Do Protestants take Chick tracts seriously?

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I mean, I guess I could see someone mistakenly agreeing with him that Catholics worship Mary as a goddess, but are there Protestants who actually believe him that there is a large computer at the Vatican that keeps track of every Protestant on earth?
 
I know it’s false - there’s certainly no large computer at the Vatican that tracks Protestants. It’s a punch-card machine from the 1930’s. 😉
 
namax91 said:
I mean, I guess I could see someone mistakenly agreeing with him that Catholics worship Mary as a goddess, but are there Protestants who actually believe him that there is a large computer at the Vatican that keeps track of every Protestant on earth?
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Why would we need a computer to track Protestants when we have a goddess to do it for us?
 
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I mean, I guess I could see someone mistakenly agreeing with him that Catholics worship Mary as a goddess, but are there Protestants who actually believe him that there is a large computer at the Vatican that keeps track of every Protestant on earth?
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No, we don’t.
 
And the vast majority of those who have heard of him think he needs to take the tinfoil hat off.

Seriously, the vatican can’t even control a few catholic american politicians, and people think they’re secretly running things?
 
Yup. I have never heard anything about Jack Chick except on CAF. Seems Catholics are more interested in him then non-Catholics are.
 
Back in the dark ages (late 60s :D) Chick was probably taken more seriously than now. There weren’t the resources to double check his allegations & there were books (like Babylon Mystery Religion) that backed him up.

Tho even as a teen I thought the illustrations were a little over-the-top.

I know 1 Protestant who passes out the tracts at her farmer’s market booth, but I’ve never seen any of the anti-Catholic ones. I think she knows she’d lose customers if she did.
 
As a Protestant, I read Chick tracts and thought they were outrageously wrong in what they contained. They were so obviously trying to smear the Catholic Church that I could not take them seriously. I came across them in the only “Christian” bookstore in my town. I haven’t seen one in years, except online, and then because of a post on CA.
 
There’s a man who every summer tries to distribute these at Hampton Beach, NH.
No one seems to want them, even for free. (With good reason) There is not an ounce of truth in those pamphlets.
 
Horrors! There’s another “artist” like Jack Chick (or his minion)?
 
Usige said:
Yup. I have never heard anything about Jack Chick except on CAF. Seems Catholics are more interested in him then non-Catholics are.
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That’s because Jack Chick tracts are left on the car windshield of Catholics while attending mass.
 
I really wish people would use the search feature before starting threads like this.
Jack Chick is part of the last disintegrating remnants of what was once fundamentalism in the US, KJV-only, independent Baptist. A small, cultic group getting smaller every day.
He’s nuts.
He’s crazy.
He doesn’t get any more notice among mainline Protestants than the local guy in your town wearing a sign and screaming to passerbys at an inter-section.
Seriously, can we stop giving this guy publicity on CAF?
 
I personally know quite a few Protestants that take them very seriously. They’re popular for a reason. These people are mostly Independent Fundamentalist Baptists.
 
jlhargus said:
That’s because Jack Chick tracts are left on the car windshield of Catholics while attending mass.
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I guess I’m lucky enough to live in a part of the world where that has never happened. I had to go look them up when I kept encountering reference on CAF. I have never in my life seen one “in the wild”. That is as either a Catholic or former Protestant. Guess I’ll consider it a blessing that Protestants and Catholics in my area get along (or simply ignore each other)
 
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I personally know quite a few Protestants that take them very seriously. They’re popular for a reason. These people are mostly Independent Fundamentalist Baptists.
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Even among IFBs he’s small.
There were three branches of IFB at one time, all associated with the leaders. Bob Jones, Jerry Falwell, and Jack Hyles. They’re all gone now and their spiritual descendants are holding on by their fingertips. The young people are attracted to the mega-churches, the middle-aged are maturing and no longer want to hear screaming from the pulpits, and old ones are dying off.
Of the three above, the only one I have a little respect for is Jerry Falwell, who led the fight against abortion when others threw in the towel.
 
JustaServant said:
Even among IFBs he’s small.
There were three branches of IFB at one time, all associated with the leaders. Bob Jones, Jerry Falwell, and Jack Hyles. They’re all gone now and their spiritual descendants are holding on by their fingertips. The young people are attracted to the mega-churches, the middle-aged are maturing and no longer want to hear screaming from the pulpits, and old ones are dying off.
Of the three above, the only one I have a little respect for is Jerry Falwell, who led the fight against abortion when others threw in the towel.
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You’re not really wrong, but this kind of demographic is hardly nonexistent. I have been handed Chick tracts by Bob Jones students, I know megachurchhoers who are very much into Chick tracts, etc. In general, even aside from Jack Chick, anti-Catholicism is alive and well and I am exposed to it regularly through my social network.
 
I remember in my evangelical protestant days going to the Christian book store and seeing the chick tracts there. I remember being terrified by them because of their graphic and extreme nature. I generally just tried to ignore them and not think about them. I never used them in practice.
 
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