Epic Chick Tracts

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I used to work with someone who would periodically ask me if I was a good Catholic or a good Christian, and then laugh as if it was some sort of brilliant joke…

Maybe she was a Chick lit reader. And the last time she asked me I let my annoyance show and told her if she read the authentic bible instead of the man-made one with some other king’s name on it she would know better than to ask such a question. She stopped laughing then and actually listened. I actually felt bad for her because while she was proud of the fact that she could recite a few Biblical passages, she was totally unfamiliar with - for instance - Romans 11, and could not explain its meaning to me.

These teachable moments do happen from time to time, with a lot of reliance on God’s gift of patience through grace.
 
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Of all the Chick tracts, that one is the most insulting in my mind. I can deal with the other one’s and laugh at them at times.
 
Chick was a foul, foul, deeply warped man! He reminds me of the late NAZI publisher of virulently anti-Semitic literature, Julius Streicher, who was executed at Nuremberg in 1946 for crimes against humanity.

Stuart
 
That one about the cookie was really bad. What disgusted me, among many things, was the implication of what IHS stood for.
 
I found that really odd, especially since Chick hung out with Rivera, and remember Rivera was allegedly made a priest and then a bishop, secretly. If that was true, Chick would have known what those letter stood for. Of course, that wasn’t true.
 
I once read “Death Cookie” was one of the most popular Chick Tracts.
 
By the way, I found a bunch of Chick tracts at a Mexican restaurant last year. I actually left a review on Yelp mentioning that very fact. My mother went back to said Mexican restaurant, and the guy said that he threw them out. Apparently what happened, is people were saying that they were leaving religious items, but without telling them what they were. The restaurant just thought they were something from a church like inviting them to come or something. The manager didn’t know what they were, but as soon as he saw my review, he threw them out, and he told the people that were leaving them there, that they were not welcome to put them there again. He had never read them, so he didn’t know what they were about. He was very angry when he found out what they were, considering he’s Catholic. I don’t mean they were in the bathroom, I mean they were actually on a shelf toward the front of the restaurant.
 
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I found that really odd, especially since Chick hung out with Rivera, and remember Rivera was allegedly made a priest and then a bishop, secretly. If that was true, Chick would have known what those letter stood for. Of course, that wasn’t true.
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It’s Jack Chick. I’m sure he would say the letters really meant whatever he thought, and that the official explanation was made up as a cover story.

Dark Dungeons is rather popular in D&D circles. Most of us are still trying to figure out how to get our magic powers from them. I’ve been DMing pretty consistently for a number of years and the only power I’ve gotten is a good evil laugh.
 
Perhaps it’s because I’m in the largely irreligious UK but I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen a Chick tract IRL. I’ve come across them online but never an actual one.

Must be said, at one time I did believe a lot of things about Catholicism which although they never reached a Chick-level of weird, they were certainly odd enough. Had I come across these at that time chances are I wouldn’t be here.
 
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I have found a lot of people that unfortunately do take them seriously. And, these are not uneducated people that are taking them seriously. These are often times people with a college education. I don’t necessarily mean Bob Jones University either. There’s something in it that resonates with some folks, and I just don’t know what it is, I think it might be a built-in mistrust of Catholicism. But then that begs the question, why do former Catholics take them seriously when they should know better more than anyone?
 
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I have found a lot of people that unfortunately do take them seriously
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My in-laws sure took those things seriously, and they left some of those around our house, They even mailed them to me when I was overseas along with long letters on how I was damned.
 
I would ask them what evidence that they have that I’m damaged.
 
Depends on what you mean by “former Catholic.” A lot of the ones I was most familiar with were often poorly catechized. Or their families left when they were small children, and they never learned beyond a child’s understanding of the faith.
 
I did ask them that question and got the rapid fire bible verse routine. It is all a moot point now as they have all passed away.
 
Well, it seems they were worried about your soul so that’s one thing. They may have been wrong, but they were wrong for the right reasons.
 
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Catholics take them seriously when they should know better more than anyone?
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One word: catechesis.

The only possible way a Catholic would fall victim to the Chick trap would be if they were poorly catechized… yet the fact that thousands of Catholics have fallen to Chick is proof alone that the Church has a major problem with catechesis.

It is unacceptable as to how many Catholics are so poorly catechized.
 
I suspect some of those who left the Church and believed these tracts actually grew up with the Baltimore Catechism. Especially those now in their seventies and eighties.
 
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