Honestly Jack Chick has said many things. Some things are correct. Some are totally incorrect. The question is how many people has he lead to faith and how many Catholics have become scared of their own beliefs? Is it ok to be truthful on one hand and not on another? He obvioulsy has good intentions and isn’t being purposely deceptive. However, is that enough?
When I started this thread I didn’t know a lot about Jack Chick - I’d seen the tracts and had read a few and I didn’t like them and I wondered why this “Jack Chick” was printing tracts that had so many errors. I like to think the best of people so I was very confused. What was going on? Now, I think that he is aware of the errors. They have been pointed out to him ad nauseum. The teachings of the Catholic Church are so easy to find. They are right there in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. They can be googled and binged. They are there and yet Jack Chick continues on. He is either doing this intentionally or he is the most stupid person in the entire world and has been duped. IMO it is the former.
Awhile ago I asked if it would be OK to use Jack Chick tracts if they brought a person to God. Several people answered; most said “no”; one said that if a person finds a tract and checks it out and finds God, God is found “in spite” of the tract. One person has replied in a somewhat vague way.
Do the ends really justify the means?
This morning I was talking to a friend and she asked me if the Eighth Commandment has an asterisk at the end. This is what she meant:
*
"Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor
except when you are trying to bring him/her to God."*
There is something wrong there. As far as I know, the Eighth Commandment does not have an asterisk at the end and even if it did or does it certainly does not refer us to “except when you are trying to being him/her to God.”
It can’t be justified. Errors are errors. LIES ARE LIES. TRUTH IS TRUTH IS TRUTH.
Faith is a hard thing to hold onto, at least for me. People tend to believe what they read, even if it’s on a subconscious level. IMO Jack Chick has done an enormous amount of damage. He lies. He picks and chooses scripture. He calls the Catholic Church “the Whore.” This is the Church that was founded by Jesus Christ Himself!!
When Jack Chick prints, publishes, and distributes his tracts he is insulting me, other Catholics, other Christians, and every other person in the world who is attempting to discover the Truth.
He is also insulting Jesus Christ. **HE IS INSULTING GOD!! **
I have tried to post this three times. Each time it gets deleted. I’m going to keep trying until it works.