. We live in an anti-absolute culture, nothing is definitely true or false, right or wrong.
Chick represents errors, but the weakening errors of fading fundamentalism. I am not so concerned about the fewer Baptists who still hand out Chick Tracts, as I am about the local Baptist church that just flip-flopped on abortion and gay marriage. People with Chick’s mistakes are still around, but they won’t be teaching your kids in public school, writing articles for the daily newspaper, or suing the Little Sisters of the Poor.

There was something positive, solid, about Chick fundamentalists. They have often been replaced by non denominational types, whose main doctrinal creed is “Have a nice day”.
 
jane_doe said:
Yes, some individuals of Protestant churches still rely on such tactics.
Yes, some individuals of Catholic churches still rely on such tactics.
Yes, some individuals of Orthodox churches still rely on such tactics.
Yes, some individuals of non-Christian churches still rely on such tactics.
Yes, some individuals of atheist organization still rely on such tactics.

It’s a trend of sinful human beings.
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In the bold & underlined, I would like to understand what “tactics” you are referring too. thanks
 
pianistclare said:
Some people from a local Baptist church came to my door yesterday.
They asked about my faith, and I explained that I was a Roman Catholic, and that, in fact, I work fro the Church, so no worries.
Then pressed me with “But do actually know Jesus Christ, and have you ever spoken to Him in your heart?”

Yeah.
We have a lot of misinformation about other faiths.
So do they. 😦
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So as a former Sothern Baptist convert I am familiar with this line of questioning. what I like to respond with that yes I speak to Christ every time I pray, when I am in His presence when he is in the tabernacle, when He is present at the Mass both in word and body, blood, soul, and divinity, and especially when He is received in the Eucharist body, blood, soul, and divinity, Yea there is a personal relationship there.
 
Hatikvah said:
It should at least be obvious who believes in Jesus and who does not… we all know that Catholics believe in the same Jesus as other Christians. It is not the “Catholic Jesus” and the “Protestant Jesus,” it is “Jesus.”

But remember, some Evangelical groups are especially deep (and many Protestants getting deeper into, sadly) with the whole “everything that is not Evangelical Protestant is automatically an anti-God cult trying to take us to Hell!” scenario.

It’s ridiculous to maintain that even up till this era. It’s not the Middle Ages anymore. 🤷
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It is amazing how easily the great deceiver can work on the innocent
 
We get evangelists etc from the North who bring suitcases full of leaflets with them… The sight of the rosaries on my stall used to provoke them… I would smile and thank them and go on knitting, and tuck the leaflet out of sight…
 
wmscott said:
In the bold & underlined, I would like to understand what “tactics” you are referring too. thanks
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The tactics of trying to get people to come/stay to your viewpoint by portraying other beliefs falsely via cartoonizing / demonizing / lying / spinning etc.

This contrasts with a Christ-like approach of charity and honesty.
 
signit said:
Another artist is known to have done some of his tracts. The other artist has a much more detailed and sophisticated style.

I don’t believe Chick or his followers really “hate,” though.

I think they really believe that if you’re a Catholic or if you don’t believe this and that you’re going to hell, and they really think they’re trying to help you.
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None of us can say with certainty what they think or feel.

However, any right thinking human, who is well intentioned would stop and learn for themselves the real teachings of the Catholic Church. If you were trying to convince someone on your views it would help to learn what their beliefs are in the first place instead of spreading falsehoods about them.

It may not be hate that could be their motivation but I see a profound disrespect on their side.
 
jane_doe said:
The tactics of trying to get people to come/stay to your viewpoint by portraying other beliefs falsely via cartoonizing / demonizing / lying / spinning etc.

This contrasts with a Christ-like approach of charity and honesty.
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do you have any examples of Catholic publications that that i could see? thanks
 
wmscott said:
do you have any examples of Catholic publications that that i could see? thanks
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My post specifically says individuals. Do I really need to provide an example of a Catholic person mis-representing a (for example) Protestant belief?
 
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