Chick Track Catalogue

[Ossai]

Rant post, I know that there are already a myriad of Chick threads, but I didn’t want this one lost in the shuffle.

In my mail today I received Chick Publications. It’s not just a chick track but their entire catalogue. It not only has all the chick tracks listed but such gems as The Collapse of Evolution by Scott M. Huse and Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged ( 60 min video). The small 63 page catalogue has books denigrating every religion, except of course the one true Chick religion.

Basically I’m flipping through the catalogue.

Take for instance, Let’s Weigh the Evidence; Which Bible is the REAL Word of God? by Barry Burton. The cover illustration is a scale with RSV, ASV, NIV and NEV on one side and KJV on the other. The attention stamp proudly proclaims, ‘Short and sweet! Can be read in one evening!’. Sad to say it’s not the only book offered on the subject. The write-ups of all of that type basically say that the KJV is true because…buy our book and we’ll tell you why, while at the same time attacking anyone that would even question it.

On Catholics:
The Big Betrayal ‘Here is Chiniquy’s dramatic testimony, in a 64-page comic book format. Also shows how the Jesuits were behind the murder of his friend, Abraham Lincoln.’
The anti-catholic section lasts a couple of pages.
Other sections include: Witnessing to teenagers, Books for Mormons/Jehovah’s witnesses, Books on Islam, Disproving Evolution, and then page after page after page of chick tracks.

The whole thing would be laughable except people buy into this $h!#.

Ossai

 

[Brown]

If you really want to be enlightened, sit down with a local mainstream minister and talk about Chick materials. You think you find them offensive! Well, many clergy are outraged by them.

"Burn them," one minister told me, when I showed him some Chick tracks. "Take them out and burn them." This minister wasn't advocating "book-burning" per se; rather he was concerned that I would pass the tracts on to someone else, and he was interested in preventing other people from having their minds poisoned by Chick's crap. I found out that a lot of members of his congregation had asked him about Chick doctrine, and he got very tired of saying, "No, what that tract says is NOT what Christians believe." This minister saw Chick as impeding his work, not aiding it.

Another minister liked to say, "As far as I know, not one soul has ever been saved by a Chick tract."

 

[Yahweh]

I know of nobody who hasnt been outraged or sickened by Chick tracts, his material is hateful garbage.

"Dont forget kiddies, taking evilution and science as 'the Truth' means you are going straight to Hell, repent and have a good day!"

 

[Some Friggin Guy]

I am sad to say that I obviously live in a different part of the country than Brown or Yahweh. I live in Nashville.

Around here, you will find Chick's garbage everywhere from minister's homes to churches to (I kid you not) bars. It seems that this is a very common device used here. As I have said in other threads, I have a neighbour who drops a copy of one in my mailbox on a frighteningly regular schedule.

As for what to do with his stuff, I'd go with the first minister Brown quoted. Burn them.

But, at least be practicle about it.

I save mine up for winter so I don't have to pay for kindling for the fire place.

 

[c4ts]

Not only are chick tracts full of hate speech, has anybody noticed how boring they are? That is, until I get my hands on them...

 

[UnrepentantSinner]

It's a shame that Chick doesn't realize that 1 part submission to 23 parts hate is not a good face to put on your religion.

Clearly Chick Tracts work in some way, otherwise he wouldn't have the industry... er.. ministry he has. As far as the rubes in the States falling for them, it saddens me, but here we have libraries and the Internet so people who want to be truly honest about their research can see how full of s*** he is. Some of the ones in foreign langagues though are going to people who live in villages without electricity much less availible research resources. Those tracts are the ones I really want to burn.

 

[Abdul Alhazred]

Originally posted by UnrepentantSinner Clearly Chick Tracts work in some way, otherwise he wouldn't have the industry... er.. ministry he has. As far as the rubes in the States falling for them, it saddens me, but here we have libraries and the Internet so people who want to be truly honest about their research can see how full of s*** he is.

Speaking of rubes falling for Chick Tracts, it still might be true that no one ever got "saved" with one.

All that's necessary to keep Chick in business is for him to convince already "saved" rubes that the tracts do work. Then "saved" rubes buy them in bulk and annoy other people.

 

[Graham]

If you really want to be enlightened, sit down with a local mainstream minister and talk about Chick materials. You think you find them offensive! Well, many clergy are outraged by them.

"Burn them," one minister told me, when I showed him some Chick tracks. "Take them out and burn them." This minister wasn't advocating "book-burning" per se; rather he was concerned that I would pass the tracts on to someone else, and he was interested in preventing other people from having their minds poisoned by Chick's crap. I found out that a lot of members of his congregation had asked him about Chick doctrine, and he got very tired of saying, "No, what that tract says is NOT what Christians believe." This minister saw Chick as impeding his work, not aiding it.

Another minister liked to say, "As far as I know, not one soul has ever been saved by a Chick tract."

At the same time, much (if not quite all!) comes directly from their beloved bible.

Whether you like it or not, that's what you sign up to if you call yourself a "Christian", IMO.

Graham

 

[a_unique_person]

The Jesuits killed Abe! Why can't they kill Dubya too?

 

[Brown]

A_U_P, I know you're speaking in jest, but you might want to reconsider making that remark, lest someone get the wrong idea.

 

[Psi Baba]

As I have said in other threads, I have a neighbour who drops a copy of one in my mailbox on a frighteningly regular schedule.

Does your neighbor know that is illegal? You should turn him in.

Domestic Mail Manual
D041 Customer Mail Receptacles
1.3Use for Mail Except under 2.11, the receptacles described in 1.1 may be used only for matter bearing postage. Other than as permitted by 2.10 or 2.11, no part of a mail receptacle may be used to deliver any matter not bearing postage, including items or matter placed upon, supported by, attached to, hung from, or inserted into a mail receptacle. Any mailable matter not bearing postage and found as described above is subject to the same postage as would be paid if it were carried by mail.

 

[Some Friggin Guy]

He probably does, but I have never caught him, and frankly, as annoying as it is, it's not really doing me any harm.

Course, when people put the jesus-fish on my car at the mall, that's different (Happened 3 times). Police can't do anything about it and my insurance deductable is too large to even bother, so I have to keep applying touch-up paint after I take the stupid thing off as carefully as possible.

But I digress.

 

[Sandy M]

Oh, Lordy! Am I in trouble? I drop off my rent check in my landlord's mailbox, sans postage.

 

[hgc]

...
Course, when people put the jesus-fish on my car at the mall, that's different (Happened 3 times). Police can't do anything about it and my insurance deductable is too large to even bother, so I have to keep applying touch-up paint after I take the stupid thing off as carefully as possible.

But I digress.

That's some aggressive sh!t. You should put a sign on your car reading, "Attention Jesus freaks: Keep your goddamned stickers off my property!"

 

[Sandy M]

I have yet to figure out that stupid bumper strip they have where the "Darwin" fish is dead and/or being devoured by the "Christ" fish. What? Darwin, a mortal man, died, ergo evolution is wrong? Yeah, that's logical. Guess relativity is invalid since Einstein died.

 

[the_ignored]

Oh yeah?

How about this one?

 

[c4ts]

That's funny for all the wrong reasons.

 

[Abdul Alhazred]

Oh yeah?

A fish with hands? Named Dagon, not Darwin, perhaps?

1 Samuel 5:4

And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.

Another old buddy of mine, by the way.