The Nightmare World of Jack T. Chick /// in Paperback

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Anyone read it yet ? Reviews

Has Chick reviewed it and responded ?
 
Never read it. I never liked Chick even as a fundamentalist.

Chick I’m sure is drawing a cartoon response.😃
 
I think this web site has an apologetic paper called that. I think it would be easy enough to find. I haven’t heard of a book by that name coming out. But I’m very behind the times these days. I’m not sure if Chick repsonds to it. He already has several anti-Catholic tracts out already. He makes me sick. I know we aren’t suppose to hate people, but love our neighbors, but I’m finding it awfully hard to do that. The same thing applies to our local wart Fred Phelps.
 
Is this just the article by J. Akin published on paper or is it expanded?
 
There is full text in the tract The Nightmare World of Jack T. Chick right here on the catholic.com website. It is awesome and informative and it exposes the lies and scandal and criminal activity behing Chick and the others who worked on the horrible comics.

I wish they would put out a tract exposing Alexander Hislop or Lorrainne Botner (sp).
 
Interesting…would love to read it. I had never heard of him until in college someone put a tract on my window shield of my car. I was so disturbed by it and shocked at the hatred of the Catholic church. However, Jack Chick got me into high gear and made me re-convert and re-committ to my faith. So, I hope God has mercy on him…Jack Chick actually brought me TO my faith better. God truly uses negatives to turn into positives.
 
I really feel sorry for those who believe his ****. I was once one of them. In 1988 I came across his anti–Catholic stuff. Not knowing anything about Catholicism, I actually believed it. But I’m glad that God was there to lead me to the truth. It took him a few years, but I finally got there. Well, I have the truth that I understand, and that which I’m still learning.
 
Christy_Beth said:
I really feel sorry for those who believe his ****. I was once one of them. In 1988 I came across his anti–Catholic stuff. Not knowing anything about Catholicism, I actually believed it. But I’m glad that God was there to lead me to the truth. It took him a few years, but I finally got there. Well, I have the truth that I understand, and that which I’m still learning.
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Evil tends to work like that: It unwillingly leads people to good.
 
I find it hard to believe that Chick & his hate filled rants & spewing even manage to find an audience these days given the overwhelming PC of tolerance that is regurgitated so often in the halls of Congress, Universities & Churches.

But I guess the need to denigrate & demean those that support Christ’s Church is a required mandate among many Pro-test-ants. They need to raise themselves up by standing on the bodies of their vanquished foes.

Jack Chick & his moronic diatribes ( & those of this fellow travelers) have long been discredited & disproved. In short, don’t bother to fill your mind with such trash lest you contract a sickness unto death.

Peace in Christ & let us Pray one for another.
 
A reading of history shows that, no matter how ruthless the conflict, mankind honors forthrightness and honesty even in adversaries. Manfred von Richthofen, the greatest ace of World War I, painted his Fokker tri plane bright red, as if to say, “Here I am, your adversary; I come to differ with you.” He brought down eighty Allied pilots, yet his enemies honored him when he himself fell. One can guess how his personal history would read if he had carried French or English colors on his wings in combat.
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Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen was “The Red Baron”, he was an honored enemy.
Give us an enemy who flies his own colors clearly, and we will honor him, but never one who seems to come along beside us, while secretly seeking our destruction.
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There are many ecumenical Catholics who extend the hand of ecumenism to certain “nice” religions.

Jack Chick, Alexander Hislop and others who make no bones about their stance are not treated so kindly.
 
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Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen was “The Red Baron”, he was an honored enemy. . . .]

There are many ecumenical Catholics who extend the hand of ecumenism to certain “nice” religions.

Jack Chick, Alexander Hislop and others who make no bones about their stance are not treated so kindly.
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A stance which permits them to use lies, half-truths and vile distortions is not a stance that would afford them “honored enemy” status.
 
brb2 said:
Anyone read it yet ? Reviews

Has Chick reviewed it and responded ?
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I got the local Christian book store to stop selling Chick Tracks. They will still order them for people but they no longer stock them on their shelves.
 
imkingdad said:
I find it hard to believe that Chick & his hate filled rants & spewing even manage to find an audience these days given the overwhelming PC of tolerance that is regurgitated so often in the halls of Congress, Universities & Churches.
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Well, they look like comic books and they are given out by some, to my knowledge few, evangelical churches. So, there are children who read his stuff because the parents assume that a church wouldn’t give out something bad. I read many of them as a kid, because they were free, and my mom never even knew what was in them. BTW: We used to laugh at them. My band would often yuck it up to his ones about how Rock and Roll will damn you to hell before our rehearsals.
But I guess the need to denigrate & demean those that support Christ’s Church is a required mandate among many Pro-test-ants. They need to raise themselves up by standing on the bodies of their vanquished foes.
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I think it is important to realize that Chick is not only anti-Catholic the man is nearly anti-everything. He has written tracts against role-playing games, rock -n- roll, and television just to name a few. If you inform yourself about the other issues he’s, fallaciously, spoken against you’ll have a very easy time convincing just about anyone that the man is crazy.
 
MercyMia said:
There is full text in the tract The Nightmare World of Jack T. Chick right here on the catholic.com website. It is awesome and informative and it exposes the lies and scandal and criminal activity behing Chick and the others who worked on the horrible comics.

I wish they would put out a tract exposing Alexander Hislop or Lorrainne Botner (sp).
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ISTM That one of the difficulties with putting out a tract about Hislop’s book is that the book’s argument, and its foundations, need to be dismantled - it’s written in such a way that any one sentence often includes incidental remarks which themselves need to be looked at. For example:​

From TTB 6 section 1:
  • The Pope now pretends to supremacy in the Church as the successor of Peter, to whom it is alleged that our Lord exclusively committed the keys of the kingdom of heaven.
So far - so clear; but then he continues:
  • But here is the important fact that, till the Pope was invested with the title, which for a thousand years had had attached to it the power of the keys of Janus and Cybele, * no such claim to pre-eminence, or anything approaching to it, was ever publicly made on his part, on the ground of his being the possessor of the keys bestowed on Peter.
And*** that*** needs to be researched; even worse, he has many things to say about both Janus & Cybele, so those references also need to be verified, and the arguments he makes looked at. :o The star in the quotation refers to this footnote:
  • *** It was only in the second century before the Christian era that the worship of Cybele, under that name, was introduced into Rome; but the same goddess, under the name of Cardea, with the “power of the key,” was worshipped in Rome, along with Janus, ages before. OVID’s Fasti.**
Which means that has to be researched. All of which means checking his references. So a single comment can make a lot of work; a tract could not possibly include all this - tracts are fine for pictures, but pictures are often hopeless for conveying ideas. Although Chick uses a fair amount of Hislop’s book, he is not much good at explaining the fine details behind Hislop’s conclusions. If one knows what the basis is for Hislop’s ideas about Nimrod, one can look at them, and at their (rather shaky) foundations: Chick simply introduces Nimrod to his readers - which means that Hislop’s ideas can’t be seen and analysed. If they could, perhaps Chick’s popularisation of Hislop would find fewer readers to believe in it.

The stuff about the god Seb being part of an Egyptian Trinity with Isis & Horus, & therefore the (supposed) origin of IHS on Hosts, would be less impressive if the reading of the name as Seb were known to have been replaced by the reading Geb. But how many of Chick’s readers, or Hislop’s, know that it has 😦 ?

Hislop was credible when he wrote in a way he is not now, because the study of both Ancient Mesopotamia & Ancient Egypt was in its infancy; he was in some ways very up-to-date. So he could say things that would be ludicrous now. How would that rather important fact be explained in a tract ?🤷

Sorry for not giving a link - I don’t like publicising TTB…

BTW - there are some sites that modernise Hislop: Mike Scheifler does on his.
 
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