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Christy_Beth said:
Hashem,
I apologize for anything I’ve done that might have added to the problem you mentioned. I can’t speak for others, but I think a lack of knowlege is often the problem. People think they know someone else’s faith, not realizing that they really don’t know anything about it.

As far as Jack Chick, would you believe that some actually accept what he says as gospel truth? I know of one woman that does. As far as I’m concerned, I can only pray for people like her. From what she has said about other things she believes, I’ve gotten to the point of thinking her faith as “gutter trash.” I’ve never said this to her, and I doubt I ever will. If I do, it will be from God and not from me.
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I’m on Jack Chick’s mailing list (I’m on the mailing lists of a lot of religious organizations; its part of my need to keep up on what’s happening in the world of religion, as an exit counselor.)

I have to say, I think he’s in this for the $$$. He’s got megachurches and smaller churches, buying his stuff in bulk to hand out.

Maybe I’m cynical, or maybe I’ve just worked in exit work for too long (helping people who were involved in cults and other nonJewish religions), but I’ve seen a LOT of religious groups that are in it for the money.

Rush Limbaugh always said, “When you want to know what really motivates someone, follow the money. And the more they insist its not about the money, the more you can be sure it is.”
 
HashemEchad said:
I’m on Jack Chick’s mailing list (I’m on the mailing lists of a lot of religious organizations; its part of my need to keep up on what’s happening in the world of religion, as an exit counselor.)

I have to say, I think he’s in this for the $$$. He’s got megachurches and smaller churches, buying his stuff in bulk to hand out.

Maybe I’m cynical, or maybe I’ve just worked in exit work for too long (helping people who were involved in cults and other nonJewish religions), but I’ve seen a LOT of religious groups that are in it for the money.

Rush Limbaugh always said, “When you want to know what really motivates someone, follow the money. And the more they insist its not about the money, the more you can be sure it is.”
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L. Ron Hubbard expressed similar sentiments about how to get rich…
 
HashemEchad said:
I have to say, I think he’s in this for the $$$. He’s got megachurches and smaller churches, buying his stuff in bulk to hand out.
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I don’t think so. Did you read Jimmy Aiken’s blog entry about meeting him? He sounds like a sincere, naive, and deeply paranoid man. Do you know he reads CA? I wonder if he lurks the forum or even posts here. The thing about paranoia is it rarely starts as paranoia or at an implausible place. It usually starts with something shocking but within reason and backed by some evidence (a child in X day care has been abused somehere, doctor says), goes on to an urgent discussion in a confusing situation (all the parents meet for ten hours at night in a fluorescent-lighted garage to share all their fears and one mentions that her daughter is drawing pentagrams everywhere.)
Soon fear and suspicion feel socially normal and normative and are emotionally reinforced. Eventually the brain can’t stop triggering that reaction when the person tries and everything looks dangerous and unreal. This is something not all counselors grasp: how primal and universal the tendency to paranoia can be. Like all forms of mind control it can happen to anone and happen without outward signs very quickly. It doesn’t take any particular personality type to get overstimulated that way. People who have lived in combat or in areas with rioting or other emergencies again and again often live a battle aginst paranoid thinking and giving in to it can be paradoxically like letting go, even like relaxing. paranoia is infuriating when one is the target but we are all vulnerable to it at some time.
 
I doubt Jack Chick has ever been born again.

I’ve known one person who thinks these tracts are any good.
I remarked to her that John Paul II was without doubt a man of God, with his heart in Christ. She denied this.
If Chick is anything like her, he wouldn’t know a Christian if he met one.
From thousands of miles away I could feel the love of Christ in that great holy man who has entered the glory of God, blessed be his memory.
God grant that those like Chick see the truth before it is too late. If not may God have pity on them.

God bless you. Anthony
for St Anthony
Hands to Work, Hearts to God
 
Chris_LaRock said:
Cut the guy some slack. He honestly thinks catholicism is wrong and is genuinely concerned for your salvation. I’ve never had a catholic witness to me about why they think non-catholic christianity is wrong.
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Chick claims there are tunnels between monsasteries and convents so they can sneak back and forth and have sex . He also claims those tunnels are full of the skeletons of aborted babies. You are the very first person i have ever met who has defended this man. Makes one wonder what you think about Catholics. Are we saved? Are we Christians? Is the Church the Whore of Babylon?
 
estesbob said:
Chick claims there are tunnels between monsasteries and convents so they can sneak back and forth and have sex . He also claims those tunnels are full of the skeletons of aborted babies. You are the very first person i have ever met who has defended this man. Makes one wonder what you think about Catholics. Are we saved? Are we Christians? Is the Church the Whore of Babylon?
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Jack Chick has copied ideas from anti-Catholics who came before him, without giving due credit (hm, sounds like his deity, who did the same thing once upon a time…)

There is a very old anti-Catholic work called, “My Life in the Convent” by a former nun named Margaret Shepherd, which made the same charge in the 1920s. Looks like he’s read it!

I wonder if he’s also read the even-older Maria Monk book?
 
HashemEchad said:
Jack Chick has copied ideas from anti-Catholics who came before him, without giving due credit (hm, sounds like his deity, who did the same thing once upon a time…)
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I’m not sure what you mean here…
 
HashemEchad said:
Jack Chick has copied ideas from anti-Catholics who came before him, without giving due credit (hm, sounds like his deity, who did the same thing once upon a time…)

There is a very old anti-Catholic work called, “My Life in the Convent” by a former nun named Margaret Shepherd, which made the same charge in the 1920s. Looks like he’s read it!

I wonder if Jack has also read the even-older Maria Monk book?
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That was hysterically funny!! (btw there is profanity used in that parody, not sure if you noticed it. I’m not a prude, but I just thought I’d point it out.)

Hey, what’s everyone’s favorite Chick tract? Mine has got to be “The Death Cookie”. My son cracks up everytime I mention the title of it!

My late friend Joanna (who also collected them) used to like “Hi There!”
 
This misguided man does tremendous harm.
A common theme is that people pray and instantly they are transformed or feel differently.
I haven’t lost count of those who prayed this way, didn’t get this promised result, and concluded that there is no Christ because of it.
For a fortunate few this may indeed happen, but for the rest faith takes time.
When I think of this man I am reminded of Ananias and his wife, or of sarabites.
Forgive my saying it but I think his motto may be “it’s not just a religion - it’s a career”.
I think he is the perfect example of those who think they can be saved by works without faith - and the qualities essential to it.
May God have mercy on him.

God bless you.
 
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For Jacks information druids are part of my own cultural heritage, but NO-ONE knows exactly what they believed as they never wrote anything down as it was believed to degrade the knowledge and memory skills required of the profession. All modern groups who claim to be druids or have connections to their knowledge are spurious to say the best so where Jack is getting his info from I’d love to know.
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He got it from an intriguingly successful yet inept scam artist named John Todd, who claimed to be a something-outrageous-generation witch with the “witchcraft name” of Lance Collins (I was a witch long ago and I never heard of anyone taking a name like Lance Collins for a spiritual handle; maybe he’s got it mixed up and that was his surfing name?) Anyhow, “Lance Collins” went on a whirlwind lecture tour of Evangelical churches around the USA tellling how he was raised as a high-status member of the Illuminati, who he said were Druids going all the way back to ancient days and who he said were putting spells on rock and country songs to take over the country for witchcraft. He was believed widely. He had some kind of hold on audiences. He took a lot of money from these Evangelicals for his “work exposing the conspiracy” and still has followers who weren’t even born when his show was on the road.
He settled down with a bookstore and was arrested for sex crimes. Turns out he was still a witch, though it wasn’t a big organization or a family thing at all. He was a solitary-eclectic trying to make a coven for the form of witchcraft he’d invented. He had trouble keeping his story straight about when he became a Christian, did some time, and fell off the headlines after a while.
 
estesbob said:
Chick claims there are tunnels between monsasteries and convents so they can sneak back and forth and have sex . He also claims those tunnels are full of the skeletons of aborted babies. You are the very first person i have ever met who has defended this man. Makes one wonder what you think about Catholics. Are we saved? Are we Christians? Is the Church the Whore of Babylon?
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We have no way of knowing if those claims are true or not. Maybe there are a few corrupt people in the catholic church who have done those things. It sure doesn’t prove catholicism to be false, but what if those stories are true?
 
vocatio said:
Don’t get me started on Jack Hick. The man is severly twisted to promote such trash. And you cut him slack only feeds the fire. It is all of our Christian duty to distance our self and try our best to stop or educate others the distorted thinking here. Sure it’s laughable it so rediculous. But Most of the folks that buy in to this are not educated and are “weak” of mind.
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What about all of the other tracts he has made that expose the lies of Islam, Mormonism, JWs, New Agers, and the occult? Don’t you think that those tracts have helped people get out of those dangerous groups?
 
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