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Mine too! There are no words for how hard this one makes me laugh.

They crack me up. Especially when I'm handed one, I get this look in my face and I scream "OMFG! YEAH! I DONT HAVE THIS ONE YET"

My poor headship has learned that embarrassment is common when you're hanging out with me....

Love it. The link is already on my Facebook wall, just for my D&D playing partner. He goes every Tuesday night, s I'm expecting him to manifest some real occult power now after investing all that time. Why is he still working as an accountant if he could be a mighty sorcerer?

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I've just spent far too long looking at the Chick site.

What world do these people live in? Demons on every shoulder trying to drag people to hell if their grandmothers don't pray hard enough to save them? Magic and witches and conspiracies and parents beating and raping their children and feeding them beer to make them join them in alcoholism? Violent death being seen as a good thing if it leads to a death bed conversions?

Hell is the inside of these people's heads.

ETA - And they actually recommend handing this filth to children on the street. If someone handed my children this hate filled propaganda I would call the police. I just have no words......

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It's interesting that "Doom Town" makes no effort to sugarcoat Lot's offering his daughters up to be gang-raped.

Also interesting that when Lot's story is told in Birds and the Bees, it's not simply condensed (which is legit as it's a reference within a different story) but the Sodomites are rather vaguely trying 'to do nasty things to the angels'. B&B is definitely kid-oriented; I can see it being handed to the little darlings to take to school.

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:lol:

This one's my favourite so far: http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0034/0034_01.asp

A christian rock band signs a contract with Lew Siffer and before you know it, Bobby died of AIDS, Jim O.D.'d and Don is into vampirism.

I quoted this one the other day to my brother in a music store. "We're gonna Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock with the ROCK!" :music-rockon::music-rockon: I can see why the band became famous.

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What world do these people live in? Demons on every shoulder trying to drag people to hell if their grandmothers don't pray hard enough to save them? Magic and witches and conspiracies and parents beating and raping their children and feeding them beer to make them join them in alcoholism?
Until a pure blonde Christian gives them a tract! Then (cue porn music...) "I've come to fix the pipes!" "Better... come in then...""Jesus died to save you." "OMG I never heard that, living in a predominantly Christian society, so I immediately believe you! What must I do?
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Also, this one kinda screams "lie!!!"

Really? You give a tract to every patient and you havne't been fired yet? I don't believe it.

Absolutely (healthcare professional here; once would get you fired at every hospital I have worked in).

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Tellingly, the little girl who the tract is named after only appears in one panel and says one word, regarding her parents new-found morals- "Really?"

I rather like the panel in which the husband comes home all a-twitter from his conversion, tells his wife that something wonderful just happened, and she drily asks "You got a job?"

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They crack me up. Especially when I'm handed one, I get this look in my face and I scream "OMFG! YEAH! I DONT HAVE THIS ONE YET"

Now I'm picturing some FJers like kids with baseball cards, trading to complete their collections - "Got it. Got it. Need it. Got it. Need it."

Gee, I wonder if collections of Chick Tracts will be discussed on Pawn Stars or American Pickers someday.

:lol:

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I'm also a collector of 'magic prayer cloths'. There are several mail order ministries that send you these paper pictures of Jesus with instructions on how to look in his eyes and receive your blessings. I prefer the ones from St. Mathews churches because they include several pages of rants and their prayer 'cloth' is an 11x14 which is perfect for wrapping smaller gifts.

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The one about the dangers of playing Dungeons and Dragons. It claims, with all seriousness, that when your character reaches 8th level you will be able to cast real spells.

All I gotta say is if that were true, a HELL of a lot more people would be playing D&D!!

You can read it for yourself: http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.ASP

Like all gamers, I love that one. I always wanted a shirt that said "I reached level 8 and all I got was this lousy t-shirt."

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Chick tracts creep me the fuck out. I'm not sure why, but reading them makes me feel so grimy and violated. I have no idea how they could possibly convince anybody of anything.

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Chick tracts creep me the fuck out. I'm not sure why, but reading them makes me feel so grimy and violated. I have no idea how they could possibly convince anybody of anything.

I know how you feel. I find them amusing, but I do feel gross after reading them. I have a large collection in my library and a guest discovered them during a party and passed them around. Everyone was appalled and had a hard time believing they weren't a joke; none of them had been exposed to American fundie propaganda before.

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I'm also a collector of 'magic prayer cloths'. There are several mail order ministries that send you these paper pictures of Jesus with instructions on how to look in his eyes and receive your blessings. I prefer the ones from St. Mathews churches because they include several pages of rants and their prayer 'cloth' is an 11x14 which is perfect for wrapping smaller gifts.

HA! I get one of those at LEAST once a month! My headship refers to it as "the Geebus placemat"

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I'm also a collector of 'magic prayer cloths'. There are several mail order ministries that send you these paper pictures of Jesus with instructions on how to look in his eyes and receive your blessings. I prefer the ones from St. Mathews churches because they include several pages of rants and their prayer 'cloth' is an 11x14 which is perfect for wrapping smaller gifts.

I've started getting these the mail!! Hilarious part is my husband is the one who actually gets them but he always leaves them on my desk, knows I'll want to check them out and possibly use them in collages or something :)

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Until a pure blonde Christian gives them a tract! Then (cue porn music...) "I've come to fix the pipes!" "Better... come in then...""Jesus died to save you." "OMG I never heard that, living in a predominantly Christian society, so I immediately believe you! What must I do?

This has nothing to do with Chick Tracks, but it reminded me of a fb status I saw this morning. So a fundie friend of my SiL wrote that a little boy came up to her and asked who Jesus was.... now this is on day three of Vacation Bible School -- in rural south georgia. I don't believe it for a second that a kid in that town has gotten to the age of 5+ without hearing about Jesus. You can't swing a cat in that town without hitting three IFB churches.

Carry on.

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I've started getting these the mail!! Hilarious part is my husband is the one who actually gets them but he always leaves them on my desk, knows I'll want to check them out and possibly use them in collages or something :)

They are a gold mine of snark. I cut the rants apart and make greeting cards. I just love fundy ephemera.

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I got "the poor revolutionist" in the casino bathroom this weekend. It was obviously meant for JFC!

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The D&D one reminds me of a really bad movie from the early 80's, Mazes and Monsters, about the dangers of role playing games. Extra awesome is a super-young Tom Hanks :lol

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My favorite Chick-related thing is the MST3k version of Dark Dungeons:

http://www.humpin.org/mst3kdd/

(For those who aren't familiar, Mystery Science Theater 3000 was a show where a human and two puppets sat in front of a movie screen and snarked on bad movies. It's only natural that someone used them to snark on Chick.)

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They are just so versatile. I like to mount a whole tract (it takes two of the same tract) on some heavy weight paper and laminate them for place mats. They make great gifts :lol: Single panels make fun refrigerator magnets, or you can cover switch plates in a mini collage of the lake of fire. I buy some every year.

You need to start a store selling your handiwork. I'd buy some magnets!

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Maybe not my favorite, but I used "This Was Your Life" in teaching catechism to a bunch of Lutheran confirmands not long ago. The lesson was about being saved by God's grace, not your works; and the Chick tract (which I had picked up in an elevator in a medical office building a few months ago) was all about a dude going to hell because he had not done all the right things here on Earth. The art in these things is so dumb, the worst kind of comic strip art. In this particular one the guy is buried, then an angel takes him to heaven where God reviews his life, then has the angel look to see if his name is written in the Book of LIfe. Natch, it is not, so he is doomed to be hurled down a chute into the dreaded Lake of Fire.

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I'm also a collector of 'magic prayer cloths'. There are several mail order ministries that send you these paper pictures of Jesus with instructions on how to look in his eyes and receive your blessings. I prefer the ones from St. Mathews churches because they include several pages of rants and their prayer 'cloth' is an 11x14 which is perfect for wrapping smaller gifts.

I sent one of those to my best friend when he was in Iraq because I thought it was hysterical.

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I was so excited to come home last week and find a chick tract in my door! It is "This Was Your Life". Not the best, but classic Chick. You can send off for a sample assortment for 12.95. Love the idea of "altared" art with fundie ephemera!! :lol:

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