Jack Chick--What Can Be Done?

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Hi everyone, I agree the Chick tracts are sick, the Fundamentalists pass these things out like candy. My kids have even gotten them while trick or treating. The anti-Catholic ones are just sick. When I first read them I became angry, but then I read the Catholic Answers Special report on them and found it very helpful I recommend it to anyone who wants to look into this fellow and his lies about our religion. I personally think his work may be an act of the devil (just my opinion). I think somone needs to start up an apostlate of Catholic tracts that can rival theirs. Catholic Answers has good tracts but I wish they sold them individually, so we could buy as many of one title as we can. If anyone knowes of any good places I could get Catholic tracts let me know. Thanks!:tiphat:
 
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I think somone needs to start up an apostlate of Catholic tracts that can rival theirs. Catholic Answers has good tracts but I wish they sold them individually, so we could buy as many of one title as we can. If anyone knowes of any good places I could get Catholic tracts let me know.
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If you’ll scroll up to my previous post, you’ll find someone has done just that. 🙂 Here’s the link again:

grottopress.org/Tracts/tracts.html
 
In the past year I have recieved a Jack Chick tract in the mail anonymously. Apparently whoever sent it was going through the phone book to get addresses, because only my first initial was used as it is in the phone book.
 
I used to attend a Fundamentalist church that promoted those little comics. I remember that Mr. Chick always portrayed the USSR as the Anti-Christ, and Armageddon as being between the US and the USSR.

hmmmm… he didn’t quite get that one right, did he?
 
Fidelis,

I checked out your link and those tracts lacked that sinister wackiness we have all come to love in Chick tracts. I didn’t see any demons or devils. There was no worldwide conspiracy, no whore of Babylon, no Babylonian anything!

We Catholics have much to learn on how to belittle others; mixing partial truth with lies, developing questionable history and propping up crack-pot witnesses.

But at least we have our sense of humor. Right?
 
pnewton,

Teddy Kennedy has done a pretty good job doing all the things you describe.
 
I think one of the ironies is that Jack Chick tracts brought me to the Catholic Church. During my late period as an Evangelical, I’ve doubted the church’s answers and its interpretation. One of the major blows is during a boring sermon, I read the book of James and suddenly, one passage hits me: “See how a person is justified by works and not BY FAITH ALONE”(James 2:24). Yet I tried to be loyal with my old church, until I read the Jack Chicks tracts, then I decided: “Do I want to follow something as nonsense as this, or follow a religion that could satisfy all my desires?”

I guess that’s where my conversion began, so though ironical, I’d have to say “Thanks Chicks”
 
seeker63 said:
I’ve never seen any religious tracts distributed quite as much as the Jack Chick ones. They’re very attractive to children, with their cartoon format. But I don’t know as I’ve seen any material as hateful and intolerant this side of white supremacist stuff and the ravings of the Rev.Fred Phelps.

How can we counter this anti-Catholic misinformation campaign? I mean, they have one tract on the Eucharist called “The Death Cookie”!!!
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get some catholic pamphlets from www.tanbooks.com and distibue them yourself
 
I really would love to have the one called “The Death Cookie”. I think that is hilarious! Frankly though I didn’t think anyone but a few of the craziest fundamentalists actually promoted the Chick Tracts anyway though, and any who do likely aren’t going to be convinced of anything else anyway, so there’s little point in getting too upset over the tracts.
 
Blacksword said:
I really would love to have the one called “The Death Cookie”. I think that is hilarious! Frankly though I didn’t think anyone but a few of the craziest fundamentalists actually promoted the Chick Tracts anyway though, and any who do likely aren’t going to be convinced of anything else anyway, so there’s little point in getting too upset over the tracts.
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Oh, I am not upset over them. I just thoroughly enjoy seeing his junk destroyed.
 
It would be nice to do things to get the Truth out, but we should not worry excessively over Jack Chick and the like.
Matt 13:
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He proposed another parable to them. “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed in his field.
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While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off.
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When the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well.
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The slaves of the householder came to him and said, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where have the weeds come from?’
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He answered, ‘An enemy has done this.’ His slaves said to him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’
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He replied, ‘No, if you pull up the weeds you might uproot the wheat along with them.
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Let them grow together until harvest; then at harvest time I will say to the harvesters, “First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles for burning; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
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Alan
 
Blacksword said:
I really would love to have the one called “The Death Cookie”. I think that is hilarious! Frankly though I didn’t think anyone but a few of the craziest fundamentalists actually promoted the Chick Tracts anyway though, and any who do likely aren’t going to be convinced of anything else anyway, so there’s little point in getting too upset over the tracts.
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“The Death Cookie” is not hilarious. It is insulting, blasphemous, and full of lies and half truths. I started to read it online several years ago and could only get through the first few pages before I gave up in disgust. No one has to believe what Catholic believe, if they don’t want to, but no one should be allowed to trash our faith like that, in the name of “free speech”.
 
Catholic1954 said:
“The Death Cookie” is not hilarious. It is insulting, blasphemous, and full of lies and half truths. I started to read it online several years ago and could only get through the first few pages before I gave up in disgust. No one has to believe what Catholic believe, if they don’t want to, but no one should be allowed to trash our faith like that, in the name of “free speech”.
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Maybe “laughable” would be a closer term than “hilarious” afa I’m concerned, but it cannot disturb my peace unless I let it. Christ died to give me His peace, and I believe I am to accept it unconditionally. If a person like this takes away my peace, then I don’t think I really received the peace of Christ to begin with.

Yes, it is nothing but trashing Catholic teachings, but I believe that in this country, it is and should be allowed due to the reality (not just in name of) freedom of speech. I am just as protected by saying I think the guy is skating on thin ice and making lots of enemies by writing these things. But should he have the freedom to do that? Well, the only way he wouldn’t have that freedom is if the law were to forcibly prevent him from speaking his mind. Therefore, if we try to silence this guy because we believe he has abused his right to free speech, then we must accept that the only way to stop him is with threats and/or carrying out any of the following: seizing his property, locking him up, and doing so under threat of deadly force. That, IMO, is not the most strategic way for Christians to try to win over their enemies. We would have sympathizers with Jack Chick, sending him donations to fight legal battles against the church, government, or whoever else tried to silence him.

Also please note my previous post about letting the weeds grow with the crop. I think that’s more the way Christ would have us handle the situation.

Oh yes, and we are instructed to love our enemies. To me, that means that even though I may despise what he does, I still want what’s best for him. I don’t wish him ill; I just wish he’d quit publishing lies. You never know – he could end up doing a Saul-to-Paul conversion. Everything is possible with God. Let’s not get in His way by using force in His name.

Alan
 
jmm08 said:
If you can’t beat 'em – join 'em. I think somebody should make some good Roman Catholic tracts. I wouldn’t say to bash the protestants – just make sure and put out the Roman Catholic Christian doctrine and dogma.
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I agree - that’s the idea 🙂

Only don’t duplicate the Chick “style” too closely or you’ll get sued. There should be a way of strongly hinting his style, and then turning up the idiocy. Show how reasonable Catholic claims and doctrines are when contrasted to Chick’s.

Another thing to do if resources permit is short video skits or animated/cartoon productions based on Chick’s homey little scenarios, again turning up the absurdity level so that people, even if they don’t end up converting to Catholicism, will see the utter ridiculousness of Chick’s inane claims.
 
dream_wanderer said:
I don’t remember any anti-Catholic ones…but I do remember that those things used to scare me to death as a child. I avoid them like the plague,

I live in the Bible Belt and I can honestly say I haven’t seen one in years.

dream wanderer
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Back when I was in grammar school (Holy Trinity School - Perth Amboy, NJ) There was a Christian book store across the street from the school. The owner of the store would hand them out to us kids as we were leaving school in the afternoon (This was back in the 1960s). I remember giving one of them to the nun that was my teacher at the time, asking her why a christian book would say such bad things about another christian religion? I remember that we were told not to go in that store any more after that. After that. the store owner used to put big signs up in the windows that said something like “Catholics are not Christians”, and “Catholics worship Satan”. The store closed about a year later.
 
The best thing we can do is know our faith and whe we see these tracts just ignore them or throw them away if we can
 
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