Rev. Erudite Redneck, B.S., B.S., M.A., M.Div.

I collect Chick Tracts I find in airport bathrooms, rest area bathrooms, restaurant bathrooms - are you seeing a pattern? - and I find them all absolutely hilarious. I can't wait to find this one sitting on a tank off I-80/90 in Ohio somewhere. Someday I plan on opening a Chick Tract Museum, with all sorts of evidence to the point that he provided many of us with a good laugh.
 

Ha. I get to walk past a wall rack of them in a nearby Baptist church that is my polling place.
 

Now that's just sad. Sad and pathetic.

By the way, E.R., the public library blocks your blog as being an adult site with inappropriate content. Congratulations! I am sure it's because you posted a Chick tract!
 

The TV reporter's really creepy.
 

The dang fairy on the cover might give me nightmares!

Trixie, it must be 'cause of the "adult themes" I write about all the time. You know, paying bills, selling a house, going to work, moving to a new city, stuff like that. :-)

(Name the 1980s-era source of that notion!)
 

Dadgum storms! Adios!
 

This weather is driving me nuts. Storm over, for now.
 

Good grief!
 

Storms back. Arrrgghhh! No, wait. It's gone. No -- it's back. Aaaaeeeiiiirrggh!
 

Storm? I don't even see a cloud in the sky.

Oh, wait. I'm seven hours northeast of ya. :-)
 

Hmm, if that represents an average American kid then, I’m sorry guys, your nation’s child-rearing skills are totally f**ked up. You’d also probably better get onto DC Comics and the Children’s Television Workshop and get mental health warnings and reality disclaimers put up on Superman, Sesame Street, etc.!!
 

You guys believe in every fairy tale that comes along execpt the one that will save your soul.
God Bless you all,
I hope you change your ways in time!
 

Anon, the Bible isn't a fairy tale ... which is what your poorly worded comment implied. Other than Liam, I don't know anyone who comments on this blog who doesn't believe in God. Frankly, your comment confused me. Oh, I got the tone -- you disapprove of them making fun of the heavy-handed Chick Tracts -- but the rest is unclear. I'm sure, however, that your comment was meant only in the spirit of loving Christian brotherhood and not a judgmental attack.
 

My favorite Chick Tract concerned a man who had died without having accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior. He stood before the throne of God, while they both sat and watched his life unroll, as if watching a movie. The man became increasingly ashamed of his life - drugs, sex, I think Satan worship was in there, too - and begged God for mercy. God refused to budge; like Ebert and Roper, he gave a big "thumbs down" to the movie of the man's life. To change the metaphor a bit, the final panel was like something from American Idol, with God as Simon Cowell; the man is seen wandering off to the flames of hell, head in hands, as demons await his arrival with apparent glee. I found this in the restroom of a rest area on NY State Route 17 in 1989. I wish now I had saved it, and others I found in that same rest area.

If you have encountered these little Comics for Christ, share your favorites with us.
 

Wow! Takes a lot to rile up Tech!

Geoff: That would be "This is Your Life" - -or maybe it was "This was Your Life."

I used to have 'em all. Plus the comic books. Including the one on thre occult, which showed a yojng hippie girl stumbling along the side of the road munchin' on human fingers!

Man, even when i was a kid I thought: These are funnier than they are serious.

You can see all of 'em at www.chick.com
 

I have never heard or seen these before! These are wild! I went to the website and checked it out a bit. I think the concept is sound, but the application leaves a bit to be desired. I believe the expression "over the top" applies here. Definitely too "hard sell". But I would have to say that those who might have been turned away from Chrst because of them weren't leaning that way anyway, most likely. I would expect that every technique has run off a few, so "win some, lose some".
 

Oh, man, that means Jack Chick's goal of world domination of truck stop and convenience store restrooms is not yet complete.
 

"But I would have to say that those who might have been turned away from Chrst because of them weren't leaning that way anyway, most likely. I would expect that every technique has run off a few, so "win some, lose some".

Marshall, Marshall, Marshall. You miss the point, my friend.
1. Jack Chick never saved anyone. That's God's job.
2. Regarding Jack's technique: See the Alberto Rivera controversy, his false historical claims regarding Halloween, etc. Jack has told blatant falsehoods in many of his tracts. Can God's words be wrapped in lies? To my knowledge, he has never repented from these sins.
3. What is Jack's fruit: love? patience? kindness? gentleness? self control...Do these tracts convey the Good News of God's love? Or do they contain the views of someone clearly paranoid (See his interview with Jimmy Akin on Jimmy's blog.)
4. The most troubling aspect of Chick's tracts is a false portrayal of God's character: God as a faceless, robotic character sitting on his throne outstretching his finger to send the terrified to their eternal destination. In other tracts, he portrays Jesus as a kind of defense attorney who gets in the way of a God eager to obliterate us. The Bible says, to see Jesus is to see God. And, in Jesus, God became one of us, showing us he is came not to condemn the world, but to bring abundant life. I would argue that Chick portrays a different god entirely.
 

Luke 15:3-7:
Then Jesus told them this parable: "Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, 'Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.' I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent. Luke 15:3-7.

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The love of God for humanity is about as far from "win some, lose some" as you could get.
 

Anonymous speaks wisely. Marhall is just keeping score.
 

Hehe... actually I think the Westboro Baptists would disagree with you; apparently "God hates the world and all her people."

I thought it was somebody satirising them until I found this!
 

mpossible to satirize Fred Phelps et al.
 

Interesting to note that Fred's "church" mostly consists of his relatives.