Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Chick Tract Highlights

Some hilarious, if not disturbing, glimpses into fundamentalist Christianity. Hopefully they will give you a few laughs...

Most everyone has had to awkwardly accept (or awkwardly refuse) one of these tracts at some time or another. They are probably the most widely distributed religious pamphlets in the world (the Chick website claims that 750 million have been sold.) Chick tracts portray a demon-filled world where every paranoid, fundy conspiracy is true, where every minority is part of a satanic agenda. In the Chick world, 90% of the globe's population is under the direct control of dark, mystical forces, which are always lurking in the background and anxiously awaiting the opportunity to prey on the vulnerable in order to create more satanic zombies like them. We are told that to accomplish this, Satan employs such insidious and destructive things as ouija boards, rock music, astrology, the teaching of evolution, homosexuality, communism, and halloween.

So let us now delve into the deep, dark recesses of Jack T. Chick's mind...


And it all starts with Dungeons & Dragons...

Yes, Satan has a pumpkin for a head. Perhaps this is why his memory ain't what it used to be.

What Jack Chick has learned about American Indians

Those poor, discriminated religious folk
are always fending off "militant gays"

Jack Chick's concept of the typical atheist...

So I wonder how dissent is handled in a church...

When he doesn't have a pumpkin on his head, Satan is Leonard Nimoy.


This has been the first installment of Chick Tract Highlights! I have much more material where that came from. Until then, don't let the demons eat your brain!


2 comments:

  1. Jack Chick should be referenced in Critical Thinking courses when they talk about the strawman fallacy.

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